The 2008 Salzburg Festival production of Verdi’s penultimate opera Otello, directed by Stephen Langridge and recorded live at the festival, is on SBS TV this weekend.
Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Salzburg Festival Children’s Chorus and soloists Aleksandrs Antonenko in the title role, Marina Poplavskaya as Desdemona, Carlos Álvarez as Iago, Stephen Costello as Cassio and Barbara Di Castri as Emilia.
Halcyon presents This Kind of Life, featuring a new work by longtime colleague, composer Elliott Gyger who will be celebrating his 50th birthday this year. Sharing its title with the concert, This Kind of Life is scored for soprano, mezzo-soprano, clarinet, cello, piano and harp. It is the sixth Gyger premiere and celebrates more than 20 years…
Puccini’s Tragedia giapponese in two acts, Madama Butterfly presented by Opera Australia, goes on the boards from June 28 to August 10. Set to libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after David Belasco’s play Madame Butterfly, based again on a story by John Luther Long, the opera premiered at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, in February 1904. This new digital…
Australian Haydn Ensemble led by Artistic Director Skye McIntosh and soloist Neal Peres Da Costa playing the Fortepiano perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4 in the ensemble’s ongoing cycle of exploring chamber versions of Beethoven’s piano concertos. Reflecting 18th century practice, this year the AHE is using as a basis, Beethoven’s own sketches for a new version of…
A diverse programme of rich melodies and harmonies launches the 2012 season for the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Sarah Grace Williams. Pablo De Sarasate’s irresistible single movement gypsy themed Zigeunerweisen opens the programme featuring violinist Dan Russell. Antonín Dvořák’s 5 movement Czech Suite continues the east European mood, followed by the shimmering Pavane by Gabriel Faure and…
Andrey Gugnin, winner of the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia, performs a thrilling recital which includes music by Bach, Schubert, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky. In 2016, six finalists competed in the grand finals of the Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia at the Sydney Opera House. The winner, 29-year-old Russian virtuoso, Andrey Gugnin returns to…
The Amateur Chamber Music Society is a collegiate that includes some of Sydney’s most experienced and able non-professional ensemble players. They get together to showcase their talents in a concert in mid-October with the Cantato Strings performing Haydn’s Trio in C, Hob XV:27, Mozart’s Piano Quartet No 1 in G Minor, KV 478, the Hak trio playing Dvorak’s Piano Trio No4 (Dumky),…