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A Fabulous New Concert Hall In Europe
Book your holiday in Hamburg! With the opening of the Elbphilharmonie, the world has a magnificent new concert hall and the line-up from resident and visiting artists is spectacular. The ‘heart’ of the Elbphilharmonie will be the 2,150 seat Great Hall with the smaller 500 seat hall available for chamber music. Not abashed to espouse ‘classical’…
Pagliacci Image Gallery
The tragic tale of the broken-hearted clown comes to life in Pagliacci, Opera Australia’s verismo double-bill with Cavalleria Rusticana which opened in Sydney last week. Director Damiano Michieletto has linked the two works dramatically with several of the main characters from one opera appearing the other. Read our review from opening night and see these luscious…
Cavalleria Rusticana Image Gallery
Opera Australia’s realist double-bill Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci opened in Sydney last week. Visually and musically sumptuous with dramatic performances, here are some images from Cavalleria Rusticana with images from Pagiliacci in the next post. Read our review from opening night. The double-bill runs till February 4 in Sydney and moves to Melbourne in May 2017. Scroll…
Behind The Scenes At The Sydney Baroque Music Festival
It might seem enigmatic that Sydney’s fascination with baroque music looks back to a time before Western culture even arrived on these shores. Yet, the pull of baroque music is so powerful that a group of young Sydney musicians led by violinist Meg Cohen has been gathering in Sydney each summer, as the Sydney Baroque…
Young Singers Shine In The Festival of Summer Voices
Gondwana Choirs, the nation’s highly respected choral training ground is in the thick of its National Choral School. With more than 300 young singers, composers and conductors hot-housing vocal repertoire over a fortnight, you could be forgiven for expecting unbridled cacophony. On the contrary, these emerging musicians will be formed into six choirs under the…
Festive Music Ideas
Can’t decide what music to play over the Festive Season? Here are some suggestions from our recent reviews of albums that feature both sacred and secular selections to help create the festive mood! A Very Brandenburg Christmas – the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is joined by soprano and bandura player Larissa Kovalchuk, saxophonist Christina Leonard the…
Latest reviews
Album Review: Hooray For Song! / The Sydney Children’s Choir/ Lyn Williams And Friends
Described as a ‘singing adventure’, the Sydney Children’s Choir’s new album release Hooray for Song! is a lively collection of songs written especially with young singers in mind. Since being established in 1989 by Lyn Williams OAM, who continues to serve as Artistic Director, the choir has commissioned numerous Australian composers to write and arrange…
Concert Review: Young Handel/ Thoroughbass
Young Handel – Thoroughbass Diana Weston, harpsichord/ Shaun Ng, viola da gamba/ Anna Fraser, soprano The Independent Theatre, North Sydney/Sunday March 26th 2017 Written by Victoria Watson The Independent Theatre with its live acoustic and elegant neo-classical architecture was the perfect venue for Thoroughbass’s delightful concert dedicated to the early Italian chamber works of Georg Friedrich Handel…