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The Idea of North ‘Smile’ CD giveaway
‘Smile’ is the 10th CD release from the fabulous ARIA Award winning a capella quartet The Idea of North. SoundsLikeSydney has two copies to give away. If you would like to be in the running to win your own copy of ‘Smile’, email [email protected] with the subject title ‘Smile’ by 5pm on Thursday 26th September. Winners will…
Harbour City Opera – the new kid on the block
Creative Director of Harbour City Opera Sarah Ann Walker talks about why she is forming a new company and announces that Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ is in the line -up for 2014. Sarah Ann Walker admits that she hasn’t slept properly in 7 months. The cause of this insomnia is that she is in the throes of…
Amina Edris wins Sydney Eisteddfod McDonald’s Operatic Aria Award.
Soprano Amina Edris from Christchurch, New Zealand has won the 2013 Sydney Eisteddfod McDonald’s Operatic Aria Award. Singing Steal Me Sweet Thief from The Old Maid and the Thief by Menotti and Caro Nome from Verdi’s Rigoletto, Edris beat her compatriot from Auckland, baritone James Ioelu into second place. He sang Non piu andrai from…
Russia’s anti-gay stance leaves Tchaikovsky in limbo
Russia’s anti-gay stance has posed a dilemna surrounding attitudes towards at least one of its iconic figures. The Russian government is to fund a biopic about Peter Tchaikovsky which will ignore his sexuality. The Russian Minister for Culture has denied what has long been considered fact hat Tchaikovsky was gay. Click here to read the feature, and a humourous look at revisionism…
Rachel Bate wins 2013 Sydney Eisteddfod Opera & Arts Support Group Scholarship
Last week soprano Rachel Bate was awarded the Opera and Arts Support Group Vocal Scholarship in the 80th Anniversary McDonald’s Sydney Eisteddfod. Singing Einsam in trüben Tagen from Lohengrin and Pace pace mio Dio from La Forza del Destino, adjudicators John Pringle and Graeme Pushee placed Rachel at the head of the six finalists finishing ahead of New…
Einaudi to appear at Sydney’s GRAPHIC Festival
Coinciding with his inaugural Sydney performance, Universal Music has released In A Time Lapse – The Remixes, featuring the music of Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi. This release is a compilation of 7 new remixes of tracks from In a Time Lapse. In a Time Lapse is an album release from Einaudi, recorded in…
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CD Review: ‘Dido’s Lament’- Zoë Black and Joe Chindamo
Dido’s Lament is the debut release by pianist Joe Chindamo and violinist Zoë Black on their newly formed recording label Mo’OzArt. For the ‘classically’ trained Black and Chindamo, the pianist with the reputation as a jazz musician, it is a fusion of styles which seeks to shatter pre-conceptions and create what Chindamo describes as a…
Review: Opera Australia ‘The Magic Flute’
The Magic Flute – W A Mozart, Libretto: Emmanuel Schikaneder. Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House January 10th 2014. Coinciding with the numerology of Mozart’s 1791 singspiel, there are three pillars of wisdom to be accepted in appreciating this production of The Magic Flute. First, it is sung in English not in…