English tenor Allan Clayton and Australian-born, London-based pianist Kate Golla joined forces for a performance of Winterreise, Franz Schubert’s iconic song-cycle with text by poet Wilhelm Müller, sung in German with English surtitles. This remarkable performance deserves unrestrained acclamation.
Pinchgut Opera presents Handel’s last opera and masterpiece Theodora with a cast and creative team headed by Erin Helyard and directed by Lindy Hume. In the narrative, Theodora is the leader of the Christian community in Antioch: a young woman whose life of virtue has inspired many to embrace her faith – including the Roman officer Didymus,…
For its December 2014 production, Pinchgut Opera will perform Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. Considered to be Gluck’s best work, it is the sixth of seven operas he wrote in Paris. It is a rarely performed masterwork and with it, Pinchgut Opera also marks the 300 anniversary of Gluck’s birth. Iphigénie en Tauride is an intensely dramatic…