SBS TV broadcasts Janacek’s opera Katya Kabanova this Saturday afternoon. Directed and designed by Robert Carsen, this production from the Teatro Real in Madrid stars Finnish soprano Karita Mattila in the title role and is conducted by Czech conductor Jirí Bélohlávek.
From France, in Czech, English subtitles.
St Mary’s Singers launch Christmas 2014 in a spectacular way with a performance of Handel’s Messiah in the glorious surroundings of Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral. Experience the incomparable music of George Frideric Handel and the words of Charles Jennens in the tale of the Nativity and the Passion, the exuberant choruses and achingly beautiful arias. The…
The Australia Ensemble@UNSW returns to the stage in March with the inaugural concert of its 2016 season. The programme entitled Transfigured Night takes its name from Arnold Schoenberg’s masterful string sextet Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), an early work reflecting this composer’s interest and mastery of late Romantic musical ideas. Inspired by a poem of the expressionist poet, Richard…
Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (ARCO) presents Cavatina its first ever live-streamed concert when it performs in the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall (MDCH). The concert is modestly-priced and features six Melbourne-based members of the orchestra – Australia’s premier exponents of historically informed performance (HIP). The concert will have a national and global reach. Cavatina is…
Italian violinist and conductor Riccardo Minasi returns to perform with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra with a programme of rare music that has largely been unheard for centuries, and certainly never before played in Australia. Riccardo is one of the world’s most captivating baroque violin virtuosos and conductors. Born in Rome in 1978, he has performed both as…
Percussion ensembles Synergy Percussion and TaikOz, join forces to present pulse:heart:beat, a concert which they warn will ‘shake the foundations of the city with one powerful beating heart.’ For over four decades, Synergy Percussion has led contemporary percussion music in Australia. Its sister group, TaikOz, established in 1997 features some of the country’s best Japanese taiko drum musicians. The concert is…
Virtuoso harpist Xavier de Maistre returns to Australia, touring Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, once again, with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Paul Dyer, Artistic Director of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra recalls “His 2018 concerts were a highlight of the year for many music lovers and we are incredibly fortunate to have again him for our 2020…