Operaquatics – more production shots from La traviata on Sydney Harbour
Australian theatre director Benedict Andrews’ vision of Puccini’s opera La bohème opened at the English National Opera this week. The director has raised controversy again (remember his 2012 imagining of The Marriage of Figaro for Opera Australia?) with his portrayal of Mimi and Rodolfo as heroin addicts. Read the review in The Guardian, in The Telegraph and The…
The flagship chamber music series at the Sydney Opera House, Utzon Music will return in 2020 for its 13th year. From March to December, the 2020 program will continue to present some of the world’s most celebrated classical musicians while embracing new performers, influences and genres including folk, jazz and world music, In March, Welsh…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Bittersweet Obsessions opens in Sydney tonight at the City Recital Hall and runs till 1 November. It is a dramatic staging of music from the Renaissance and the Baroque that fuses music, drama and design. Joining the ABO musicians on stage are rising New Zealand soprano Natasha Wilson with tenors Karim Sulayman from…
…by Peter McCallum for the Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/travelling-the-world-in-music-and-lyrics-20110819-1j278.html
Premiering in Sydney tonight is the eagerly anticipated new James Bond film Spectre – and the soundtrack has a very special Sydney connection. The film uses a track from a recording of Vivaldi’s music, made in Sydney in 2000 by German countertenor Andreas Scholl and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, conducted by its Artistic Director Paul Dyer. The track…
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has a new CEO beginning 1 January 2018, and it’s Emma Dunch. Emma Dunch, originally from Sydney, has worked in arts administration for over 2 decades. She returns from New York where she has lived since 1999 and most recently headed DUNCH – a cultural management firm she founded in 2008 that…