News
More soloists announced for Sappho
In November last year, Sounds Like Sydney published an interview with emerging conductor Jennifer Condon, presently working as Souffleuse at…
Month: March 2012
News
opera update….an new name for the opera theatre
How did this get past us??! The opera theatre of the Sydney Opera House will be named in honour of Dame Joan…
Shows
Ballads by Candlelight from the idea of north
The magic of a candlelit century old church is the setting for The Idea of North’s next Sydney concert in April. In…
News
Dancing with the piano – Zubin Kanga performs in London
Pianist Zubin Kanga recently performed a programme of ‘new music’ in London. It involved ideas that brooked traditional concepts of how the…
Shows
The Sirius Ensemble: chamber works from Beethoven and contemporary France
The Sirius Chamber Ensemble presents its inaugural concert for 2012 with an innovative programme that welcomes back guest flautist Helen Vidovich, visiting…
News
Jonathan Lemalu learns a libretto in a new language
Grammy Award winning New Zealand born bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu (he’s sung Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for OA in Sydney) has had to…
News
Quotas on overseas singers: another view
Baritone Peter Coleman-Wright offers a view on the suggestion by OA artitic director Lyndon Terracini that quotas be lifted on the hiring of…
Shows
St John Passion – Sydney Chamber Choir and the Adelaide Chamber Singers collaborate
The St John Passion BWV 245 was Johann Sebastian Bach’s first and is his most oft performed passion. It’s a repository of…
News
Casting quotas in opera
OA artistic director Lyndon Terracini believes that quotas on the hiring of non-Australian singers should be lifted. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/lyndon-terracini-blasts-prehistoric-union-opera-quota/story-e6frg8n6-1226310782416
Shows
Omega and Tedeschi: “Magic can happen”
Pianist Simon Tedeschi is one of those rare talents adept at performing both jazz with its improvisational adventures, and classical music in style. His performing partners…