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.
Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor opens in Sydney this week. The Opera Australia production has Emma Matthews in the title role with American tenor James Valenti as Edgardo and Giorgio Caoduro as Enrico. These images give an idea of the power and drama of the opera and below them, the link to a feature about the…
To celebrate her 50th birthday, superstar Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has released Amata Dalle Tenebre her first solo album in five years on the Deutsche Grammophon label.
Die tote Stadt, opus 12 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Opera in 3 acts with to a libretto by Paul Schott (Julius and E. W. Korngold) after Georges Rodenbach’s novel Bruges la morte. Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House June 30th 2012 It is a fortuitous collision of talent to have an opera composed by a prolific writer of cinematic music, directed by an Oscar…
Lachlan Skipworth and Brett Dean have been announced as the winners of the 2016 Paul Lowin Prizes.The announcement was made in Sydney on December 6, 2016 by the Australian Music Centre in collaboration with Perpetual. A first-time Lowin finalist, the Western Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth took home the $25,000 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize for his…
Decca Classics has released a landmark 32-CD set of the complete works of Béla Bartók, bringing together his monumental orchestral and stage works, folk music arrangements and piano works as well as chamber and solo instrumental works. At the heart of the collection lie some of the most legendary Bartók recordings made by artists intimately associated with his…
Of all the figures on stage during a concert, the conductor is perhaps the most enigmatic – commanding a great deal of attention from performers and audience and controlling the sound, whilst not actually making any music – and all the while with his or her back to the audience! This feature by Clemency Burton-Hill…
Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor opens in Sydney this week. The Opera Australia production has Emma Matthews in the title role with American tenor James Valenti as Edgardo and Giorgio Caoduro as Enrico. These images give an idea of the power and drama of the opera and below them, the link to a feature about the…
To celebrate her 50th birthday, superstar Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has released Amata Dalle Tenebre her first solo album in five years on the Deutsche Grammophon label.
Die tote Stadt, opus 12 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Opera in 3 acts with to a libretto by Paul Schott (Julius and E. W. Korngold) after Georges Rodenbach’s novel Bruges la morte. Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House June 30th 2012 It is a fortuitous collision of talent to have an opera composed by a prolific writer of cinematic music, directed by an Oscar…
Lachlan Skipworth and Brett Dean have been announced as the winners of the 2016 Paul Lowin Prizes.The announcement was made in Sydney on December 6, 2016 by the Australian Music Centre in collaboration with Perpetual. A first-time Lowin finalist, the Western Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth took home the $25,000 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize for his…
Decca Classics has released a landmark 32-CD set of the complete works of Béla Bartók, bringing together his monumental orchestral and stage works, folk music arrangements and piano works as well as chamber and solo instrumental works. At the heart of the collection lie some of the most legendary Bartók recordings made by artists intimately associated with his…
Of all the figures on stage during a concert, the conductor is perhaps the most enigmatic – commanding a great deal of attention from performers and audience and controlling the sound, whilst not actually making any music – and all the while with his or her back to the audience! This feature by Clemency Burton-Hill…
Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor opens in Sydney this week. The Opera Australia production has Emma Matthews in the title role with American tenor James Valenti as Edgardo and Giorgio Caoduro as Enrico. These images give an idea of the power and drama of the opera and below them, the link to a feature about the…
To celebrate her 50th birthday, superstar Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has released Amata Dalle Tenebre her first solo album in five years on the Deutsche Grammophon label.
Die tote Stadt, opus 12 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Opera in 3 acts with to a libretto by Paul Schott (Julius and E. W. Korngold) after Georges Rodenbach’s novel Bruges la morte. Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House June 30th 2012 It is a fortuitous collision of talent to have an opera composed by a prolific writer of cinematic music, directed by an Oscar…
Lachlan Skipworth and Brett Dean have been announced as the winners of the 2016 Paul Lowin Prizes.The announcement was made in Sydney on December 6, 2016 by the Australian Music Centre in collaboration with Perpetual. A first-time Lowin finalist, the Western Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth took home the $25,000 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize for his…
Decca Classics has released a landmark 32-CD set of the complete works of Béla Bartók, bringing together his monumental orchestral and stage works, folk music arrangements and piano works as well as chamber and solo instrumental works. At the heart of the collection lie some of the most legendary Bartók recordings made by artists intimately associated with his…
Of all the figures on stage during a concert, the conductor is perhaps the most enigmatic – commanding a great deal of attention from performers and audience and controlling the sound, whilst not actually making any music – and all the while with his or her back to the audience! This feature by Clemency Burton-Hill…