Mozart’s Final Year
The last days of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart abound in myth and mystery. Writer, broadcaster and lecturer Richard Wigmore unravels the events of Mozart’s final year in Gramophone Magazine.
The last days of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart abound in myth and mystery. Writer, broadcaster and lecturer Richard Wigmore unravels the events of Mozart’s final year in Gramophone Magazine.
The four young winners of Opera Australia’s Regional Student Scholarships for 2018 have been announced and they are Bonnie Staude from Albany, WA, Maddie Stephens from the Gold Coast, QLD, Declan Ross from Cairns, QLD and Leah Bateman from Alice Springs, NT. The four teenagers were selected from more than 30 finalists who auditioned during the…
Countertenor Maximilian Riebl (23) from Victoria, took away the coveted winner’s spot in the annual IFAC Australian Singing competition held last weekend. It is the first time since the competition began in 1982, that a counter-tenor has been awarded first place. Maximilian Riebl has performed regularly in Sydney as soloist with the Australian Brandenburg…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has revealed its line up for 2015 – a six programme series that sweeps the baroque and early classical repertoire and which includes music by Handel, Vivaldi, the Bachs and Mozart, performed by soloists from Australia and overseas. Moving on from its 25th year in 2014, Artistic Director of the ABO,…
The Grammies are over for another year and the 59th annual awards ceremony contained 10 categories for classical music out of its total of 84. Notable among the nominees for Best Opera Recording was the Royal Opera’s production of Szymanowski’s Król Roger, a co-production with Opera Australia, currently in an enormously successful season at the Sydney Opera…
“What is the point of having amassed, say, the complete symphonies of the Estonian composer Eduard Tubin (1905-82) when all eleven of them pop up on Spotify, albeit in random order?” New York Times music critic Alex Ross looks at the pros and cons of listening to the classics online.
The legendary bass-baritone Bryn Terfel is in Sydney for just one performance at the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday 30th April 2013. Click here to read his interview with Harriet Cunningham from the Sydney Morning Herald.