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Mozart’s Requiem – Adelaide Festival Opener A Hit From Aix-En-Provence
Mozart’s Requiem at the Adelaide festival 2020. All images courtesy Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2019 © Pascal Victor SoundsLikeSydney was in the audience for the premiere season of Romeo Castellucci’s production of Mozart’s Requiem, with superstar Australian-born soprano Siobhan Stagg, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival last year. The production was a highlight of the festival and will be…
DocsVox – NSW Doctors Choir Fauré Open For Registrations
DocsVox – NSW Doctors Choir is excited to announce preparations for its second concert which will be themed around Fauré’s ethereal Requiem. It will be complemented by folk songs and motets, curated and conducted by Anthony Pasquill, with Dr Wei Jiang as soprano soloist. It promises to be a lot of fun with new friendships…
Ticket Giveaway To Chinese Lunar New Year Gala Night
If you would like to be in the running to win one double pass to this thrilling evening of music, song, dance and martial arts, celebrating the Year of the Rat, on January 28. email [email protected] by 5 pm on Friday 17 January, 2020 with Year of the Rat in the subject heading. We will…
Sheku Kanneh-Mason Releases ‘Elgar’
Award-winning British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason last week released Elgar, a new album of works anchored by Elgar’s Cello Concerto – one of the best-known work in the cello repertoire which had the 100th anniversary of its first performance celebrated last year. Sheku recorded the cello concerto at Abbey Road Studios (famously opened by Elgar himself…
Orchestra’s Youth Education Programme Expands in 2020
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s Young Mannheim Symphonists youth orchestra training program will expand in 2020. In 2020, students can audition for the National Winter Academy – a week-long residential music camp in Sydney in July – and/or to attend one of the three state-based Young Mannheim Symphonists Intensives – five-day programs in Victoria,…
Graham Pushee Appointed National Adjudicator For 2020 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition
Australian counter-tenor Graham Pushee will be the National Adjudicator of the 2020 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition. Unforgettable performances, including the title role in Julius Ceasar and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Opera Australia, are highlights in this ARIA nominated counter-tenor’s career that has spanned over three decades. Following his debut in 1973…
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Opera Review: Artaserse/ Pinchgut Opera
Artaserse/ Pinchgut Opera City Recital Hall 29 November 2018 Written by Deen Hamaker When Johann Adolphe Hasse reset his opera Artaserse for the Dresden Court Opera in 1740, he was oblivious to the Australian continent. That Pinchgut Opera’s version of his masterpiece has sat unperformed since that time is incredible enough, let alone that Sydney…
Concert Review: A Baroque Christmas/ Australian Chamber Choir
A Baroque Christmas Australian Chamber Choir St Mary’s Cathedral Crypt, Sydney 24 November 2018 Christmas isn’t Christmas without certain musical essentials. Anything seasonal by Sir David Willcocks and J S Bach, the melodies of Martin Luther and Michael Praetorius and the contrasting aesthetics of Lutheran simplicity with Baroque complexity, represent a dimension of Christmas music…