Eight outstanding young vocalists have been selected to progress to the final of the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship in their quest for prizes worth a total of $58,500 on offer for professional development. The 2017 Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship Finalists are: sopranos Amanda Windred, Jessica Harper, Joelene Griffith, Imogen-Faith Malfitano and Zoe Drummond, mezzo-soprano Bronwyn…
Operantics Sydney’s youngest opera company presents Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece, La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker), following their recent successful presentations of Cosi fan Tutte, Mansfield Park, Gentleman’s Island and The Telephone. La Sonnambula started life in Paris in 1827 as a ballet, at the height of a fashion for stage works incorporating somnambulism. Its first operatic performance took…
Punching above its weight in talent and ambition, Sydney’s new kid on the block, Harbour City Opera presents Puccini’s 1 – act opera Suor Angelica, the tale of a young woman forced by her family to retreat to a nunnery as a result of an indiscretion. For seven years she waits for news of her…