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Opera in Sydney – A Sign of our Times
In an interview on radio some years ago, Adrian Collette, then CEO of Opera Australia (OA) was challenged with the assertion that…
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Patricia Rozario to sing the music of Glanville-Hicks
Soprano Patricia Rozario is in Brisbane this week to sing the music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks in a festival of Indian music. Born in Mumbai, she has been…
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‘Mozart the Great’ – behind the scenes with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, choir and soloists
An intimate look at the preparations for the Australian Bandenburg Ochestra’s current season of Mozart the Great at the City Recital Hall.…
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Britten in rehearsal
He was an exacting taskmaster, as this invaluable archival footage demonstrates. Benjamin Britten is seen rehearsing his choral overture The Building of the…
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Andrew Mellor on ‘Albert Herring’
In this centenary year of Benjamin Britten’s birth, Opera Australia is presenting his satirical gem Albert Herring in the Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre in August. Conducted…
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Daniel Harding to conduct LSO in Sir Colin Davis Proms tribute.
Recently the music world mourned the death of conductor Sir Colin Davis, a world figure in his field and the longest serving conductor of the London Symphony…
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Opera in Australia – headed where?
The Australian reports that singers on 12 month contracts with Opera Australia will be rested for upto 12 weeks without pay in 2013.…
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The Goldner String Quartet: ‘one of the finest around’
The Goldner String Quartet is spending this week as Ensemble-in-Residence at the Oxford May Music festival. Their opening performance at the festival…
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James Rhodes: On being a concert pianist
“My life involves endless hours of repetitive and frustrating practising, lonely hotel rooms, dodgy pianos, aggressively bitchy reviews, isolation, confusing airline reward…
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The passion in wagner
Wagner-mania continues this month with this feature from Paul Mason in The Guardian.