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Finding Fondness for Two Flutes is a new album released as an ABC Classic Composer Commission containing a set of five duets for flute, performed by flautists The Emerald Ruby and Sally Walker.
Exactly a year ago, mezzo-soprano Margaret Plummer packed up her family, said ‘goodbye’ to friends and relocated to Vienna to follow her dream. A familiar face – and voice – on the Sydney opera stage, she had been awarded the Vienna State Opera Award from Opera Foundation Australia and opportunity beckoned. A graduate of the Sydney…
Opera Australia is relaunching its NSW Schools Tour with Rossini’s hilarious opera ‘The Barber of Seville,’ on tour from March to September.
Pioneering actress and opera director Elke Neidhardt AM died yesterday aged 72. Born in Stuttgart, she worked as a director of opera in Europe before taking up a post as resident director with Opera Australia in 1977, a post she held till 1990. In Australia she is known particularly for directing the first full modern Australian production…
It’s on again! The world’s biggest music festival, the BBC Proms, will run for nearly 2 months in 2013 from July 12th to September 7th. Paganini and the sea feature in the famed opening night programme with Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony alongside Paganini inspired compositions by Rachmaninov and Lutoslawski….
In breaking news, Opera Australia has announced the resignation of CEO Craig Hassall AM, who has been appointed Chief Executive at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2017. Mr Hassall has given Opera Australia 6 months’ notice during which time the company will commence a search for a suitable replacement. Opera Australia’s Chairman, David Mortimer AO…