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.
Before there was sibling rivalry, the myth of Castor and Pollux exemplified fraternal love. Their story is based in mythology and self-sacrifice between two brothers. Pinchgut Opera presents Jean- Phillipe Rameau’s opera Castor and Pollux next weekend. When it was written in 1737 and revised in 1754, the music created deep divisions in French society, pitting the followers of Lully and his…
Sydney University Graduate Choir, Guest Choir and Orchestra under music director Christopher Bowen OAM perform Handel’s perennial masterpiece, the oratorio Messiah. The soloists are Anita Kyle (soprano), Tim Chung (alto), Andrew Goodwin (tenor) and David Hidden (bass). The guest choir is drawn from communities across Sydney. Composed in 1741 and premiering in Dublin in March…
Soprano Nadia Piave is calling all “lovers of Leichhardt, of the Lucanian lilt and friends of anywhere south of Rome” as she announces the Nadia Napoli show she says she has been wanting to do for years – Big Night ! (or Napoli Swings!). Nadia is teaming up and walking the Napoli talk, with parthenopeic pianistic peccadillist Glenn Amer (truly perfetto), as well as ‘da boyz’:…
The Amateur Chamber Music Society (ACMS) presents its first concert for 2013, at the Independent Theatre at North Sydney, on March 9th. They will be performing a range of works by Debussy, Genin, Haydn and Mendelssohn, selected for their beauty and listening pleasure. ACMS is a Sydney-based non-profit organisation of amateur chamber musicians. Their aim is to…
To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the Choir of Christ Church St Laurence and Bach Akademie Australia present a (mostly) Bach concert with a programme that culminates in the wonderful Cantata BWV 80, Ein feste Burg featuring soloists Josie Ryan (soprano), Janine Harris (mezzo-soprano) Richard Butler (tenor) and David Russell (bass) followed by Reger’s…
The Sydney Opera House, Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) and Pacific Opera will present a number of concerts featuring young classical musicians and opera singers, showcasing the rising stars of Australian classical music. In the first of these concerts for 2017, up-and-coming artists from ANAM and Pacific Opera under the artistic direction of Simon…