“No such thing as an ‘overnight success’ in opera” – Dame Kiri
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is refreshingly honest about the trend to fast-track singers to classical singing without the vital technical foundations.
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is refreshingly honest about the trend to fast-track singers to classical singing without the vital technical foundations.
Click here to read The Guardian.
Scroll down to see all four images from this acclaimed production at the Royal Opera Covent garden with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role. See the production at Palace Cinemas in Sydney. Click here for more.
Two of Australia’s finest storytellers, actor John Bell and pianist Simon Tedeschi, break new ground with this new recording for ABC Classics, of the great melodrama Enoch Arden – a deeply moving tale of love, loss, redemption and shipwreck, told through spoken word and solo piano. The album, available on CD and as a digital…
Australian soprano Nicole Car is one of the brightest stars in international opera and available from today is her second album Heroines, from ABC Classics, recorded live in concert with the Australian Chamber Orchestra directed and led from the violin by Richard Tognetti with a cameo solo by ACO Principal Violin Satu Vänskä. In April 2018, Nicole joined the…
How did we miss this one? Sumi Jo speaks to Julieanne Strachan of the Sydney Morning Herald during her recent trip to Australia. Better late than never: Click here to read.
SoundsLikeSydney is excited to announce the launch this week of our free monthly newsletter SoundsClassic. Our inaugural edition is packedwith news – we have the ‘wrap’ on Melbourne’s Ring cycle, musings on Christmas music, a Messiah quiz to challenge you, reviews of some of the many CDs released during 2013 in case you’re stuck for…
A signed photo of Gustav Mahler, previously owned by Arnold Schoenberg is the subject of a tussle between the Schoenberg family and its present owner who’s willing to part with it for a fee. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/lost-gustav-mahler-photo_n_1957333.html?utm_hp_ref=music-news