Shows
Lux Aeterna from bel a capella
This weekend Bel a capella presents ‘Lux Aeterna’, a clever programme of mostly 20th century gems of choral music. The repertoire pairs…
Month: April 2012
Shows
The Arts Unit presents ‘In Concert’
This week, over 600 students from the length and breadth of New South Wales are busy with preparations for In Concert, an…
News
Welcome David Zinman
Acclaimed conductor David Zinman conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra during May this year in two programmes. Zinman is the Music Director of the Tonhalle in…
Shows
Oz opera’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’ is a family affair
Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel had its origins as a family affair. Humperdink’s sister Adelheid Wette asked him to set to music four…
News
The Australian Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
Sydneysiders in New York this week could do worse than to spend the evening of April 30th (Monday) at the Carnegie’s Zankel Hall to hear the…
Shows
Emma Matthews in recital – a programme of everything you’ve ever wanted to hear her sing!
Following her immensely popular success as Violetta in La Traviata performed on Sydney Harbour, soprano Emma Matthews takes to a more intimate…
News
The Met’s first Ring Cycle is completed
The first of three complete ‘Ring’ cycles, directed by Robert Lepage and staged by The Met this spring, is over. The…
Shows
Simon Tedeschi with the North Sydney Symphony
International concert pianist Simon Tedeschi joins the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Steven Hillinger to perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and the second…
Reviews
Poèmes – Renee Fleming
Renee Fleming’s new CD Poèmes celebrates Gallic vocal music from Ravel’s Orientalist infused Shéhérazade, written at the turn of the last century and Messiaen’s Poèmes…
News
The movements that make the music
This is an absolutely fascinating animation from the New York Times of the connection between a conductor’s gestures, the responses of the…