Sydney has a new opera company! With a name that reflects Sydney’s brilliant waterfront location and sophistication, Harbour City Opera has been founded to provide opportunities for the many talented emerging and established professionals on stage and behind the scenes to perform fully staged roles in exquisite, well produced operas. For their opening offering, Harbour City Opera is…
Love, death, longing or just sheer beauty, the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s August concert has music to warm your heart this winter. On the programme are the ominously dramatic of overture to Verdi’s opera The Force of Destiny, (featured on the soundtrack of the classic French films, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources),…
The writings of William Shakespeare offer rich picking for composers through the years, seeking to tell stories in music. Artsong NSW has drawn on the works of The Bard for its concert this weekend, Shakespeare in Song. Sopranos Sarah Ann Walker and Alexandra Oomens, mezzo-soprano Anna Yun and baritone Christopher Hillier perform with lutenist Oskar de Mari Jones and pianist…