Domingo’s 137th operatic role!
At the age of 70, Placido Domingo takes yet on another new role – Rigoletto! The Australian reports on this interview with the Times of London.
At the age of 70, Placido Domingo takes yet on another new role – Rigoletto! The Australian reports on this interview with the Times of London.
The last days of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart abound in myth and mystery. Writer, broadcaster and lecturer Richard Wigmore unravels the events of Mozart’s final year in Gramophone Magazine.
The eagerly anticipated new staging of Don Giovanni, directed by Sir David McVicar has opened in Sydney. Judging by its enthusiastic reception on opening night, it didn’t disappoint. One of Sydney’s favourite baritones, Teddy Tahu Rhodes reprised his role as the ‘Don’ – and who can forget his explosive, leather clad appearance on stage in the…
Fifteen of the most offbeat works in classical music – can you pick them?! From the baroque to the contemporary these composers thought outside the square in creating these works. Read the feature in Classical-Music.com.
Calling all singing medicos! Expressions of interest are sought from medical students and medical practitioners to form DocsVox – NSW Doctors Choir, a one-off choir which will sing with a doctors orchestra in late 2018 or early 2019. If you love singing but don’t have time for a regular commitment then this exciting project could be…
For The Idea of North, 2013 marks 20 years since they began to compose, arrange and perform music in a style that is quintessentially ‘TION’ and which has taken them not just around the nation but around the world. To mark this milestone, the ARIA award winning a capella quartet is undertaking a national tour…
I admit I was piqued that Melbourninans had the first squizz at Voyage to the Moon when it opened there last week. Here in Sydney, our turn arrives tonight when the production opens at the City Recital Hall. A venture between Musica Viva and Victorian Opera, Voyage to the Moon is a Baroque pastiche – a…