Commemorating Sydney Eisteddfod’s 80th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of the Sydney Cove Rotary Club, the Sydney Eisteddfod presents the inaugural Australian Choral Grand Prix, an event which carries $25,000 in prize value and will undoubtedly be hotly contested by the 6 choirs competing for the title. Vying for the prize are the 1st and 2nd placegetters of the Sydney Eisteddfod…
Get a taste of Verdi’s rambunctious opera Verdi’s Falstaff which opened in Sydney last Friday. Warwick Fyfe sings the bawdy title role with Amelia Farrugia, Jacqueline Dark, Domenica Matthews, Lorina Gore, John Longmuir, Graeme McFarlane and Jud Arthur and Kanen Breen as the twin numbskulls Pistol and Bardolph adding burlesque and slapstick to their hugely demanding vocal performances….
Image by Branco Gaica, courtesy Opera Australia. Opera Australia’s production of Falstaff opens in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House tonight, Friday February 15th, in its continuing ‘Verdi-fest’. Based on Shakespeare’s comic play The Merry Wives of Windsor, this production is directed by Simon Phillips and conducted by Antony Walker. Warwick Fyfe…