Opera Australia:Der Ring des Nibelungen: Götterdämmerung Arts Centre Melbourne/25 November 2013 ***** The Third Day of Wagner’s music colossus concluded what has been the kind of festival he had planned: all four operas being performed in close succession by outstanding singers and a Wagner sized orchestra of excellent musicians in a production that illuminates…
Composer Gavin Lockley is passionate about the music of the Australian bush. In a landscape that is as severe as it is beautiful, survival is key, so it’s fitting that Lockley’s work My Country Australia is being performed this week to celebrate the 85th anniversary of Australia’s iconic Royal Flying Doctor Service. My Country Australia…
Hot on the heels of his outstanding interpretation of George Milton in Opera Australia’s recent production of Floyd’s Of Mice and Men, baritone Barry Ryan, with pianist Louise Scott performs Schubert’s Winterreise for Art Song NSW in mid-September. Few professional singers with suitable voices would leave their training institutions without having journeyed through the 24 Lieder of Winterreise. And…