Sydney Independent Opera celebrates the beginning of a new year of opera in Sydney with a glorious tribute to Giuseppe Verdi, marking the bicentenary of his birth in 1813. The great composer once wrote “…when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and…
Singing Bird Productions brings more fascinating insights into the music favourites of Sydney personalities with Maggie Beer the guest in their September presentation. The cook, food writer, creator of food products and restaurateur has selected some classics from opera for the evening, amongst them Delibes’ Sous le dôme épais (The Flower Duet) from Lakme, Au fond du temple saint…
Sydney Independent Opera present an unusual double bill this weekend with its productions of Gustav Holst’s The Wandering Scholar and Puccini’s The Cloak (Il Tabarro). The Wandering Scholar was Holst’s last and most successful opera (he wrote four)*. It is a work in miniature, written in one act for a small orchestra and just four singers (tenor,…