This Week From The Met
Famous performances, rare operas and a dive into the archive. This week from the Met in New York: Thursday, July 9 Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini Friday, July 10 Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with Anna Netrebko, conducted by Valery Gergiev Saturday, July 11 Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Sunday, July 12 Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde Each stream becomes available…
What’s Next For the Arts? Musica Viva Examines The Road Ahead
One hundred days of lockdown, budget cuts, end-of-financial-year donation drives tinged with an added note of passion and a desperately uncertain future for the performing arts. It was against this stark backdrop that Musica Viva Australia grasped the helm and convened a webinar, What’s Next for the Arts? anchored by its CEO, Hywel Sims, with…
Selby & Friends Celebrate Beethoven 250 Online
Selby & Friends present their much-anticipated all-Beethoven program – shot in high resolution hi-fi under social distance protocols at Sydney’s City Recital Hall in its first concert since lockdown. The concert is available online to all from 4 July. Not letting the pandemic interrupt the Beethoven 250 anniversary, this tribute concert features Beethoven’s revolutionary ‘Ghost’…
Angela Hewitt Wins Wigmore Medal
Pianist Angela Hewitt has been awarded the Wigmore Medal in recognition of her international standing and contribution to Wigmore Hall, over the course of more than 80 performances since her debut there in 1985. The presentation was made on stage at Wigmore Hall after her Special Broadcast Recital on June 25. Ms. Hewitt had been…
UNSW Music Performance Unit Announces Two Composition Prizes For 2020
The Music Performance Unit UNSW has announced two composition prizes for 2020, the Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize and the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize. Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize is a new composition prize, on offer in 2020-only. The winning applicant will be commissioned to compose a short, new work for either: SATB choir with piano or…
More On Selby&Friends At Home
Selby&Friends are delighted to announce that Beethoven’s Triple Concerto is now available on the Selby&Friends YouTube channel Selby&Friends at Home. Pianist and founding artistic director, Kathryn Selby says “A few years ago I presented a program entitled ‘By Arrangement’ which featured Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in an extraordinary arrangement for piano trio by Carl Reinecke with…
Nielsen Wind Quintet On Record From Omega Ensemble And ABC Classic
Omega Ensemble and ABC Classic have released a new recording, Nielsen: Wind Quintet, Op. 43. In Nielsen’s biography, the author writes: ‘Nielsen’s fondness of wind instruments is closely related to his love of nature, his fascination for living, breathing things. He was also intensely interested in human character, and the Wind Quintet, composed deliberately for…
Sydney Eisteddfod Stage At Home Continues Video Releases
The Sydney Eisteddfod’s Stage At Home series continues throughout June and July with new videos being released each week. Entries are still welcome from all performers at home in dance, drama, music and song. Stage at Home was created for the created for the Sydney Eisteddfod community so that the talent of the 2020 Festival…
Michelle Ryan Sings Villa-Lobos
Soprano Michelle Ryan, winner of the 2019 German-Australian Opera Grant was to have travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany, in June this year, as her prize, to train and perform with the Hessisches Staatstheater. The COVID-19 pandemic placed a cruel stop to these plans and Michelle is patiently biding her time until she can travel to Wiesbaden,…