Pinchgut Opera, Australia’s only specialist Baroque opera company, concludes the 2022 season with the Australian premiere of Médée by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, one of the greatest operas of the French Baroque era.
The Marais Project presents a selection of the finest English songs in 'A Pilgrime’s Solace: Dowland’s last songs & Danyel’s funeral tears.' Featuring tenor Koen van Stade with lutenist Tommie Andersson and Jenny Eriksson playing the viola da gamba, the concerts celebrate the extraordinary composer and lutenist, John Dowland (1563–1626) whose popularity endures nearly 400 years after he died.
Halcyon presents the world premiere of Elliot Gyger's Autobiochemistry (2019), a new 13-movement work scored for voice and cello, each one named for a different chemical element. This piece which won the prestigious 2022 Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize. Also on the program is the Australian premiere of British composer Nicola Lefanu's The Tongue and the Heart (2008), inspired by newly written love lyrics by John Fuller, and Swedish composer Madeleine Isaksson’s Blad över blad (2000/2019).
The legendary pianist Roger Woodward AC will return to Sydney for one performance celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by its artistic director Paul Terracini.
Castalia Vocal Consort presents Her Eyes, a musical and artistic exploration of Mary as a woman outside of her spiritual status. It features music by Alice Chance, Brooke Shelley, Herbert Howells, Elliot Gyger and Francis Poulenc, paired with the artworks of artists including Botticelli, Da Vinci, and Picasso.
The Australian Haydn Ensemble presents C.P.E. Bach: Universe of Harmony featuring Guest Director and harpsichord soloist Chad Kelly and cello soloist Daniel Yeadon. There are concerts in Bathurst (Tuesday December 13) and Canberra (Wednesday December 14) as well as in Sydney. The Sydney performance will be streamed live on Australian Digital Concert Hall.
River City Voices in partnership with WestWords presents Handel’s Messiah, as you’ve never seen or heard it before, creating a groundbreaking Australian premiere when a choral Christmas tradition meets a beloved Western Sydney art form.
Nicolas Fleury, Principal Horn of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, joins Omega Ensemble for a program containing some of the most glorious music written for French horn including the premiere of apiece commissioned by Omega Ensemble.
The Choir of St James' with Bach Band at St James' performs Handel’s immortal oratorio Messiah, in a unique and intimate chamber setting.
Chanteuse Nadia Piave and her ensemble present Soqquadro Christmas Concert, 2022, the 5th annual Soqquadro event which will be a glorious, miraculous harvest of Christmas folk carols, lullabies, cantios and songs of Christmas cheer.
The Bach in the Dark concert series returns in 2023 with cellist Rachel Scott joined by the Choir of St James, their conductor Warren Trevelyan-Jones, and their organist Marko Sever.
The Opera Australia Chorus of 48 voices performs Chorus!, a selection of popular choruses from opera by the legendary composers of opera.