Pinchgut Streams Splendour of Venice
A fabulous concert from Pinchgut Opera, Splendour of Venice is available to watch online. Scheduled for live performance last weekend, the concert was recorded in 2019 and is conducted from the chamber organ by Pinchgut’s Artistic Director Erin Helyard. Splendour of Venice features a vocal ensemble of 9 with 8 instrumentalists performing Renaissance gems by…
Met Opera Live in HD Continues Nightly Free Streaming – The Week’s Program
The Met Live in HD continues to offer nightly streaming of its superlative productions. Here are this week’s performances, every evening at 7.30 pm each evening (US EDT). Watch via their website or on multiple devices through the Met Opera on Demand app. Monday, April 20: Strauss’s Elektra / With Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier and Eric…
Aussie Movie Music Quiz
How well do you know Aussie movie music? Challenge yourself with these teasers on this substantial and brilliant topic! Name the singer and the 1977 disco song written by George Young and Harry Vanda which is the centrepiece of the movie Strictly Ballroom. The song was a worldwide hit in 1978, peaking at No. 3 on…
Mutter, Ma and Barenboim Gather For Anniversary Recording From Deutsche Grammophon
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yo-Yo Ma and Daniel Barenboim celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with an unusual recording for Deutsche Grammophon, released earlier this month. The three stars have combined with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which celebrates its 20th year this year, to record Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, op.92 with the Triple Concerto for piano, violin…
Music & Opera Singers Trust (MOST) Launches Online Competition For Singers
Music & Opera Singers Trust (MOST) announces the launch of a brand-new international competition that offers singers the chance to perform and compete from the comfort of their own homes. ASC@Home will launch on Monday 20th April with singers of Classical and Opera, Music Theatre, Contemporary, and Jazz encouraged to enter. Any singer over the…
Nicole Car Launches Freelance Artist Relief Australia
Soprano Nicole Car has established Freelance Artist Relief Australia, a fund providing financial aid for her colleagues after the closure of arts venues due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Founded in March 2020, its grants will be available for any Australian classical singer who has suffered quantifiable losses with major Australian and overseas opera companies and…
Bocelli Sings Music For Hope
On an Easter Sunday like no other, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli gave the most extraordinary performance of his life. There was no audience present in Milan’s iconic Duomo, but across the globe people tuned in to witness his emotional performance, Music For Hope streamed live via YouTube. This unique performance, offered an uplifting message of…
Australian Chamber Orchestra Homecasts
This week’s programme on the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Homecasts series: ACO BACKSTAGE – New Release Satu Vänskä plays Paganini -Principal Violin Satu Vänskä brings a quirky, isolation-inspired interpretation to Paganini’s fiendish Caprice for Violin No.5. Tue 14 Apr, 7pm ABC CLASSIC Duet: Timo-Veikko Valve Principal Cello Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve joins pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska for a…
Test Your Knowledge Of Books And Opera!
QUIZ: BOOKS INTO MUSIC Test your passion for books, opera, or both! Name these literary pieces and their author and then the operas on which they are based and the composers who wrote them. Good luck! In this novella from 1937, two homeless ranch workers George Milton and Lennie Small, traverse California looking for work…