The Con Celebrates Its Centenary With Bernstein’s Mass

The Con Celebrates Its Centenary With Bernstein’s Mass

To mark its official birthday on 6 May 2015, the Sydney Conservatorium will present an epic performance of Mass by Leonard Bernstein, staged at the Sydney Opera House and performed by over 400 high school and tertiary students, staff and alumni of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and guest performers from Sydney Children’s Choir.  This theatrical piece…

A Sneak Peek At Butterfly

A Sneak Peek At Butterfly

Sydney’s star-gazers could be forgiven for an element of confusion over the next couple of weeks as not one but two moons and two suns float over Sydney harbour. The two gleaming orbs are part of Handa on Sydney Harbour’s 2014 production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly which opens of Friday March 21st and runs every…

The ‘RingWrap’- the Second Cycle From A Sydneysider’s Perspective

The ‘RingWrap’- the Second Cycle From A Sydneysider’s Perspective

Opera Australia: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner Second Cycle State Theatre, Melbourne 27 November – 4 December 2013 During November and December Opera Australia presented the first staging of Wagner’s Ring on the east coast of Australia for 100 years.  The individual operas of the first cycle have been perceptively reviewed on this website…