Kissin’s Australian debut
Matthew Westwood reviews Kissin’s Sunday night Brisbane performance.
Matthew Westwood reviews Kissin’s Sunday night Brisbane performance.
Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns to record J S Bach’s St John Passion, BWV 245, for Deutsche Grammophon, more than thirty years after he first recorded this work for Archiv Produktion.
Deutsche Grammophon has released recordings of Chopin Piano Competition winner Bruce Liu, made during various live stages of this contest which was held in Warsaw in October 2021. Born in Paris in 1997 to Chinese parents from Beijing, Liu’s family moved to Montreal when he was six. He began playing the piano aged eight…
Since recording the world premiere of Peggy Glanville Hicks’ never performed opera Sappho, Australian conductor Jennifer Condon has set her sights on bringing to life the opera on stage. She will visit Sydney in July from her present home in Hamburg, in the next step of this project. If Jennifer Condon’s single mindedness in making…
Next week, Pinchgut Opera presents its much awaited and ‘top of the range’ annual offering for 2012, Rameau’s Castor and Pollux. The soloists have been Sydney for nearly a month and work with the ensemble of singers and instrumentalists has begun. Antony Walker is back to conduct the performances, with his Co-Artistic Director at Pinchgut, Erin Helyard at the harpsichord. The costumes…
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The IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition has announced that Vladimir Fanshil will conduct the Australian Opera Orchestra for the 2021 competition.