Stuart Skelton was named the Best Male Singer at the 2014 International Opera Awards ceremony held under the auspices of Opera magazine at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane last night. Simone Young featured as well, having conducted the Hamburg Staatsoper which won the award for Verdi anniversary production.
Read the full list of winners and finalists.
“It’s like a blank canvas for large scale emotion. When you hear it, you can let your mind wander – thinking about what this orchestra has done, all the different instruments their sounds…their colour…..” The words of composer Elena Kats-Chernin as she sits in the studio of her Sydney home, talking about the newly…
Nigel Westlake and Katy Abbott are the winners of the 2019 Paul Lowin Prizes. The announcement was made during a ceremony at the Melbourne Recital Centre this week. A video of the ceremony is available for streaming the Australian Music Centre’s website, and includes the 2019 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address by Deborah Cheetham AO. Nigel Westlake…
For a number of years in the recent past, Sydneysiders were treated to performances by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra during the first week of August. This annual tour was inaugurated by its Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing, under whose leadership, the TSO also amassed an impressive discography which included the complete Schumann and Mendelssohn symphonies. After…
Mark Isaacs will release a new solo piano single of Ravel’s Ondine in January 2022.
Celebrating the 80th birthday of the esteemed pianist and conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Decca is releasing the complete Concerto Recordings of Ashkenazy – 46 CDs in original jackets – every concerto recording ever made for Decca with Ashkenazy as pianist. The anthology includes a previously unpublished Mozart concerto, K488, 2 DVDs featuring Ashkenazy’s 1974 recordings with…
Performing is a curious business. It regularly throws up conundrums and contradictions and one of those is the phenomenon of memory. Dancers develop their muscle memory from hours of rehearsal and cues from the accompaniment; memorising lines is implicit in being an actor. Solo instrumentalists almost always perform from memory. All opera singers work from memory, yet…
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