Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the youngest knight ever created? And what did the adult knights think of the appointment?!
Today’s The Australian reports on Vatican documents dating back to 1770 in which Pope Clement XIV awarded Mozart the Chivalric Order of the Golden Spur. More at…
Creative Director of Harbour City Opera Sarah Ann Walker talks about why she is forming a new company and announces that Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ is in the line -up for 2014. Sarah Ann Walker admits that she hasn’t slept properly in 7 months. The cause of this insomnia is that she is in the throes of…
Grigory Sokolov has a new album Beethoven Brahms, out now on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Three years after his last recording, Sokolov returns with a 31-track double album of live recordings from his triumphant 2019/20 tour. Included on the double album are Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 3 and the Bagatelles opus 119 along with Brahms’…
It makes sense to be good friends with people you have to work with. Especially if they are people whose characters you have to inhabit. American tenor Arnold Rawls is in Sydney to sing the role of Manrico for Opera Australia in Il Trovatore. Sitting in the Green Room of the Sydney Opera House, Rawls confesses “Manrico is probably…
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra makes its much anticipated inaugural visit to Sydney later this year, performing in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. Celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2013, the highly acclaimed orchestra directed by Maris Jansons is resident in the building of the same name in Amsterdam’s Museum Quarter. The Concertgebouw opened on April 11,…
Just when you thought it was time to relax in the humid and langourous hiatus between the end of 2013 concert season and the start 2014, the Sydney Festival brandishes in front of us dozens of unmissable events for all ages and tastes. Running in venues in and around Sydney from January 9th to…
Author John E. McLennan, Ph.D., has released an new book dedicated to the ‘anatomy ‘of the violin. The Sound Post in the Violin is the result of 30 years’ research into the functions of the sound post and its history. The incomparable and distinctive sound of the violin has captivated music enthusiasts for five hundred…