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The Rabbits – Picture Gallery
Opera Australia’s innovative production of The Rabbits comes to Sydney, opening on January 14, 2016 and running till January 24, 2016 at the Roslyn Packer Theatre. Suitable for families and children aged 8+, the production has already had great success at the Perth Festival and during its Melbourne season earlier this year. It won four Helpmann…
Summer Workshops In Music Theatre For Kids And Teens
Applause Musical Theatre Academy is offering children and teens short courses in the skills of performing in music theatre in summer holiday programmes in four venues across Sydney’s north. The courses will teach music, drama and dance in two and three-day workshops in Chatswood, Roseville, St Ives and Killarney Heights. Participants will learn to sing, dance…
Kasper Holten To Leave The Royal Opera In 2017
Kasper Holten, the Director of Opera at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden since 2011, has announced that he will be stepping down from this role in 2017. Sydney audiences will be familiar with his work from his direction of Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin for Opera Australia in 2014. Read the feature in Gramophone.
Australian Conductor Dr Nicholas Milton Receives Grammy Nomination
The nominations for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards are out! Congratulations to the Australian conductor Dr Nicholas Milton who conducts 25-year-old German pianist Joseph Moog with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern in a recording nominated for the Best Classical Instrumental Solo. The recording of piano concertos by Grieg and Moszkowski is on the Onyx Classics label. Nicholas…
The Story Behind Kingfisher – Songs For Halcyon
Receiving personalised presents from good friends is surely one of the best things about celebrating a birthday. New music ensemble Halcyon celebrated its 15th birthday in 2013, with 21 new songs written especially for them by some of Australia’s finest songwriters. These songs have been crafted on to a new recording Kingfisher – Songs for…
The Story Behind Messiah
No matter how familiar Handel’s Messiah might be, this 273 year old oratorio which debuted in Dublin in 1742 remains loved by both musicians and audiences. Its premiere received rave reviews, with The Dublin Journal reporting..…’the best Judges allowed [Messiah] to be the most finished piece of Musick. Words are wanting to express the exquisite Delight it…
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Concert Review: The Fairy Queen/ Henry Purcell/ Con Opera
The Fairy Queen, Henry Purcell CON OPERA Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium Saturday 14 May 2016 Purcell’s stage works can present substantial difficulties for modern directors since, with the exception of Dido and Aeneas, they are all semi-operas. That is, they are plays into which music is inserted as stand-alone masques which are only loosely connected to…
CD Review: Ola Gjeilo
Norwegian-born composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo has released a new CD on the Decca Classics label (478 8689), Ola Gjeilo, featuring music for voices, piano and strings. Now based in Manhattan, Gjeilo is increasingly popular in the US and the UK. His music hit a high in Sydney in 2014 with performances by Vox (Dark Night…