‘Queen of Spades’ shows her hand
Miriam Cosic previews the Sydney Symphony’s staged production of Tchaikovsky’s mammoth opera:
Miriam Cosic previews the Sydney Symphony’s staged production of Tchaikovsky’s mammoth opera:
Just pretend you’re 17 years old. You have decisions to make that will have a major impact on the rest of your life. It is not about choosing HSC subjects or whether to take a year off after school. These decisions are more definitive. They are what soprano Allegra Giagu faced when she was just this…
Verdi’s Luisa Miller opened in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House last night – and the audience loved it! A co-production between Opera Australia and Opera Lausanne, it is visually surreal and abstract with standout singing. Scroll down to see all 8 images from the production. Performances till February 29. Images courtesy Opera…
Pianist András Schiff has released the latest in his recordings of the music of Schubert with Franz Schubert: Sonatas & Impromptus. On this 2-hour double album from ECM Records, Schiff plays the Four Impromptus D 899, and compositions from 1828, the last year of Schubert’s all too brief life: The Three Pieces D 946 (“impromptus in all…
Strike A Chord, Musica Viva Australia’s National Chamber Music Championship for high school students is going online and the entry fee has been waived! Secondary school-aged ensembles from around Australia are invited to apply online by 27 August 2020 for their chance to progress to the finals and share in prizes worth thousands of dollars….
Sydney’s star-gazers could be forgiven for an element of confusion over the next couple of weeks as not one but two moons and two suns float over Sydney harbour. The two gleaming orbs are part of Handa on Sydney Harbour’s 2014 production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly which opens of Friday March 21st and runs every…
Decca presents a new album, Cinema, a handpicked collection of music from film and TV by Ludovico Einaudi, the composer behind Oscar-winning films Nomadland and The Father. To be released on June 4, 2021, Cinema is a collection of Einaudi’s greatest works from film and television including two previously unreleased tracks.