Anne Sofie von Otter in Sydney
The world fanous mezzo-soprano performs in Sydney with the SSO this week:
The world fanous mezzo-soprano performs in Sydney with the SSO this week:
Omega Ensemble’s principal wind musicians are back with a new instalment of musical favourites, full of colour and bravura in Summer Winds II. From the simple style of Damase to the surprising sounds of Berio, this performance also includes the recently re-discovered and restored Wind Quintet by Gustav Holst, as well as the world premiere…
The historic Independent Theatre presents a series of four concerts through Sydney’s winter months, featuring the Enigma Quartet, the Flinders Quartet, the Marais Project and more. Each takes place on the third Sunday of the month, from May to August and all include complimentary refreshments at intermission. The Enigma Quartet performs the first afternoon of…
There is a rare chance to hear the legendary American soprano Beverly Sills in a classic telecast of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Joyce DiDonato as the Lady of the Lake in Rossini’s take on Sir Walter Scott, William Kentridge’s ingenious staging of Shostakovich’s The Nose, Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena finding love in Donizetti’s La Fille du…
Presented by The Pearl and Dagger Company, The Raven features music and melodrama of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.Romantic, dark and a little bit surreal, this concert will feature Edgar Allen Poe’s cult-status poem The Raven set for narrator and solo piano by English composer, Stanley Harry Hawley in 1899. Singer and actor Owen Elsley will be performing The…
Resonance Concerts and Events presents tenor Koen van Stade and pianist Amanda Miller in a mesmerising selection of Schubert’s songs, all of which strike nerves within us all in their sense of solitude within our enormous world. Schubert’s songs are almost unparalleled in their ability to speak very personally to the listener. Whilst the Austrian composer…
For the fourth tour of the 2012 Selby & Friends concert season, pianist Kathryn Selby is joined by British violinist Elizabeth Layton, former member of the famed Nash Ensemble and leader of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Australian violist Glen Donnelly and virtuoso cellist Julian Smiles, in a program of masterpiece for piano quartet. The programme includes My Song…