‘Collusion’ The Marais Project: Jenny Eriksson with Susie Bishop, Emily-Rose Šárkova and Eliska Sarka Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium 24 August 2014. 2014 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Marais Project and their director Jennifer Eriksson has adopted a theme of Re-imaginings which she explains is ‘taking the opportunity to re-imagine my instrument, the viola da…
In her own words, “Schumann and Schubert are central contenders for my heart”, and thus it was that these composers formed the core of the programme which pianist Imogen Cooper CBE, performed during her present tour for Music Viva. Speaking before the second half of her concert in Sydney this week, Cooper observed that…
The Elixir of Love (L’elisir d’amore) Melodramma giocoso in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Felice Romani, after Eugène Scribe’s text for Daniel-François-Esprit Auber’s Le philtre (1831); Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, August 11th, 2014. After a very popular and beautifully executed season of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in 2013,…