‘Salome’ provides capital entertainment
The Sydney Opera House is back in business, after closing in March, welcoming audiences and visitors from 29 October, 2020 with a tempting line-up of live performances and events. The line-up includes the return of Antidote, the Opera House’s annual festival of action, ideas and change that will bring together thought-leaders from around the world…
Composer Max Richter announces the release of VOICES, a major new recording project inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The first single from this important new work, All Human Beings is already available on Decca Records, accompanied by a new music video. VOICES was released on 31 July, 2020. ‘VOICES’, described as a…
In an overnight transformation, mezzo-soprano Milijana Nikolic has shed several decades from her persona and gone from singing the role of one doomed gypsy to another. The day after the closing performance of Il Trovatore, in which she portrayed Azucena, she was rehearsing the role of Carmen which she will sing in Handa Opera on…
Mozart opera fans, this is surely your idea of heaven! The Complete Mozart Operas, is a new release of 33 High-Definition DVDs which contain performances of all of Mozart’s, including his early and lesser-known operas, every Singspiel, and orchestration of scenic fragments, presented over 47 hours of live recordings, 112 solo performers, 14 directors and…
BBC correspondent Peter Day spends time in Cremona, Italy, the home of hand crafted stringed instruments for 5 centuries, looking at how these instruments were created then and now.
Triple Grammy Award winner Hilary Hahn returns to solo Bach twenty years after her debut recording. This recording of Sonatas 1 & 2 and Partita 1, her debut on the Decca label, completes Hilary’s solo Bach recordings and was released in Australia earlier this month. The disc contains the Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor, BWV…