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Director Sir David McVicar sets this grand scale production of Gounod’s Faust for Opera Australia, among the decadence and debauchery of 1870s Paris. The brilliant young Italian conductor Lorenzo Passerini will make his Australian debut, with the soloists, dancers, the Opera Australia Chorus and Orchestra, performing Gounod’s bold and demanding score. This production was first…
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Soprano Jane Sheldon & Acacia Quartet are to give the first Sydney performances from their North + South CD, alongside music by Elena Kats-Chernin and Lyle Chan. Now based in the US, the Australian soprano has forged a strong international career. Her latest recording, North + South, is a contemporary take on ten traditional folk songs, drawing on ‘traditional’ styles. For the Sydney concert, Jane…
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The Balmain Sinfonia concludes its 2014 season with a concert of classics that features a reunion with violinist Susie Park. In 1995, Sydney teenager Susie Park won the Balmain Sinfonia Concerto Competition and the Richard Goldner Award, with her performance of Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2. She went on to play that concerto with the…
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