Anne Sofie von Otter in Sydney
The world fanous mezzo-soprano performs in Sydney with the SSO this week:
The world fanous mezzo-soprano performs in Sydney with the SSO this week:
The Apollo Opera Collective presents George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante in partnership with the Sydney Baroque Music Festival. This thrilling modern production of a rarely performed work, uses historically informed performance practice to explore the twisted and dangerous love story of Ariodante and Ginevra, under the direction of Anthea Hewett. The Apollo Opera Collective is an exciting new…
Pianist Clemens Leske will perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor with The Metropolitan Orchestra in its annual all-Russian programme. Titled “Russian Nights”, the performance will also include Rimsky-Korsakov’s sultry Scheherazade opus 35. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no 3 is considered one of the most technically confronting concertos in the classical repertoire. It was premiered…
The Acacia Quartet will join flautist and Live at Lunch Artistic Director, Jane Rutter for Mozart Quartets, an intimate lunchtime concert featuring Flute Quartets and the String Quartet in D Minor. Founded in 2010, Acacia Quartet, comprising violinists Lisa Stewart and Myee Clohessy, violist Stefan Duwe and cellist Anna Martin-Scrase, quickly won respect for their versatile and…
Join The Metropolitan Orchestra with Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams as they journey through a wonderfully varied program including gypsy folk inspired music by Kodaly, piano virtuosity with both Jazz and Classical inspiration from Gershwin, and finally the famous Enigma Variations by Elgar. They begin their global journey in Galanta (now part of Slovakia), where the…
Join four of Sydney’s finest young singers in a recital of some of the greatest song cycles in the vocal repertoire. Accompanied by pianist Mikey Curtain, tenors Kaine Hayward and Joel Scott, with baritones Jared Lillehagen and Andrew Williams, will perform music by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Mahler. There will be a complimentary glass…
The Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia has announced that the 2016 competition winner, Russia’s Andrey Gugnin, will perform a second recital in Sydney on the tails of a sell-out first recital. A graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Andrey has been a frontrunner in numerous contests including the Beethoven International Piano Competition and the…