On the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s ACOHomeCasts this week, cellist Julian Thompson and a mysterious challenger go head to head in a charming performance inspired by Cumberland Gap, a bluegrass favourite by “banjo virtuoso” Adam Hurt.
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Crossroads Chamber Music 2019 festival is in its twelfth year and will be presented by Festival Director Charmian Gadd featuring a brand new string quartet, musicians of international acclaim and a stunning hand-crafted Kawai grand piano – all in a beautiful setting. This musical gem is the best-quality chamber music festival between Sydney and Townsville…
Direct from its Royal Opera House performance, Australian cinemas will screen Tim Albery’s Olivier-nominated production of Wagner’s opera, Der fliegende Holländer, filmed and recorded live in high-definition from the stage of London’s Royal Opera at Covent Garden on 24 February 2015. The opera tells the intense of the intense and dangerous attraction between The Flying Dutchman sung…
The City Recital Hall’s Ensemble – in – Residence, the Omega Ensemble presents a programme of French chamber music with an entertaining twist. In the line-up is Saint-Saëns’ The Carnival of the Animals. which will be narrated by the inimitable Julian Morrow (ABC’s The Chaser). Written by Saint-Saëns in 1886, The Carnival of the Animals is one…
Opera Projects Sydney presents Cantique de Noël, a Christmas Opera Gala featuring the music of Verdi and Puccini. The concert stars sopranos Catherine Bouchier and Anna-Louise Cole, baritone Jose Carbo, tenor Simon Kim, bass Sitiveni Talei and pianist Bradley Gilchrist. Tickets are $25 available at www.theindependent.org.au
The Balmain Sinfonia makes a long-awaited return in June with its second 2013 concert in its newly refurbished home, the Macquarie Theatre at Macquarie University, North Ryde. The centrepiece of the concert is that rarest of beasts, a piece featuring a bass trombone solo – the Rhapsody by American composer Eric Ewazen. The rest of the program includes the popular Waltz from Gounod’s Faust,…
Palace Opera and Ballet presents Jean-Philippe Rameau Rameau’s Les Indes galantes captured live from Opéra Bastille, Paris on 10 Oct 2019. This opera-ballet in four acts with prologue has Leonardo García Alarcón conducting the Orchestre Cappella Mediterranea with Sabine Devieilhe (Hébé/Phani/Zima), Florian Sempey (Bellone/Adario), Julie Fuchs (Émilie/Fatime), Mathias Vidal (Valère/ Tacmas), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Osman/Ali),…