“They might write it but darling, I don’t read it – I don’t need it”. So says the legendary soprano Jessye Norman in this excerpt from a no-holds-barred interview with Stephen Sackur of BBC’s HARDtalk.
She also gives her views on the selection of singers based on their appearance over their ability to sing a role.
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If you missed Omega Ensemble’s live from the Sydney Opera House, you can now watch the world premiere of Gordon Kerry’s Clarinet Quintet on-demand, broadcast from the Joan Sutherland Theatre to your living room. Composed in five movements, performers David Rowden (clarinet), Anna Da Silva Chen (violin), Tim Yu (violin), Neil Thompson (viola) and Paul…
It is a golden opportunity for soprano Tabatha McFadyen and a disappointment for Opera Australia principal Julie Lea Goodwin, who has had to withdraw from the Sydney performances of a new production of Brian Howard’s Metamorphosis due to ill health. The production has its Australian premiere at the Opera Centre in Sydney tonight. Ms McFadyen will undergo a…
A sneak peak at some of the costumes for Madame Butterfly, this year’s production from Handa Opera on the Harbour. Scroll down to see all 5 imges. Costume Design by Lluc Castells for Cio-Cio San (in white) and friends (in red). Image courtesy of Opera Australia
Roland Peelman, Artistic Director of the Song Company since 1990 is to step down from this post at the end of 2015, it has been announced. The Song Company is one of Australia’s pre-eminent professional vocal ensembles which performs repertoire from across the centuries, in a spectrum of styles and with a variety of collaborators….
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) today announced that 29-year-old Nicholas Carter has been appointed to the position of Principal Conductor – the first time in 30 years that an Australian has been appointed to lead a state orchestra since Stuart Challender was named Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony in 1987. In a coup…
Paris, London, Los Angeles, Berlin – all these cities will host productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in 2012. The London production, is at heaven nighclub and completely re-invents the character…… http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/11/don-giovanni-hero-or-villain