A sneak peek at the set design for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. This year Opera Australia presents Verdi’s grand masterpiece Aida.
Sopranos Latonia Moore and Daria Masiero will share the role of Aida. Directed by Gale Edwards with costume and set design by Mark Thompson, Aida will run from 27 March to 26 April 2015.
SoundsLikeSydney is excited to announce the launch this week of our free monthly newsletter SoundsClassic. Our inaugural edition is packedwith news – we have the ‘wrap’ on Melbourne’s Ring cycle, musings on Christmas music, a Messiah quiz to challenge you, reviews of some of the many CDs released during 2013 in case you’re stuck for…
SoundsLikeSydney has 3 double passes to give away to the IFAC Australian Singing Competition finals on August 30th, at the Sydney Conservatorium. The five finalists – Kate Amos, Anna Voshege, Samantha Clarke, Corinne Cowling and Isabella Moore will perform with the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra conducted by Maestro Johannes Fritzsch. The compere for the evening will…
Good news for music lovers who love the touch of a CD, its shimmer and the prospect of leaving an archive as a legacy for posterity. To complement the world of music streams and on-demand consumption, Universal Music Australia introduces Classics Direct – an online retailer specialising in classical and jazz music CDs, DVDs, Bluray…
Imagine the excitement on the plane as the singers of the Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir (GICC) take off to Vienna in May, on the first leg of Vienna – Cairns – Sydney, a two-stage collaboration between the two flagship children’s choirs of Austria and Australia. In 2017, Austria’s legendary Vienna Boys Choir and Australia’s Cairns…
The unique operatic heritage of two of Australia’s greatest icons, Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge will be celebrated and preserved for posterity in a limited release collection from Universal Music in association with the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonyge Foundation. Only 90 copies have been produced of this deluxe limited edition exclusive to the…
It was not so long ago that we heard with heavy hearts, that the SBS Youth Orchestra was to be disbanded in 2013 after 25 very successful years of performing, touring and nurturing young musicians. Out of this ending though, came a new beginning with the formation of a new symphony orchestra for young musicians…