ENO shuns the big screen
The move to the cinema screen is not for the English National Opera says its artistic director John Berry:
The move to the cinema screen is not for the English National Opera says its artistic director John Berry:
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young AM celebrated the re-opening of the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House with a landmark recording.
The music of Philip Glass is in the spotlight with the ABC Classics release of “Mad Rush” an anthology of his piano music, performed by Sally Whitwell. To talk about minimalism requires perhaps that this page be left blank with just a few pivotal words placed strategically in repetitive patterns ….. Right now though, we use words…
Musica Viva announces the launch of an exciting new initiative which aims to encourage more female composers in the Australian music landscape. It is named The Hildegard Project, after Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine abbess, writer and composer who is known for her literary, musical and scientific works, and for her religious and…
The timing was ironic. The Minister for the Arts Senator Brandis announced a national review of funding for opera in Australia days before Opera Australia revealed its programme for 2015. It seems that audiences for Opera Australia are greater and more broad-based than ever before; however, there is also comment from some quarters that the…
How did this get past us??! The opera theatre of the Sydney Opera House will be named in honour of Dame Joan Sutherland: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/opera/theatre-rename-honours-la-stupenda-as-house-awaits-la-traviata-20120316-1vanu.html An update on La Traviata on Sydney Harbour: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/opera/nervous-wait-for-opera-australia-as-weather-plays-its-part-20120328-1vyla.html
Cecilia Bartoli presents a brand new album of arias by Antonio Vivaldi, two decades after her ground-breaking ‘Vivaldi Album’, which sold over 700k copies. On this latest Decca album simply titled Antonio Vivaldi, Bartoli is joined by Bartoli is joined by French baroque experts Ensemble Matheus conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi. The original Vivaldi Album was a seminal…