These artist’s impressions of the floating stage for La Traviata against the glorioue setting of Sydney Harbour look absolutely spectacular! From 24th March to 15th April 2012.
Tickets at: http://www.operaonsydneyharbour.com.au/tickets.html
Images from Opera Australia’s current production of Verdi’s Rigoletto show the dark tones of the sinister set which reeks of conspiracy, against which the vivid costumes of the courtiers shine blood-red. Scroll down to see all 7 images. Images by Braco Gaica, courtesy Opera Australia.
Till now, it was the All Night Vigil by Rachmaninoff that held the dubious honour of asking for the lowest note to be sung in choral music – the third B flat below middle C. This 97 year long record has now been shattered with Paul Mealor’s setting of the De Profundis in which he…
Blackheath Chamber Music Festival returns in April 2022 for a busy 4-day ANZAC weekend of exquisite classical music, featuring some of Australia’s outstanding artists, sourced nationally, internationally and locally.
Twelve finalists performing on the oboe, flute, violin and piano have been selected to compete in the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year finals for 2014 to take place in Adelaide in August. Representing New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, the young musicians Andrew Kawai, Anna Da Silva Chen, Anne-Marie Johnson, Catherine Gregory, David Soo, Glenn Christensen, Grace…
For the third consecutive year, the city of New York has been dotted with 88 pianos (equalling the number of keys on a piano), offering anyone who is taken by the urge, to sit down and tickle the ivories. An initiative of Sing for Hope, a not for profit organisation, the pianos will be moved…
Super-star soprano soprano Renée Fleming joins forces with Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the piano in this new release on the Decca label. Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene Exploring the relationship Romantic composers had with nature through song, the tracklist incudes the music of Fauré, Hahn, Grieg, Liszt, and the world premiere of a work by Nico Muhly. …