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Pinchgut Opera Launches 2022 Season
Featuring works by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Cesti and Charpentier, Pinchgut Opera under the artistic direction of Erin Helyard, presents a season brimming with the greatest baroque opera and vocal music ever written. A year to uplift your spirits, make you revel in delight and be swept away by the power and emotion of epic storytelling at…
Sydney Eisteddfod 2021 Moves Online
Sydney Eisteddfod has announced that the 2021 Festival will continue on screen after coming to a sudden halt last June. The 2021 Festival will accept video submissions across all performance genres and the adjudicators will be judging and providing their feedback digitally. Rather than cancel the remainder of the 2021 Festival and, recognising the importance…
Art Music 2021 Winners Announced
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Art Music Awards, announced today. Presented annually by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre (AMC), the Art Music Awards acknowledge the achievements of composers, performers and educators in the genres of contemporary classical music, jazz, improvisation, sound art and experimental music. They include some of Australia’s finest…
Dr Lou Bennett Discusses New Work For Omega Ensemble
Omega Ensemble announces a special online conversation with Dr Lou Bennett on what would have been the world premiere of Bennett’s new work written especially for them. The talk is free but registration is required (see below). Join Bennett in discussion with composer and broadcaster Julian Day as she explores her music, career, and composing…
Adelaide Festival 2022 Opens With A ‘Kosky-kov’ Gem
Barrie Kosky will return to the Adelaide Festival in 2022 with its headline production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s fantasy opera The Golden Cockerel. The result of this collision of genius from Rimsky-Korkov and Kosky has resulted in a brilliant “Kosky-kov” production which will star British-Ukrainian bass-baritone Pavlo Hunka as the king, Russian lyric coloratura soprano Venera Gimadieva…
‘Pinchgut At Home’ Launches This Week
Pinchgut Opera’s Spring Digital Season, via its dedicated online platform, Pinchgut At Home opens on Thursday 9 September with the much anticipated return of Pinchgut’s stunning 60-minute opera film from 2020, A Delicate Fire. A new production will be added to the Spring Digital Season each month, with October featuring the premiere of the filmed…
Latest reviews
Digital Concert Review: Sacro Amor/ Australian Haydn Ensemble
The Australian Haydn Ensemble’s digital performance Sacro Amor is 75 minutes of pure pleasure at any time, but especially so in lockdown.
Album Review: Uncovered Ground – Felicity Wilcox Collected Chamber Works
Wilcox proves that as she presses the ‘play’ button on the music of the future, she doesn’t hit the ‘delete’ button on music of the past. She has drawn on it for inspiration, inclusion and elaboration.