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There is a triple treat in store for music lovers when the Marais Project celebrates 20 years of early music-making, launches its 20th anniversary CD and welcomes Elysian Fields to share the stage, preceded by the Independent Theatre’s legendary cakes and refreshments. Times and Seasons pays homage to The Marais Project’s two decades as one…
“I want to be a close as possible to Verdi and Schiller” says director Giancarlo del Monaco presenting his production of Verdi’s Don Carlo, a staging rich in period costume, fearsome inquisitors and huge crucifixes. Zubin Mehta conducts the Orchestra and Choir of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for Verdi’s grand-opéra about love, ambition and intrigue in…
Soprano Nadia Piave presents Heartbeats, Drums and Christmas Bells – a celebration of Christmas in song and rhythm, featuring traditional, medieval, folk and contemporary Christmas songs and carols. Describing the music, Nadia says “It’s all about drums, voices, bells, chimes and drones this year – beating hearts, sighs and shimmering lights in a beautiful collection…
In May 2012, Richard Tognetti took a crew of surfers, musicians and film makers to Ningaloo Reef, where the desert meets the sea to realise. They spent two unforgettable weeks surfing, making music and filming and the result is The Reef. Conceived by Tognetti, The Reef lets you immerse yourself in Jon Frank’s images of…
Christ Church St Laurence warmly invites you to Advent and Epiphany Carols, as well as Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services at Christ Church St Laurence. They mark the beginning of preparations for Christmas with an Advent Carols Service on Sunday 1 December that will feature music by composers such as Byrd, Leighton and Mendelssohn,…
The Sydney International Piano Competition presents its recent Showbiz Classics recital to watch online. Recorded live on 17 October in Verbrugghen Hall, pianist Gerard Willems takes a personally curated journey through some of the great classical music that has featured on the stage and silver screen. He and well-known broadcaster and author Rachael Kohn then…