The 2013 Sydney Festival!
The 2013 Sydney Festival is launched!!
The 2013 Sydney Festival is launched!!
If you remember soprano Sumi Jo’s sudden departure from Sydney and the role of Lucia and the more recent cancellations of tours by Jessye Norman and Deborah Voigt, then you’re no stranger to the vagaries of casting in opera. Zachary Woolf of the New York Times takes a closer look: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/arts/music/karita-mattila-and-peter-gelb-on-cancellations.html?ref=music
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees in the 2024 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards, revealed at a ceremony at Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne/ Naarm on 14 August.
Funding of $32 million for the nation’s opera companies is to come under the scrutiny of a three person panel. Read the feature in The Australian
Fifteen of the most offbeat works in classical music – can you pick them?! From the baroque to the contemporary these composers thought outside the square in creating these works. Read the feature in Classical-Music.com.
Sad news today that the music world has lost two of its great conductors – Sir Jeffrey Tate and Jiří Bělohlávek. Sir Jeffrey Tate (74), was well-known to Australian audiences as Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He was scheduled to conduct them again in October this year. He is reported…
Perth-based violinist Shaun Lee-Chen has been appointed Concertmaster of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra for 2016. In announcing the appointment, Paul Dyer, Artistic Director of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra said “Shaun Lee-Chen is one of the most exciting and inspired violinists of his generation. Amongst the world’s emerging baroque violinists, he is one of the players who’ll pave…