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In her first studio album for five years, Russian soprano Anna Netrebko celebrates the Verdi bicentenary and the dramatic power of his music with a new recording on the Deutsche Grammophon label, available from August 9th. Anna Netrebko – Verdi is a compilation of arias selected by Netrebko herself. They include some rarely heard works from major…
First there was the short story by n Annie Proulx. Then there was the Ang Lee directed movie starring the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Now there is the opera, Charles Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain, which premiered last month in at the Teatro Real in Madrid. As reported in The Guardian, Wuorinen says that he wanted to…
The Music Performance Unit UNSW has announced two composition prizes for 2020, the Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize and the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize. Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize is a new composition prize, on offer in 2020-only. The winning applicant will be commissioned to compose a short, new work for either: SATB choir with piano or…
Kathy Evans of the Sydney Morning Herald reports on the memoirs of Richard Gill: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/students-the-winners-as-gill-denied-his-concert-dream-20121111-296bh.html
Beautiful images from the production which will screen in Sydney over the next week. Scroll down to see all 8 images.. Click here for more information.
Being a composer has never been an easy career. Judging from this feature in The Guardian, things are as difficult as they ever were for career composers.