The Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation is presenting a special charity fundraising concert in aid of the 2015 Bel Canto Award for young singers.Performing in the concert will be 14 emerging opera artists who will perform a selection of Rossini songs, arias, duets, quartets and the hilarious Act 1 Finale from L’italiana in Algeri, accompanied…
Handel: Messiah St Mary’s Singers St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney 6 December 2014 Performances of Handel’s Messiah are a habitual prelude to the Christmas season, with presentations in churches and concert halls throughout the country. Musical styles are as varied as the performance locations, ranging from attempts to recreate original eighteenth century practices to massed…
The Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award for 2014 has been won by 27-year-old Marlena Devoe, a Samoan soprano from New Zealand singing Depuis le jour from Louise by Charpentier and Ah!non credea mirarti….Ah non giunge from Bellini’s La Sonnambula. Devoe has won $30,000 along with a place in the 2015 Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto in Tuscany, Italy…