Glyndebourne Open House continues this week with Jonathan Kent’s stylish production of Don Giovanni, starring Gerald Finlay in the title role, Kate Royal as Donna Elvira and conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.
Beginning at 5 pm on Sunday 31 May and continuing for a week, this production will be available free on YouTube and the Glyndebourne website.
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Soprano Sara Macliver and pianist Ian Munro, present well-known and not-so-well-known art songs about women in Songs My Mother Taught Me. The duo aim to nurture and develop the Art Song which is an increasingly rare format. “It is not that long ago that everyone knew what art song was” Macliver says, “and everyone performed it,…
The Song Company directed by Antony Pitts, presents A Strange Eventful History, a new work in which theatre and concert program converge, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A Strange Eventful History draws on scholar Gary Watt’s work on performance rhetoric for the Royal Shakespeare Company and his forthcoming book Shakespeare’s Acts of Will. The…
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Following their romancing of the voice in their recent Mozart Requiem programme, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra showcases some of its own players as soloists, going back in time with Blazing Baroque. Recently appointed concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen will perform on the baroque violin, with flautist Melissa Farrow and recorder player Mikaela Oberg featuring as soloists in the virtuosic concertos selected…
To open The Marais Project’s 17th season Marais Project Director, Jenny Eriksson, has collaborated with leading young Australian actor, writer and film maker, James Fraser (The Water Diviner, The Devil’s Playground and The Turning) to create Master and Pupil, a new musical-theatrical event. Together, they have formulated a series of penetrating and moving reflections in…