Update on the ‘Ring’
Click here to read Matthew Westwood’s update on the Melbourne Ring cycle in The Australian.
Click here to read Matthew Westwood’s update on the Melbourne Ring cycle in The Australian.
The Sydney Eisteddfod is calling for participants to enter its 2021 festival. Entries close March 12, 2021.
Orchestra Victoria, the Melbourne based orchestra scheduled to play for the Melbourne Ring Cycle and which plays for the Australian Ballet, Opera Australia and the Victorian Opera, is under review. The Australian reports: Click here to read.
It seems that this opera has a phantom that simply can’t be shaken. The Melbourne production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle scheduled for late 2013 is seeking a conductor at short notice after the designated conductor Richard Mills resigned. Productions of Wagner’s Ring are said to be jinxed – a phenomenon discussed in Stephen Fry’s excellent 2010 BBC…
For their latest album Songs Without Words, (ABC Classics) guitarist brothers Slava and Leonard have gathered a collection of songs with and without words in novel and beautiful arrangements, by their father Edward for two guitars. The arrangements own a special understanding of the music and the performers; the playing by the brothers contains its own…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra is the beneficiary of the largesse of Peter Weiss AO, one of Australia’s most dedicated arts philanthropists and a successful businessman. He has donated to the ensemble an exceptionally fine and extremely rare cello. Made by Giuseppe Guarneri filius Andreæ in 1729, the cello is valued at A$1,800,000. This is the…
More stunning images from Madama Butterfly, the production for 2014 Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour which opens tomorrow night. Scroll down to see all four images. Images by James Morgan, courtesy Opera Australia.