Pinchgut Opera fans have another terrific musical event to look forward to with the Australian debut of Antonio Cesti's Orontea, one of the most popular operas of the 17th century. Superstar mezzo-soprano, Anna Dowsley returns to Australia from Germany to sing the title role of this charming and wickedly funny Baroque opera. Comprising a prologue...
HERE is a conceptual concert of music, art, and poetry, presented by a new interdisciplinary collective of Inner West-based artists. Formed in response to the lost bond of intimacy between neighbours during lockdown, HERE explores the theme of locality and transition through a collaboration between words, music, and visuals.
Musica Viva Australia's second Morning Masters concert of 2022 brings together two powerhouse performers: tenor Andrew Goodwin and pianist Sonya Lifschitz.
Ensemble Offspring presents Another Future in which each work explores themes pertinent to our lives today. From climate change and natural disasters to global pandemics and human connection, four new works by bold female compositional voices offer moving sonic insights into life on planet earth in 2022.
The Sydney Con Jazz Festival 2022 features trail-blazing jazz artists from the US and Europe alongside the crème of Australian jazz. Multi-show discounts available
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra takes you to The Italian Baroque, featuring some of the greatest compositions of that grand era with concerts in Sydney and Wyong.
Phoenix Collective Quartet (PCQ) presents ‘Enlightenment’, performing in Sydney, Canberra and the Central Coast, exploring ideas of liberty, progress and individualism and performing the world premiere of Sally Whitwell's piece 'Toward.'
Bach Akademie Australia's The Weapons of Rhetoric concerts in June feature not only Bach’s celebrated Double Violin Concerto, but also writer-actor Jonathan Biggins and urbane rhetorician Jonathan Horton QC, one of Australia’s outstanding legal brains, as guest presenter-performers. The duo will demonstrate the art of rhetoric and the relationship between speech and music in theatrical debate interwoven throughout the program.
Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s Sounds of Vienna chamber music tour presents a special pairing of a well-known masterpiece by Schubert, and a delightful rarity by Joseph Leopold Eybler.
Musica Viva Australia presents an exciting new take on J S Bach’s Goldberg Variations, bringing together one of Australia’s most distinguished artists Paul Grabowsky and award-winning Yale-trained pianist Andrea Lam, for a nine-concert national tour in June.
Thoroughbass introduces Mary & Me a program in which long-standing friends Mary Sambell and Diana Weston meet up for some personal music-making.
Castalia Vocal Consort presents Under Cover of Darkness, a concert featuring songs of nocturnal landscapes and night-time wanderings.
Opera Bites, Sydney’s favourite boutique opera company is back, performing Bizet's Carmen with an unforgettable evening of fully costumed popular opera complete with a bespoke menu and sparkling wine on arrival.
Sydney Chamber Choir has drawn on almost five decades of concerts in Innocence & Experience to select landmark gems of Australian and Renaissance music for two special degustation performances at the new ACO’s recital hall, The Neilson, in Walsh Bay.
The finalists in the 2022 Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto Competition will perform their choice of concerto with the orchestra on competing for prizes and performance opportunities.
Eight gifted singers have emerged as finalists in the 2022 Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship Final. They will compete for a prize purse valued at $61,000.