Opera Australia’s new production of Rossini’s The Turk in Italy opens tonight in Sydney. Here’s a sneak peek at what to expect.
Images by Lisa Tomasetti, courtesy Opera Australia. Scroll down for all 8 images.
She’s a prodigiously gifted singer and actress, recognised for her roles from the high classics, through the great romantics, to music theatre. She owns the stage, be it in opera, on Sydney harbour, in musicals or cabaret. When I spoke to mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Dark in Sydney, she was enjoying some much needed down-time after a…
The cinema world has a long practice of drawing on classical music for its soundtracks. Ligeti, Verdi, Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss and Mozart are just some of the composers whose music has enriched our filmic experience. It is arguably the music of Puccini that has been most frequently used on the big screen. Ian Haydn…
Just when you thought it was time to relax in the humid and langourous hiatus between the end of 2013 concert season and the start 2014, the Sydney Festival brandishes in front of us dozens of unmissable events for all ages and tastes. Running in venues in and around Sydney from January 9th to…
For four years, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has immersed himself exclusively in the piano music of Beethoven. Performing with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra which he has directed from the piano, the project came to an end last weekend at this year’s BBC Proms. Leif Over Andsnes talks about the music which has pre-occupied him…
Happy Birthday George Frideric Handel born this day in 1685! Check out the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s debut performance of Handel’s masterpiece Messiah, which opened at the City Recital Hall last night, with the Brandenburg Choir and soloists. The season runs in Sydney till March 4. Scroll down to see all 7 images. Images by Steven Godbee, courtesy…
Lux Aeterna, is a new album of music by Australian composer Paul Stanhope, performed by the Sydney Chamber Choir and release on ABC Classics on 8 September 2017. ‘Lux Aeterna’ – ‘eternal light’, represents the struggle of light and darkness: an ancient concept, inspiring music-making for centuries. The album brings this search for light into…