Presented by The Pearl and Dagger Company, The Raven features music and melodrama of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.Romantic, dark and a little bit surreal, this concert will feature Edgar Allen Poe’s cult-status poem The Raven set for narrator and solo piano by English composer, Stanley Harry Hawley in 1899. Singer and actor Owen Elsley will be performing The…
Sydney Antiphony presents its second concert of 2014, Death and Venice, a programme centred around the monumental and macabre ‘Musikalische Exequien’ of 17th century German composer Heinrich Schütz. Taking its cue from Schütz’s beguiling masterpiece, the remaining programme examines death in all its facets and explores musical links between Italy and Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth…
The Pearl and Dagger Company present Cupid and Death, a 17th century English masque that weaves a hilarious yet moralistic tale. A delight for the senses with dancing, singing, theatre and music. Directed by Nadia Piave, choreography by Fiona Garlick of the Early Dance Consort and music from some of Australia’s finest period musicians and singers, this…