Emma Moore wins ‘The Mathy’
Congratulations to soprano Emma Moore from New South who has won the 2011 Marianne Mathy Award. More at:
Congratulations to soprano Emma Moore from New South who has won the 2011 Marianne Mathy Award. More at:
Fresh from thrilling audiences with her portrayals of Erda and Waltraute in Neil Armfield’s production of The Ring by Wagner for Opera Australia in 2013, mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble is back in Australia for more Wagner and even more besides, with Mendelssohn and Handel on her schedule – none of it in the opera theatre. Humble is in…
As the Tokyo String Quartet continues its final tour before disbanding, the Australian String Quartet gives its last concerts with violinist Anne Horton and cellist Rachel Johnston. Matthew Westwood reports in The Australian that the members of the TSQ “will hand back their instruments – two violins, a viola and cello made by Antonio Stradivari and once…
This month, the 2018 Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows will embark on the first international Fellows tour in the Orchestra’s Fellowship history. From 13-19 October to China, the Fellows will be guests of the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture, Broadcasting, Television, Press and Publication, as part of the annual 2018 Nanjing Art Festival in Nanjing. Led…
Opera Australia’s realist double-bill Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci opened in Sydney last week. Visually and musically sumptuous with dramatic performances, here are some images from Cavalleria Rusticana with images from Pagiliacci in the next post. Read our review from opening night. The double-bill runs till February 4 in Sydney and moves to Melbourne in May 2017. Scroll…
From the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue comes an 8 CD set of recordings The Originals, by some of the greatest legends of classical music (DG 4794110). Recorded at various times between 1965 and 1980 in venues like the Vienna Musikverein Grosser Saal, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Hanover Beethovensaal and the Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin, the recordings were originally…
Funding of $32 million for the nation’s opera companies is to come under the scrutiny of a three person panel. Read the feature in The Australian