Melbourne Digital Concert Hall’s Sydney season presents violinist Emma Jardine with pianist Benjamin Kopp,performing form the National Art School.
The Willoughby Symphony is delighted to team up with Australian singer-songwriter Lior for a special concert conducted by the celebrated Sydney conductor and composer Nigel Westlake. Lior is one of Australia’s most treasured artists renowned for his beautiful voice and songs that radiate truth and sincerity. He burst on to the Australian music scene in…
With this declamatory statement, librettist Charles Jennens announced his intention to persuade George Frideric Handel to collaborate with him on a text he had completed. In a letter to his friend Edward Holdsworth dated July 1741, Jennens said: ” I hope I shall persuade him (Handel) to set another Scripture Collection I have made for him &…
Opera Australia’s traditional Oz Opera Family Day, is especially for children and grandchildren of Patrons and Friends of Opera Australia and opera lovers. You’ll enjoy a sneak peak of their production of The Magic Flute, which is their schools’ touring opera for 2013. Artists from the production will perform selected works from the opera, and members of the…
Puccini’s heartbreaking love story is to be staged in Balmain’s own Cafe Momus- “Casual Mondays.” Dress bohemian style or just stroll in, relax, and experience the amazing voices of this top young cast performing the world’s most beloved opera. This is opera as theatre – intimate and intense! Performed in Italian and staged with an edited…
The Eulogy, the film which was inspired by former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s eulogy to concert pianist Geoffrey Tozer, was one of Richard Gill’s final projects, in which he takes the audience on a journey to re-discover the life and times of one of Australia’s greatest and little known pianists. There is a special event screening…
Resonance Concerts and Events presents baritone Alexander Knight and pianist Chris Cartner performing Robert Schumann’s romantic masterpiece, Dichterliebe opus 48, (A Poet’s Love), a cycle of 16 songs which paint a sensitive musical picture of the poet’s affections inspired by dreams, fairy-tales and the natural world. Composed in 184o, it is the best-known song cycle of Robert Schumann (Op. 48)….