Paris-based jazz singer Hetty Kate, joins flutist Jane Rutter and virtuoso pianist Simon Tedeschi in a concert of French music, Chansons Parisiennes featuring chansons and classical favourites.
Join Jane and her guest artists for lunch after each concert. Purchase a lunch package with your ticket or season subscription.
In its upcoming concert Slow Flipping Harmonies, Sydney based Ensemble Offspring presents the work of the late great avant-gardist Iannis Xenakis in a Sydney pub! Xenakis’ compositions have been described as “music of a truly majestic otherness … an alien shard, glimmering in the heart of the West” (Ben Watson, The Wire). Even after his death, his striking…
‘The most Fantasmagorical stage musical in the history of everything’ opens in Sydney this week! Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the musical about a magic car based on the story by on other than Ian (James Bond) Fleming opens in Sydney this week. Presented by Tim Lawson, the production will be directed by Roger Hodgman. The music…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra with Artistic Director Paul Dyer AO, reunites with Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz’s exciting circus troupe Circa to present Spanish Baroque, a passionate and virtuosic programme that fuses contemporary circus with baroque music. Joining the ensemble for the concert is New Zealand soprano Natasha Wilson, which also features the inimitable sound of the guitar as Italian…
“Meet Fiona Campbell” says the media release. “Venus in voice and form” (Opera-Opera). This mezzo–soprano could have been created by Botticelli – cascading tresses and a goddess gown. Over the page, a complete contrast as she stands arms akimbo. The manicured nails and chandelier earrings prevail, yet the hair is tied back, and Campbell wears a mannish shirt and…
Sydney Independent Opera present an unusual double bill this weekend with its productions of Gustav Holst’s The Wandering Scholar and Puccini’s The Cloak (Il Tabarro). The Wandering Scholar was Holst’s last and most successful opera (he wrote four)*. It is a work in miniature, written in one act for a small orchestra and just four singers (tenor,…
The Palace Gate Orchestra transports you to the grandeur of Russian musical life with its concert on Saturday August 13th. Named after the gates of the magnificent Winter Palace in St Petersburg, home to Russia’s Tsars from 1732 till the revolution in 1917, the orchestra brings you the greats from the Russian repertoire throughout the…