Quotas on overseas singers: another view
Baritone Peter Coleman-Wright offers a view on the suggestion by OA artitic director Lyndon Terracini that quotas be lifted on the hiring of non-Australian singers:
Baritone Peter Coleman-Wright offers a view on the suggestion by OA artitic director Lyndon Terracini that quotas be lifted on the hiring of non-Australian singers:
She has been a versatile and popular performer on Australia’s opera stage – as Carmen, she memorably tied up Stuart Skelton’s Don Jose; wore a beard as Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress for which she won a Helpmann Award; consoled Cheryl Barker’s Cio- Cio San as Suzuki in Madame Butterfly and received…
Violinist Nicola Benedetti has created a project, The Virtual Benedetti Sessions which hopes to offer organisations across the world the opportunity to engage with and together, learn, provide, uplift and excite. Programmes of activity will be available for young musicians, conservatoire and university level music students, instrumental teachers, adult learners, non-instrumentalists, amateur musicians, parents, siblings…
Check out these vibrant images from the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, screening nationally from April 11. Directed by Bartlett Sher and conducted by Yes Abel, Vittorio Grigolo takes the role of the poet Hoffman with Thomas Hampson as his nemesis. Erin Morley sings makes her debut as Olympia. Scroll down to…
To celebrate World Migratory Bird Day on May 9th 2020, the Bowerbird Collective, comprising violinist Simone Slattery and cellist Anthony Albrecht created Invisible Connections a concert experience like no other: a musical and visual journey from the continental shores and archipelagos of Australasia to the tundra of Siberia and Alaska, tracing the awe-inspiring odyssey of…
Omega Ensemble and ABC Classic have released a new recording, Fauré: Trio in D Minor, Op. 120, his penultimate work. The Piano trio in D minor, was originally intended as a trio for clarinet, cello and piano. In 1922, the composer wrote to his wife: “I’ve started a trio for clarinet, cello, and piano… The…
Celebrate the festive season with a special show Voices of Angels: The Twelve Days of Christmas with Gondwana Choirs. Directed by Sam Allchurch and with Helena Rathbone leading the Voives of Angels Orchestra, the singers will present a rich programme of new Australian seasonal works alongside the classics. If you would like the chance to win a…