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 Missa Alchera.
A sneak peek at the set design for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. This year Opera Australia presents Verdi’s grand masterpiece Aida. Sopranos Latonia Moore and Daria Masiero will share the role of Aida. Directed by Gale Edwards with costume and set design by Mark Thompson, Aida will run from 27 March to 26 April 2015….
Applications have opened for artists and arts and cultural organisations to tour their work
across regional NSW as part of Create NSW’s Regional Arts Touring Program.
Polymath and opera buff Stephen Fry might have some answers to the physiology behind the way audiences respond to opera: http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/stephen-fry-hosts-the-science-of-opera.html
Utzon Music 2023 will feature 11 performances by international and Australian artists in the intimate Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House.
The Australian Haydn Ensemble returns to the City Recital Hall in December, under the artistic direction of Skye McIntosh presenting Tempora Mutantur with guest director and fortepiano soloist Erin Helyard. On the programme are Boccherini’s Piano Quintet Op. 57 No. 3 in E minor, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 6 in B flat major K. 238…
