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The Travelling Tenor – A Tempting Formula In Music Touring
Small group travel with fellow music lovers, personal care and a tenor for company – a tempting formula from the Sydney-based, newly launched, unique, small group opera tour, The Travelling Tenor. Hosted by professional opera singer Adam Player, who performs with Opera Australia and Pinchgut Opera as well as throughout the UK, The Travelling Tenor takes…
Breaking news: Opera Australia Announces New CEO – Rory Jeffes
Opera Australia’s Chairman, David Mortimer AO today announced the appointment of Mr Rory Jeffes as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr Jeffes will take up the CEO position at Opera Australia on 31 July 2017. Rory Jeffes is no stranger to Sydney. The Ontario born executive has been with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra since 2005 in…
Scoop: Playlist for Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Circa’s Spanish Baroque,
If you’re reading this, you’re amongst the first to check out the thrilling programme of music to be heard when the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the fearless acrobatic ensemble Circa, join forces to present Spanish Baroque at Sydney’s City Recital Hall in May. Featuring traditional music alongside works by Albeniz, Vivaldi and de Merula, the…
Musica Viva Festival 2017
The 2017 Musica Viva Festival brings a four-day celebration of chamber music, family events, food and wine, where the world’s great performers rub shoulders with rising stars, composers and fans. Returning to the Sydney Conservatorium from 20-23 April, 2017, it offers an impressive guest list topped by legendary violinist Pinchas Zukerman, pianist Lambert Orkis and Australian…
Liszt Lives – David Trippett Talks About Reconstructing Liszt’s Opera Sardanapalo
Once in a while, the music of the great masters has a renaissance with the discovery and reconstruction of a long forgotten score. Pianist, musicologist and writer Dr David Trippett is rebuilding the first act of Franz Liszt’s incomplete opera Sardanapalo. Liszt abandoned this score in 1851, which the Cambridge academic has painstakingly restored in…
Opera’s Quiet Achiever Bids Farewell
Last Saturday night, the Green Room of the Sydney Opera House was buzzing as performers from various companies prepared for the evening’s shows. Shortly before 7.30, the cast of the La traviata company received their call to the stage. Amongst those summonsed was Anthony Legge, Associate Music Director at Opera Australia who has been conducting…
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Opera Review: La Calisto/ Sydney Conservatorium of Music Opera School
La Calisto, Francesco Cavalli Sydney Conservatorium of Music Opera School Sydney Conservatorium of Music May 20, 2017 Written by Deen Hamaker 17th Century Venice must have been quite a place to produce a work as wild as La Calisto. Even by today’s no holds barred artistic standards there are some outrageous situations in this wild…
Concert Review: Angela Hewitt/ Musica Viva
Angela Hewitt Music Viva City Recital Hall, May 8, 2017 In August 2016 Angela Hewitt embarked on a Bach Odyssey. Her mission was to perform all the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach over 4 years, in a series of 12 recitals. Daniel Barenboim performed the piano works of Beethoven and Eliot Gardiner with his…