Get ready for good times as award-winning vocal group Soulfood a Cappella sings your favourite Aussie classics in Songs from our Backyard! This rippa of a show is chock-a-block with fresh, original covers of Paul Kelly, Missy Higgins, Hoodoo Gurus, Icehouse, Sia, and heaps more from our own backyard.
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Sydney presents a high-spirited production of the Pirates of Penzance under the stage direction of Victoria Watson. Gilbert and Sullivan’s swashbuckling operetta follows the adventures of young Frederic, who was mistakenly apprenticed to a band of pirates after his nursemaid mistook his father’s instructions to apprentice him to a ‘pilot’. What follows…
Pianist Simon Tedeschi is joins forces with the Sydney Omega Ensemble for Top of the Pops, a collection of popular classics from Beethoven, Bruch, Schubert and Gershwin, as well as a few surprises. Simon Tedeschi is one of the finest artists of his generation. He has performed for royalty and at major concert venues throughout the US, UK, Europe,…
Ephemera Quartet presents a night of unique instrumental music with Space Jazz and Polymorphic Orkestra: Electro-improvisation! Ephemera Quartet play space music – original compositions and improvisations inspired by outer space. Fusing the sound-worlds of jazz and contemporary classical music, the quartet is led by Keyna Wilkins (compositions, flute, piano) and includes Elsen Price (double bass),…
Bel A Cappella’s August concert which will be performed by candlelight, is named after the centrepiece of its programme, the Missa Papae Marcelli (“Pope Marcellus Mass”) by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. The mass for six voices was composed c. 1561 and is dedicated to Pope Marcellus II, who established the Council of Trent which sought reform in the…
Direct from its Royal Opera House performance, Australian cinemas will screen Tim Albery’s Olivier-nominated production of Wagner’s opera, Der fliegende Holländer, filmed and recorded live in high-definition from the stage of London’s Royal Opera at Covent Garden on 24 February 2015. The opera tells the intense of the intense and dangerous attraction between The Flying Dutchman sung…
The Australian Haydn Ensemble presents Beethoven’s Piano Concerto with a formidable duo who are specialists in historical performance taking the lead roles. In this programme of music by Mozart and Beethoven which features two premiere performances, the orchestra will be led by Marc Destrubé, concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, with fortepiano virtuoso Neal…