Sydney Sings Messiah

Sydney Sings Messiah

Sydney University Graduate Choir, Guest Choir and Orchestra under music director Christopher Bowen OAM perform Handel’s perennial masterpiece, the oratorio Messiah. The soloists are Anita Kyle (soprano), Tim Chung (alto), Andrew Goodwin (tenor) and David Hidden (bass). The guest choir is drawn from communities across Sydney. Composed in 1741 and premiering in Dublin in March…

Pinchgut 2015: Tragedy And Comedy – Bookings Open

Pinchgut 2015: Tragedy And Comedy – Bookings Open

  Pinchgut Opera continues its 2014 programming trend in 2015, once again presenting two rarely heard masterpieces of drama and comedy at Sydney’s City Recital Hall. Their winter offering (July 4,5,7 and 8) is Vivaldi’s Bazajet (RV 703), a tragedia per musica in 3 acts, with libretto by Agostino Piovene. The musical content comprises Vivaldi’s own arias dedicated…

Concert Review: JS Bach Mass in B Minor/ The Song Company And Ironwood.

Concert Review: JS Bach Mass in B Minor/ The Song Company And Ironwood.

JS Bach’s Mass in B minor BWV 232 is described by Sir John Eliot Gardiner in his recent book Bach, as “unprecedented  in its scale, majesty and sobriety.” An ensemble taking on a performance of this masterwork has an exacting task in doing it justice. That task becomes even more formidable when the ensemble reaches…