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Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program Streams The Merry Wives Of Windsor
The Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program has made available its 2019 production of Otto Nicolai‘s Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, recorded by 4MBS Classic FM. Directed by Heather Fairbairn and conducted by Ward Stare with Ensemble Q, the cast includes Joel Amosa as Sir John Falstaff, Morgan England-Jones as Frau Fluth, Anastasia Bickel as Frau…
Musica Viva Announces Its Newest FutureMakers
Violinist Harry Ward and chamber music ensemble Partridge String Quartet are the Musica Viva Australia FutureMakers for 2020-2021. This two-year, part-time initiative in leadership was launched by Music Viva in 2015, and aims to discover and enable brilliant early career artists to become Australia’s musical leaders of tomorrow offering artists a comprehensive professional development curriculum…
Sokolov Records Beethoven And Brahms For Deutsche Grammophon
Grigory Sokolov has a new album Beethoven Brahms, out now on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Three years after his last recording, Sokolov returns with a 31-track double album of live recordings from his triumphant 2019/20 tour. Included on the double album are Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 3 and the Bagatelles opus 119 along with Brahms’…
ARCO’s Young Mannheim Symphonists Keep The Tradition Alive
The Young Mannheim Symphonists is a youth orchestra program conducted by the Australian Romanric & Classical Orchestra (ARCO). It is a unique and exciting program designed to give students and emerging musicians the opportunity to discover the magic of approaching music in historical performance style. As the students are led through great musical masterpieces of…
The McDonald College Opens Online Auditions For 2021
Performing arts school, The McDonald College, invites prospective students to submit an online audition for 2021 intake to the College. This option is available to students looking to enter Year 5 and above into the following streams: Acting, Classical Ballet, Dance (Commercial), Music or Musical Theatre. Video auditions must be submitted to the College Registrar…
The Met’s Daily Opera Streams
The Met Opera has been brightening the lives of our audience members even while their stage is dark. Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT…
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Concert Review: English Baroque/ Australian Brandenburg Orchestra/ Circa/ Jane Sheldon
English Baroque Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Circa, Jane Sheldon, Lauren Stephenson City Recital Hall, Sydney 8 May, 2019 A collaboration with Circa must seem like taking a friend to a party only to find that they steal all your attention. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s third collaboration with the Brisbane based contemporary human circus company Circa, is…
Concert Review: Oxana Shevchenko/ Sydney International Piano Competition
Oxana Shevchenko, Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 14 April, 2019 Written by Paul Bennett With a slightly bowed head and a confident walk without hint of strut or swagger, Oxana Shevchenko is all about the music. She welcomes her audience in the manner of a genial hostess with…