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Met Opera Streams HD Productions Free
During this extraordinary and difficult time, New York’s Metropolitan Opera brightens the lives of our audience members and opera lovers around the world even while its 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…
The Metropolitan Orchestra Online
The Metropolitan Orchestra is bringing its music direct to your homes. Over the coming weeks, it will share a selection of video recordings of favourite concerts along with some specially created videos direct from their musicians’ homes to yours, keeping the music alive in this small way before we can enjoy live music again. Broadcast…
Trevor Pinnock Records JS Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 For Deutsche Grammophone
Available tomorrow, April 10, is British harpsichordist and conductor’s new recording on Deutsche Grammophon, J S BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier I. Trevor Pinnock is a pioneer of the early music movement. As founder and former leader of The English Concert he enjoys a longstanding relationship with Archiv Produktion and Deutsche Grammophon. Among his celebrated recordings…
Australian Chamber Orchestra Launches Its Digital Content Season ACO Homecasts
The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) presents its digital content season, ACO HomeCasts, bringing extensive and innovative music from the musicians of the ACO into the homes of audiences and communities across Australia and abroad over the coming months, and beyond. Tonight, April 7 at 7 pm, ACO violinist Ike See and ACO violist Elizabeth Woolnough give…
Easter Music Online
If you’re missing your fix of concerts during the Easter season, here are some links that you might like to check out – performances of a variety of Easter musical fare by Australian and other composers and performers: Short listens: Sydney Chamber Choir performs Paul Stanhope’s Ubi Caritas This beautiful piece is a hymn of the…
These Unprecedented Times…SoundsLikeSydney Supports Performers And Audiences
At the risk of resorting to a clichè, we are witnessing unprecedented times around the globe. The performing arts industry in Australia has suffered a double blow, through a complete shutdown of the performing arts for most of the rest of the year, as well as drastic cuts in Arts Council funding – there simply…
Latest reviews
Opera Review: Werther/ Opera Australia
Werther. Opera Australia Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House 22 February 2019 The winter snows melt and the chilly scene is transformed into one that is resplendent with the abundance of summer – fruit, flowers, wheat, grapes and the promise of re-birth as the children of the village rehearse a Christmas carol. In stark contrast…
Recital Review: Berg: Romantic To Maverick
Berg: Romantic to Maverick, Opera Australia The Opera Centre, Sydney 3 February, 2019 Berg: Romantic to Maverick, a recital of Art Song by Alban Berg and his contemporaries, discerningly complemented Opera Australia’s presentation of Alban Berg’s epochal opera Wozzeck, currently in its season at the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. Soprano Taryn Fiebig,…