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January. It’s a good month to spend in Sydney. The frenzy of Christmas is over; New Year has been cast off with a stretch and a yawn. It’s time to sniff the air of what’s new and enjoy the unbridled ‘eclecticosm’ of Sydney in January before the relative safety of the year’s subscription series. Top…
Sadly Claudio Abbado is no more. Thanks to the digital age, his work lives on through his numerous recordings and videos. Gramophone magazine’s website has a selection of his 10 best recordings and the Berlin Philharmoniker concerts on video.
“Flora is fabulous! She sashays across the stage in a beautiful costume. She is a courtesan; she has exciting parties and has to move through this harsh half-world where there are aristocrats and wealthy patrons.” So says mezzo-soprano Celeste Haworth, soon to sing the role of Flora Bervoix in Opera Australia’s production of La Traviata at the Sydney Opera House later this year..
In news from The Song Company, Artistic Director Roland Peelman has been appointed Artistic Director of the Canberra International Music Festival from 2015 to 2017. In a statement released recently, The Song Company announced that Roland Peelman’s role will commence in April 2014 replacing the current CIMF Director, Chris Latham. Roland Peelman will fulfil his new role alongside his existing commitments…
The coveted Paul Lowin Prizes are being awarded again in 2013, and the winners will be announced in Sydney, on Monday October 28th, 2013. Presented by the Paul Lowin Trust and the Australian Music Centre (AMC), the awards are among Australia’s richest prizes for composition, with an Orchestral Prize of $25,000 and a Song Cycle Prize of…
The “visceral, ethereal quality of his playing” has likened him to Liszt, but it is the music of Rachmaninov which piano wunderkind Daniil Trifonov has been recording for release in Australia next month (September 11, 2015). Described by the Washington Post as “a pianist ahead of his time”, Trifonov says of Rachmaninov, “he is one of my…