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.
Soprano Nicole Car will be meeting her fans and signing copies of her debut album The Kiss at Fish Fine Music in the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney from 12 noon on Sunday 21 February. Released on ABC Classics just this month, The Kiss has shot to #1 on the classical charts and to #2 on…
” A CD that displays my music making abilities and music that is rare” is how mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell describes her latest project, Love + Loss, a debut solo recording of three cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel. It’s an achievement of which she is justifiably proud. Her performance earned high praise from…
This Saturday, the Sydney Chamber Choir joins forces with orchestra seventeen88, conducted by Richard Gill to perform Ross Edwards’ Missa Alchera which reveals deep connections between time, ritual, place and the Dreaming of Australia’s Indigenous peoples. In this Q and A, Ross Edwards talks about his early memories of music, his inspirations and the process of writing the…
Support Act announces Ausmusic T-Shirt Day 2020! Save the date, Friday, 20 November! Ausmusic T-Shirt Da is a nation-wide celebration of Australian music that will help to raise desperately needed funds to meet the ever growing demand on Support Act’s services during the COVID pandemic. Requests for Crisis Relief have increased by 883% since the…
Check out these 9 glorious images from Opera Australia’s production of La Traviata which opened in Sydney this week. Images by Branco Gaica courtesy of Opera Australia
More background on David Robertson, who will take over as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony from 2014: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/boulez-protege-has-a-postromantic-perspective-20120515-1yp2t.html http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/buried-treasures-to-be-unearthed-after-orchestra-passes-the-baton-20120515-1yp2u.html http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/new-sso-chief-strikes-right-notes/story-e6frg8n6-1226356619844