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La Traviata Celebration Special Offer Tickets On Sale This Week
To celebrate 200 performances of La Traviata at the Sydney Opera House, Opera Australia will offer 200 tickets on sale for 200 cents for the February 23 performance of this popular opera. Possibly the most performed opera in the world, Verdi’s La Traviata, dazzles with irresistible music, brilliant singing and a sumptuous setting. Opera Australia has…
La Traviata In Pictures – Opens Tonight!
Opening tonight in the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House is Opera Australia’s sumptuous production of La Traviata. This revival of Elijah Moshinsky’s vision of Verdi’s enormously popular opera is directed by Roger Press. Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho opens in the role of Violetta Valéry later sung by Lorina Gore and Emma Matthews. …
Album Release: Dario Castello/ Sonate Concertate In Stil Moderno, Libro Primo/ Academy Of Ancient Music/ Egarr
The Academy of Ancient Music presents the music of Dario Castello, the hidden genius of Venetian music in its latest album release, available from today on ABC Classics on CD and in digital form. A contemporary of Claudio Monteverdi, Castello was a composer and wind player who wrote in an innovative style that had a…
Album Release:The Romantics Grieg | Mendelssohn | Paganini Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Shunske Sato
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra breaks new ground with its latest album, The Romantics Grieg | Mendelssohn | Paganini, which ventures into exploring the music of three of the Romantic era’s greatest composers on period instruments. Directed by Japanese-American violin star Shunske Sato and release by ABC Classics, the Brandenburg musicians under Artistic Director Paul Dyer AO,…
Liza Lim Appointed To Sydney Conservatorium Of Music
The highly-acclaimed Australian composer Liza Lim has joined the University of Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music to mentor and grow the reputation of women composers in this country. Liza Lim has been commissioned by some of the world’s pre-eminent orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, BBC Symphony, and Germany’s WestdeutscherRundfunk and SudwestRundfunk orchestras, and…
Gillham, Ashkenazy And SSO In New ABC Digital Release
On a new digital recording released last week, pianist Jayson Gillham plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy. Recorded during a live performance in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House in October 2016, it was Gillham’s debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and came as part of a…
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Concert Review: St John Passion/ The Choir of St James’ and BachBand@St James’
St John Passion, The Choir of St James’ and BachBand@St James’ with Choristers from Santa Sabina College and Shore City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney April 7, 2017 Written by Larry Turner Performances of Bach’s Easter Passions in Sydney have become less frequent in recent years so it is very pleasing that three of Bach’s major…
Concert Review: Chancellor’s Concert / Sydney Conservatorium Of Music Symphony Orchestra
Chancellor’s Concert, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Symphony Orchestra, Verbrugghen Hall March 31 2017 Written by Ria Andriani The fourth in Sydney Conservatorium’s Chancellor’s Concert series, this outstanding performance brought an exciting program which Maestro Eduardo Diazmuñoz had designed as an homage to women in music as composers, performers and as muses. Aptly enough it was…