The passion in wagner
Wagner-mania continues this month with this feature from Paul Mason in The Guardian.
Wagner-mania continues this month with this feature from Paul Mason in The Guardian.
Scroll down to see all eight images from Opera Australia’s current production of Verdi’s Otello. Read our review of Otello Images by Branco Gaica, courtesy Opera Australia.
One of the great pioneers of historically informed performance, Nikolaus Harnoncourt has died in Vienna aged 86. Just last year, on December 5, one day before his 86th birthday, the audience of the Concentus Musicus Wien, the ensemble that he founded in 1953, found a personal letter of farewell from him in its evening programme….
This week we learnt with sadness of the death of soprano Elizabeth Connell. She thrilled audiences in Sydney and round the world with her voice and her interpretations of the great dramatic roles like Turandot, Lady Macbeth and Elektra. She sang on the most famous stages around the world – Prague, Hamburg, the Royal Opera…
Written by Deborah Humble Graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2014, 28 year old Australian Soprano Michelle Ryan is taking the right steps towards a career in Europe and at home. Earlier this year she won the German Australia Opera Grant. The award promotes emerging Australian opera singers in the early stages of…
Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) has launched its third Online Orchestra national music project. Instrumentalists and singers everywhere are invited to join the biggest virtual orchestra in Australia and to start preparing their entry for submission.
There are three copies of Friar Alessandro’s new CD release Voice from Assisi from Universal Records to be won, just in time for Christmas – spoil yourself, or someone else! Read our review of the Voice from Assisi How to enter: email [email protected] by 5 pm on Friday 7th December 2012 with subject heading please enter ‘Voice’. Winners will be…