Ensemble Offspring has released a series of videos entitled Lone Hemispheres: The Solo Sessions as one of its responses to music-making in the COVID era. Sponsored by a COVID grant from the City of Sydney, Many months in the making, our series of 12 videos were recorded at Baker Street Studios, highlighting modern masterpieces alongside…
Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2018 opens this week presenting Puccini’s verismo masterpiece La Bohème, the tale of the art-loving quartet of young men and the shy seamstress, Mimi. This new production of La Bohème is set in a wintery 1960s Parisian landscape, with cobblestone laneways, glowing street lamps and bohemian costumes, has some surprising…
The Nixon Tapes – Scenes from Nixon in China Sydney Opera House/ Opera Australia/ Vivid Live Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House June 5, 2017 When the Sydney Opera House, Vivid and Opera Australia presented The Nixon Tapes – Scenes from Nixon in China, the opera by John Adams, it was immediately evident that this was…