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The Sydney Symphony’s 8oth season gala continues tonight: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/symphonys-anniversary-hits-a-high-note-20120212-1szkg.html The ACO’s Chopin/Mendelssohn programme reviewed: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/capricious-performance-needs-more-melody-20120212-1szxx.html Cello-bration: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/no-more-mellow-cello-20120210-1sfbg.html
Check out the ‘look’ of Musica Viva and Victorian Opera’s co-production of the Baroque pastiche opera Voyage to the Moon. There is one more Sydney performance on Saturday February 27 at 2 pm at the City Recital Hall. Scroll down to see all four images.
Tom Service of The Guardian interviews brilliant 27 year old violinist Alina Ibragimova, describing her “trademark wildly imaginative playing, with its combination of unleashed energy and historical awareness”. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/oct/18/alina-ibragimova-violinist-rawness-energy
How often have you returned to a forgotten book or piece of music only to re-discover or even uncover unrealised joys? Vexations 840 has begun a worldwide hunt for The Hunt for the Greatest Forgotten String Quartet and is inviting lovers of chamber music to have their say in a vote and help programme a…
Italian buffo baritone Paolo Bordogna has charmed Sydney’s audiences with his singing and comedic timing, first as the Turk in The Turk in Italy, then as Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro last year and now as the ‘other’ Figaro in The Barber of Seville. Last year he released a CD of arias from the…
Hearty congratulations to Musica Viva CEO Mary Jo Capps who last week was awarded the degree of Doctor of Visual and Performing Arts honoris causa by the University of Melbourne, in recognition of her extensive contribution to music and the University. This is the highest honour that the university can bestow. Professor Barry Conyngham, Dean of the Faculty of VCA&MCM said,…