I Musici review
Sydney turned on its glorious best last Sunday for I Musici’s Italian Summer presentation in the Royal Botanic Gardens:
Sydney turned on its glorious best last Sunday for I Musici’s Italian Summer presentation in the Royal Botanic Gardens:
La bohème – Giacomo Puccini Opera Australia, 6 January 2016 Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House Once again, the Opera Australia summer season features a revival of Gale Edwards’s production of La bohème which has been presented every year since its premiere in 2011. These continual revivals presumably make good financial sense by attracting…
Carbon and Raineri explore these pieces from the Romantic to the Modern, showcasing both traditional and newer aesthetics along with the rich tapestry of colours, tones phrasing and dynamics intrinsic to both the clarinet and the piano.
Flautist Sally Walker and harpist Emily Granger release their new album, Something Like This in November, on the UK-based independent classical music label Avie Records.
The Elixir of Love (L’elisir d’amore) Melodramma giocoso in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Felice Romani, after Eugène Scribe’s text for Daniel-François-Esprit Auber’s Le philtre (1831); Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, August 11th, 2014. After a very popular and beautifully executed season of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in 2013,…
Sydney Chamber Choir/Muffat Collective Great Hall, University of Sydney 6 October 2017 Written by Wendy McLeod The Great Hall of the University of Sydney was packed out when the Sydney Chamber Choir conducted by Roland Peelman and accompanied by the Muffat Collective, presented an early music programme of love and loss which featured madrigals by…
“…an accomplished and enlightening performance of contemporary Australian art song that espouses both traditional and cutting- edge soundscapes.”