Did you know you can go on a tour of The Opera Centre at 480 Elizabeth Street Surry Hills (5 minutes walk from Central Station)? In an hour and a half you will see the making of props and sets, wigs and costumes, hear artists in rehearsal and learn fascinating facts from behind the scenes.
Phone the Box Office on 9250 7777 to book a tour for groups of 2 to 40 people.
Available today is a new recording of Vivaldi’s vocal music Gloria, from the brilliant soprano Julia Lezhneva, with Argentinian counter-tenor Franco Fagioli and Swiss organist and conductor Diego Fasolis conducting the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera and I Barocchisti, today’s Vivaldi interpreters par excellence. These stars of the Baroque have collaborated to record Vivaldi’s Gloria in D major RV 589, his…
There are three copies of Nicola Benedetti’s new CD release The Silver Violin from Universal Records to be won, just in time for Christmas – spoil yourself, or someone else! Read our review and interview with Nicola Benedetti How to enter: email [email protected] by 5 pm on Friday 7th December 2012 with subject heading please enter ‘Silver Violin’. Winners…
The Music Performance Unit UNSW is calling for entries in the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize for 2024.
Brandenburg One, the digital platform of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra presents flautist Melissa Farrow performing the Bourée Anglaise from JS Bach’s Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013. Melissa Farrow, who is the Principal Flautist of The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, has travelled close to this only surviving piece by JS Bach for solo…
Check out this year’s winners of The Helpmann Awards: http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/site/_content/document/00000185-source.pdf
Written by composer and jazz saxophonist Spike Mason, FLYING was inspired by a poem written by the Tasmanian poet Di Adams about someone waking up and realising that they can FLY! Originally from Sydney, now based in Tasmania, Spike composed this work while flying back and forth to work each week in Sydney. FLYING is…