Con Opera The Fairy Queen Look Book
Check out these lush images from the Conservatorium of Music’s present production Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, on till May 21. Scroll down to see all eight images. Photo credits: Prudence Upton.








Check out these lush images from the Conservatorium of Music’s present production Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, on till May 21. Scroll down to see all eight images. Photo credits: Prudence Upton.








The Sydney Conservatorium of Music is hosting this four-day symposium from 6 to 9 May 2020, Singing and playing in the era of Beethoven. Convened by Professor Neal Peres Da Costa, the theme of this symposium asks “What did singing and instrumental playing sound like in the era of Beethoven?” Contemporary written documentation gives us…
Sydney’s art lovers have been captivated by the six 16th century Flemish tapestries known as The Lady and the Unicorn, on display in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Fashioned from wool and silk and recently cleaned and restored, the lissom blonde woman surrounded by her animal companions and ‘thousands’ of flowers in the…
Australia’s critically acclaimed Orava Quartet returns with a second album on the prestigious global Deutsche Grammophon record label.
Selby & Friends have added a haunting new piece to their YouTube Channel. The Quartet Movement for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello in A Minor by a very young Gustav Mahler performed by Elizabeth Layton (violin), Glen Donnelly (viola), Julian Smiles (cello) and Kathryn Selby (piano) from a 2012 program entitled My Song is Love…
Opera Australia’s presentation of Sydney Opera House – The Opera, originally known as The Eighth Wonder opened on the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House last week. Our reviewer commented “This is a remarkable opera that deserves to be heard and seen more often. From the exotic pyramids of Mexico to the snowy forests of…
The 2014 ARIA Fine Arts Awards were announced earlier today. Congratulations to ABC Classics which won all four of the Fine Arts Awards. The award for Best Classical Album was won by Compassion, a collaboration between composer Nigel Westlake, singer Lior and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Westlake. Compassion is a ‘Symphony of Songs’,…