Sumptuous costumes by Jenny Tiramani create a visual feast akin to an oil painting in Sir David McVicar’s 2015 production of Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro revived by Opera Australia this month. Scroll down to see all six images.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has appointed 13 leading young musicians from across Australia to its internationally renowned 2024 Fellowship program.
A brand new production of Don Giovanni hits the board tomorrow night in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. Opera Australia has recruited Glaswegian opera and theatre director Sir David McVicar to create this staging. Teddy Tahu Rhodes will again sing the role of ‘the Don’. Accustomed as we are to seeing him clad…
Keeping up with the Grigoryan brothers is no mean feat. This month Slava Grigoryan performs in concert with the Willoughby Symphony, the brothers Leonard and Slava appear on Jose Carbo’s recent release My Latin Heart, but most importantly, between early July and mid-October, they will undertake an extensive national tour from Perth to Townsville…
There is a new a capella vocal ensemble in Sydney. Calling themselves ‘Vocal Detour’ this quintet of elite singers plans to take its audiences and collaborators on a journey through roads less travelled, alongside the familiar classics.
Alison Morgan is a freelance soprano based in Sydney who along with mezzo-soprano Jenny Duck-Chong co-directs acclaimed ensemble Halcyon, Australia’s leading exponent of new chamber music for voice. ‘First Stones’ is Halcyon’s inaugural chamber song project for emerging composers. This is her account of the early stages of this project. The First Stones 2011 Emerging Composers…
Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara has died at the age of 87, following surgical complications. His output includes eight symphonies, nine operas, twelve instrumental concertos, a choral concerto and number of orchestral, chamber, instrumental, choral and vocal works. Read his obituary in The Guardian, in Gramophone magazine.