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Dr Clare Skinner works in the Emergency Department of Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital. She also plays the oboe and once a year joins around 60 other medicos from around the state to indulge their passion for music, performing as the NSW Doctors’ Orchestra. The proceeds go to the charities related to music and medicine. She tells…
Simone Young interviews
Simone Young returns to Australia at the end of July to conduct the Australian Youth Orchestra in Brisbane. In this interview with the Sydney Morning Herald she talks about her tenure in Hamburg and her plans for the future: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/funding-means-its-a-long-way-between-sydney-and-hamburg-20120622-20t5k.html http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/climbing-every-mountain-with-a-bit-of-metal-20120622-20t5h.html
Met Opera Live in HD Continues Nightly Free Streaming – The Week’s Program
The Met Live in HD continues to offer nightly streaming of its superlative productions. Here are this week’s performances, every evening at 7.30 pm each evening (US EDT). Watch via their website or on multiple devices through the Met Opera on Demand app. Monday, April 20: Strauss’s Elektra / With Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier and Eric…
Double trouble with the twins – Pinchgut rehearses for ‘Castor and Pollux’
Next week, Pinchgut Opera presents its much awaited and ‘top of the range’ annual offering for 2012, Rameau’s Castor and Pollux. The soloists have been Sydney for nearly a month and work with the ensemble of singers and instrumentalists has begun. Antony Walker is back to conduct the performances, with his Co-Artistic Director at Pinchgut, Erin Helyard at the harpsichord. The costumes…