After the AWO…
Matthew Westwood of The Australian evalutes the “performance” of the AWO:
Similar Posts
Music Fit for A King – Decca Records Coronation Album
Monarchist or not it is hard to igonre the feast of music that will accompany the festivities surrounding the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla this weekend.
Was J S Bach A ‘Tedious Old Windbag’?
More than 250 years after his death, scholars of JS Bach continue to peel away the layers revealing new information and giving rise to new propositions about the composer whose music is a cornerstone of the western music canon. The fall of the Berlin Wall laid bare to the west a previously undiscovered repository of…
Willoughby Symphony’s Inaugural Online Mini-Concert – Great For The Kids!
To celebrate its new Facebook page, Willoughby Symphony presents a mini virtual concert (hopefully the first of many) – A Spoonful Of Sugar, especially fun for the kids, conducted by George Ellis with soloists from the Pacific Opera alumni. Watch on Facebook and please like and share. You can sing along as well!
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 meet a new challenge – that of learning a libretto in Chinese. He talks about it in this blog. (The Grammy Award was in 2010 for Best Opera Recording Billy Budd) http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/mar/26/learning-to-sing-chinese-songs
Selby & Friends ‘A Final Offering’ Online
Kathryn Selby, AM presents A Final Offering, a spectacular performance with an elite ensemble of musical friends to round out her 2020 Season online, on demand, from Friday 6 November. Sydney’s magnificent City Recital Hall is again the venue for this exciting, high-quality filmed-live concert, with special features. It replaces the planned live November…
Mozart’s Final Year
The last days of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart abound in myth and mystery. Writer, broadcaster and lecturer Richard Wigmore unravels the events of Mozart’s final year in Gramophone Magazine.
