Elektra reviews – Final Performance Tonight
The topic of the moment amongst Sydney’s classical music fans is the concert production of Richard Strauss’ Elektra by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson. The second and final performance is in the concert hall tonight, Monday 24th February. It is possibly a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear soprano Christine Goerke…
Lift Off In Houston For Baritone Morgan Pearse
Baritone Morgan Pearse will soon be moving from London, his home of recent years, to Houston, Texas, where he has been offered a position with the Studio Programme of the Houston Grand Opera. The prestigious HGO Opera Studio offers an integrated programme involving study in voice, drama and affiliated areas, opportunities to perform and…
Soundsclassic is out next week
The March issue of our increasingly popular free monthly newsletter, SoundsClassic is due out next week. Together with the website ClassicMelbourne.com.au SoundsClassic brings you some of the best of classical news from our two cities. If you;re not already a subscriber, make sure you’re on our mailing list by submitting your details via the…
When There’s Music In The DNA
“Music was like an extra language in our family, one we all spoke.” The world-famous cellist Steven Isserlis comes from a long line of musicians. His Russian grandfather was accepted into the Moscow Conservatoire aged just 10. Steven Isserlis talks to the New Statesman about the pleasures and pressures of coming from an intensely musical…
Stuart Skelton talks about Peter Grimes At the English National Opera
Stuart Skelton is presently appearing at the London Coliseum in the title role of Britten’s Peter Grimes, a role with which he has become synonymous. The David Alden production conducted by Edward Gardner will be broadcast live whilst being performed in front of its theatre audience of 2,500. Read what Stuart Skelton says to BBC Music…
German Conducting Appointment for Nicholas Milton
Dr Nicholas Milton Dr Nicholas Milton, Chief Conductor of the Willoughby Symphony has been appointed General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the State Theater of Saarland, Germany (Saarländischen Staatstheater) for four years from 2014. Dr Milton was selected to the position following an international search which attracted over 100 applicants. Dr Milton has been the…
Sydney’s best kept classical music secret
In a home in the northern outskirts of Sydney lies a truly remarkable collection of period keyboard instruments. Nestled near the natural bushland at Berowra Heights, Ralph Schureck has assembled some thirty-five instruments, making The Schureck Collection the largest collection of concert quality early keyboards in Australia. Instruments from before 1780 are accurate copies…
Jessica Pratt debuts at La Scala as Lucia
Soprano Jessica Pratt is to debut in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor at Milan’s high altar of opera, the Teatro alla Scala. Mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble takes up her writer’s quill to interview Jessica prior to her historic performance under the baton of Pier Giorgio Morandi. Click here for feature in ClassicMelbourne
Brokeback Mountain, The Opera, Premieres In Madrid – Watch Online.
First there was the short story by n Annie Proulx. Then there was the Ang Lee directed movie starring the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Now there is the opera, Charles Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain, which premiered last month in at the Teatro Real in Madrid. As reported in The Guardian, Wuorinen says that he wanted to…