More of What’s in Store in “The Love of the Nightingale”


The ‘Queen of the sitar’ Anoushka Shankar is to tour Australia early next year performing her spellbinding Land of Gold album and show live on stage at WOMADelaide ( 9-12 March, Adelaide’s Botanic Park) at the Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House (Sunday, March 11) and then on to Hamer Hall, Arts Centre (Tuesday, March 13). Tickets for Sydney and…
Pianist Angel Hewitt’s interpretations of the keyboard works of J S Bach have defined her as the foremost exponent of this repertoire in the 21st century. In 2005, she completed an 11 year project to record all his major keyboard works – described by The Sunday Times as “one of the record glories of…
Fresh from a rock crushing and exhilarating 2017, the Spooky Men’s Chorale have emerged blinking into this year with a perverse desire to rebuild the man mountain of deep hearted and terminally foolish singing which have made them a byword amongst discriminating human critters. The show amounts to a sometimes boofy, sometimes absurd, sometimes gossamer-delicate…
There is a rare chance to hear the legendary American soprano Beverly Sills in a classic telecast of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Joyce DiDonato as the Lady of the Lake in Rossini’s take on Sir Walter Scott, William Kentridge’s ingenious staging of Shostakovich’s The Nose, Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena finding love in Donizetti’s La Fille du…
Stephen Taberner’s Big Singlet is a pop-up choir – ” it’s a thing, it’s a thing, it’s a sing.” Stephen Taberner has arrived back from overseas places with some secret new ditties and a fresh-faced desire to transform roomloads of galoots into singing angels. it’s worked before, so why not now? big singlets are one-off or…
Soprano Nadia Piave’s annual Christmas concert this year …this shining night – songs and carols for Christmas features French Noëls, among other yuletide musical treats, in the gorgeous little St Peter Chanel Church in Hunters Hill. Nadia will sing a mix of medieval, renaissance and traditional carols and christmas songs, accompanied by Gino Pengue on a…