The Sydney Symphony Orchestra prepares to open its 2012 season with four performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony over the coming week. Check out this witty Q and A with Philip Glass from the UK Guardian on the curse of composing a Ninth Symphony.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/05/pass-notes-ninth-symphony
Opening tonight at the Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre – Opera Australia’s production of Gounod’s Faust, directed by David McVicar. Check out these images – scroll down to see all eight. Images courtesy Opera Australia
There are three copies of Nicola Benedetti’s new CD release The Silver Violin from Universal Records to be won, just in time for Christmas – spoil yourself, or someone else! Read our review and interview with Nicola Benedetti How to enter: email [email protected] by 5 pm on Friday 7th December 2012 with subject heading please enter ‘Silver Violin’. Winners…
Pinchgut Opera’s recent brilliant performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers at Sydney’s City Recital Hall, was professionally filmed and recorded and is streaming now for unlimited viewing.
For a limited time, purchase a ticket to Selby and Friends’ First, Last and Only concert and receive one additional free ticket to this concert. This offer is only valid for the April 11th performance and expires on Sunday 31 March. Violinist Suzie Park, joins Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve (Principal Cello with the Australian Chamber Orchestral and acclaimed pianist, founder and…
Two recent cinema releases focus on the dynamics amongst classical musicians. Click here to read the New York Times feature on Quartet, directed by Dustin Hoffmann and starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins; and A Late Quartet, directed by Yaron Silberman, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Mark Ivanir and Catherine Keener.
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra launched its 2018 concert series at the City Recital Hall last night with an evening of superbly performed English music. Counter-tenor Maximilian Riebl joined the instrumental ensemble and the Brandenburg Choir for Thomas Tallis’ England, in which they performed music spanning four centuries and several styles. Check out the images from opening…