Some early impressions of the set and site design for Madame Butterfly, the 2014 production from Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. Scroll down to see all three images.
Set Design by Alfons Flores. Images courtesy of Opera Australia
Is the term ‘contemporary classical music’ a contradiction in terms? Tom Service of The Guardian dispels some myths: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/apr/26/five-myths-contemporary-classical-music?intcmp=239
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Art Music Awards, announced in Melbourne this week, recognising some of Australia’s finest established and emerging artists who are outstanding in their fields of expertise over a broad spectrum of musical styles.
Sir Charles Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE (1925 – 2010) Australian conductor, was one of the nation’s most revered and loved musicians. He was the first Australian chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and also had a glittering career around the world. The English National Opera (ENO) is just one ensemble with which he had a long and enduring…
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees in the 2017 APRA/AMCOS Art Music Awards! The winners of the 2017 Art Music Awards across 11 national categories and 8 state / territory categories were announced at the City Recital Hall earlier this week. Together they represent the most outstanding contributions of 2016 across the genres of…
Grammy Award winning New Zealand born bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu (he’s sung Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for OA in Sydney) has had to meet a new challenge – that of learning a libretto in Chinese. He talks about it in this blog. (The Grammy Award was in 2010 for Best Opera Recording Billy Budd) http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/mar/26/learning-to-sing-chinese-songs
In a home in the northern outskirts of Sydney lies a truly remarkable collection of period keyboard instruments. Nestled near the natural bushland at Berowra Heights, Ralph Schureck has assembled some thirty-five instruments, making The Schureck Collection the largest collection of concert quality early keyboards in Australia. Instruments from before 1780 are accurate copies…