Outback Opera
Check out this very entertaining feature from smh.tv – Opera Australia’s production of La Boheme goes on a regional tour:
http://www.smh.com.au/tv/show/outback-opera/outback-opera-20111118-1nmzi.html?rand=1321745380422
Check out this very entertaining feature from smh.tv – Opera Australia’s production of La Boheme goes on a regional tour:
http://www.smh.com.au/tv/show/outback-opera/outback-opera-20111118-1nmzi.html?rand=1321745380422
Christian Badea chuckles as he confesses that he has known Tosca all his life. The Romanian born US based conductor is in Sydney again for Opera Australia, rehearsing John Bell’s production of the Puccini opera which opens here in early July. Just last year, the graduate of the Juilliard School, Grammy Award winning conductor and past- director…
Violist Hayley Lau has won the overall prize in the prestigious NSW Secondary Schools Concerto Competition conducted by the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra.
Having reported recently that an increasing number of pianos (in the US at least) are being dumped ( http://soundslikesydney.com.au/news/free-to-a-good-home-when-pianos-pass-their-use-by-date/8789.html), and that Australia is suffering a lack of piano tuners and training facilities for them, (http://soundslikesydney.com.au/news/australia-out-of-tuners/9084.html) research has proven that working and training as a piano tuner produces specific adaptations in brain function that relate to the…
The Australian reports that singers on 12 month contracts with Opera Australia will be rested for upto 12 weeks without pay in 2013. A representative of Actors’ Equity claims that this is to make way for the musical The King and I; OA artistic director Lyndon Terracini says it is due to “casting and financial considerations.”…
Tonight, Mozart’s fantasy filled opera The Magic Flute opens at the Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. Singing the role of Sarastro is Morris Robinson, a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Following his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in their production of Fidelio, he has enjoyed a busy career…
A second date in August 2017 has been announced for Opera Australia’s presentation of Verdi’s Requiem in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. Dubbed by the conductor Hans von Bülow as ‘Oper in Kirchengewande’ (opera in ecclesiastical dress) Verdi’s Requiem is brimming with the drama of operatic ideas. In fact, Verdi based the Lacrymosa on…