Opera Australia has announced that the company will undertake an inaugural tour to China this October, presenting Moffatt Oxenbould’s celebrated production of Madama Butterfly. The tour will perform eight performances in four Chinese cities: Tianjin, Qingdao, Shenzhen and Zhuhai. It is Opera Australia’s first multi-city international tour. Oxenbould’s production was performed for the last time in Australia…
Winterreise – Sydney Schubert Society Independent Theatre, North Sydney 20 August 2017 Written by Deen Hamaker Franz Schubert’s Winterreise is one of the pinnacles of the lieder repertoire. It tells of a lonely person’s journey into a bleak winter landscape of snow, ice and bare trees. The 24 songs that make up the cycle explore…
The Sydney Schubert Society presents baritone Barry Ryan OAM and pianist Jeanell Carrigan performing Schubert’s immortal song cycle Winterreise (D911) one of the great Romantic masterpieces and a profound reflection of human fate. , Completed in the autumn of 1827, Winterreise left the composer in a state of exhaustion. According to reports, Schubert had been gravely ill for a long…