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Opera Australia Announces Second Performance Of Verdi’s Requiem
A second date in August 2017 has been announced for Opera Australia’s presentation of Verdi’s Requiem in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. Dubbed by the conductor Hans von Bülow as ‘Oper in Kirchengewande’ (opera in ecclesiastical dress) Verdi’s Requiem is brimming with the drama of operatic ideas. In fact, Verdi based the Lacrymosa on…
Opera Australia Announces A Second Performance Of Thaïs
Missed out on tickets to Thaïs next year? Opera Australia has announced a second date in July 2017 for their concert performance of Massenet’s rarely performed opera conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire with Nicole Car as Thaïs, Canadian baritone Etienne Dupuis as Athanaël and Korean born tenor Simon Kim as Nicias. Richard Anderson sings the role of Palémon with Sian…
ACO Benefits From Benefactor’s Largesse
The Australian Chamber Orchestra is the beneficiary of the largesse of Peter Weiss AO, one of Australia’s most dedicated arts philanthropists and a successful businessman. He has donated to the ensemble an exceptionally fine and extremely rare cello. Made by Giuseppe Guarneri filius Andreæ in 1729, the cello is valued at A$1,800,000. This is the…
Vale Sir Neville Marriner
The British conductor Sir Neville Marriner who founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 1958, died last Saturday aged 92. Sir Neville began his career as a violinist, playing with the London Symphony Orchestra. Along with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, he eventually became one of the most recorded…
Ross Edwards On His ‘Missa Alchera’ (Mass Of The Dreaming)
This weekend, the Sydney Chamber Choir directed by Richard Gill will perform Ross Edwards’ Missa Alchera (Mass of the Dreaming). Written in 2009 for 8 part SATB chorus this is a Sydney premiere for the mass. Ross Edwards explains in his own words, his inspiration behind the mass and the creative process by which he composed…
Win A Double Pass To The Marais Project’s ‘French Flute’ – An Offer Not to Miss!
An offer not to miss! Our friends at The Marais Project have generously offered two double passes to readers of SoundsLikeSydney for their concert The French Flute on Sunday October 16 at 3 pm at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. If you’d like to be in the running for these double passes, email [email protected] by 5 pm…
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Album Review: Wonderland/Alice Sara Ott
Grieg’s virtuosic Piano Concerto in A minor has languished in recent years and its inclusion on the new album release Wonderland from Deutsche Grammophon, by the 28-year-old German pianist Alice Sara Ott represents a welcome return. Ott combines this all-Grieg anthology with a selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and selections from Peer Gynt for solo…
Album Review: Omega Ensemble: Mozart/ Munro/ Palmer
The Sydney based Omega Ensemble has come of age with its debut album Mozart-Munro-Palmer (ABC Classics 481 4667) that gathers a triptych of works for clarinet and chamber ensemble. The album features Artistic Director David Rowden, who founded the ensemble in 2005, as the clarinet soloist anchoring the tracks with the matchless Clarinet Quintet in…