Susan Graham Interviewed
Legendary Mezzo soprano Susan Graham performs in Sydney tonight accompanied by the equally legendary pianist Malcolm Martineau. This is the link to a recent interview.
Legendary Mezzo soprano Susan Graham performs in Sydney tonight accompanied by the equally legendary pianist Malcolm Martineau. This is the link to a recent interview.
Soprano Maria José Siri and tenor Gregory Kunde lead a superstar international cast, starring as the ill-fated lovers at the centre of Manon Lescaut,Puccini’s passionate opera about a free-spirited country girl who becomes the toast of Paris and finds herself torn between true love and a life of luxury. This sumptuous opera – Puccini’s first…
Exciting new chamber music ensemble Ensemble Polyphème presents their inaugural performance – Handel’s Acis and Galatea. This beautiful semi-staged production of a rarely performed work uses historically informed performance practice to explore the beautiful love story of Acis and Galatea performed in Paddington’s Uniting Church. Founded by Nathan Cox and Nathan Bryon, two young musicians…
The Berlin based Kuss Quartet joined by Principal Viola of the Berlin Philharmonic, Naoko Shimizu, continues its national tour with a second concert in Sydney, under the auspices of Music Viva. Their first performance in Sydney last week included Gordon Kerry’s String Quintet, Bedrich Smenata’s String Quartet no 2 in D minor, György Kurtag’s Officium Breve in Memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, op…
Actor, singer, writer and director Tyran Parke joins The Metropolitan Orchestra as narrator for this year’s rendition of Prokofiev’s classic tale, Peter and The Wolf. Tyran has worked on over 50 professional productions as an actor, director and writer. Highlights include the Babies Proms at The Sydney Opera House,The Sound of Music, Oliver!, Eurobeat, Assassins, Evita, Sunset…
Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud joins the Australian Chamber Orchestra as soloist and guest director for a September national tour, Grieg and Beyond, which celebrates the music of Norway’s most well-known composer. The concert includes a world premiere by Ross Edwards and the Australian premieres of music by Kraggerud himself. Henning Kraggerud is Artistic Director of the Arctic Philharmonic…
Opera Australia presents the premiere of a new production of the chamber opera Metamorphosis by Brian Howard, in the scenery workshop of The Opera Centre in Surry Hills. This massive space in which OA’s sets and props are built, will be transformed into an innovative performance area, adding edgy intensity to Howard’s opera written in 1982, to…