Created in 1959 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein ll and set in Salzburg, the musical The Sound of Music will finally be seen for the first time in the city where it is set. The BBC looks at why this phenomenally successful stage show has taken so long to come home.
In a long-awaited response to the National Opera Review, chaired by Helen Nugent and released nearly a year ago in October 2016, the federal government has addressed the declining number of Australian opera singers heard on Australian stages by requiring that the nation’s major opera companies employ more Australian singers in an “appropriate balance” or face…
Grab your kids, nieces, nephews and grandchildren and check out this captivating video from the Sydney Opera House, George Meets the Orchestra in which young George talks to the gifted members of the Sydney Youth Orchestra and conductor Brian Buggy OAM, as he discovers more about instruments and decides which one he is going to…
Paris, London, Los Angeles, Berlin – all these cities will host productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in 2012. The London production, is at heaven nighclub and completely re-invents the character…… http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/11/don-giovanni-hero-or-villain
The Renaissance Players’ latest double CD, Pilgrimage to Montserrat, is a welcome opportunity for 21st century listeners to hear a richly varied, yet stylistically true reconstruction of the songs that medieval pilgrims may have played to each other en route to discover the miracles of Montserrat. Pilgrimage to Montserrat, music from the Iberian Peninsula, brings Winsome…
The New Music Network is calling for proposals for the 2014 New Music Mini Series. The New Music Mini Series is a five-part series of concert events that promote or comprise performances by artists and ensembles of ‘the next generation’ within contemporary art music practice. This includes individuals and/or ensembles which are starting out…
French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky admits to a little apprehension about taking to the stage with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra this evening, on the opening night of an 8 concert tour to Sydney and Melbourne. An unusual admission for so seasoned a performer. Yet, it takes a rare strength and assuredness to admit to such vulnerability. Jaroussky…