The voluptuous beauty of ‘La Traviata’
Check out these 9 glorious images from Opera Australia’s production of La Traviata which opened in Sydney this week. Images by Branco Gaica courtesy of Opera Australia









Check out these 9 glorious images from Opera Australia’s production of La Traviata which opened in Sydney this week. Images by Branco Gaica courtesy of Opera Australia









German composer Detlev Glanert (b 1960) re-orchestrated the Four Serioua Songs of Brahms and augmened them with preludes and a postlude. The work premiered at the BBC Prom in July 2006. Glanert gives his views on the 21st century re-interpretation of Brahms: http://www.boosey.com/cr/news/Detlev-Glanert-on-his-new-orchestration-of-songs-by-Brahms/11281&LangID=1
Italian composer and conductor Ennio Morricone has won over 25 awards internationally, for his film scores. Amongst them, the haunting themes for Sergio Leone’s Westerns ( A Fistfull of Dollars, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, For few Dollars More), The Mission and Bugsy. Quentin Tarantino used some of Morricone’s music in Inglorious Basterdsand co-artists like…
For a number of years in the recent past, Sydneysiders were treated to performances by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra during the first week of August. This annual tour was inaugurated by its Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing, under whose leadership, the TSO also amassed an impressive discography which included the complete Schumann and Mendelssohn symphonies. After…
Musica Viva Australia has announced The IncrediBows as the winner of Strike A Chord 2025. The ensemble has been awarded the Robert Salzer First Prize, of $5,000. The IncrediBows are a string quartet formed in 2022 by four childhood friends, united by enthusiasm and camaraderie. Coached by Tim Li, they were finalists in Strike A…
The title of the concert programme is enigmatic and irresistibly inviting – Dark Twin- music of mystery and multiplicity for piano and multimedia – a recital by London based Australian pianist Zubin Kanga, for the innovative combination of piano, electronics and video. Speaking to SoundsLikeSydney in Sydney, Zubin says “it is all about the interaction…
Nominations are now open for the 2025 Art Music Awards. APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) are calling for members to nominate stand-out Australian art music makers, leaders, works and performances for the 2025 Art Music Awards.