Twenty-nine emerging opera singers have progressed to the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship quarter-finals and will compete again on June 9 in hope of coming one step closer to securing their part of the $70,000 worth of prizes on offer. Sixteen of the qualifying singers will progress to the semi-final on June 10 and eight will progress…
The Willoughby Symphony opens its 2018 season with Gala, dazzling Italian-themed concert under Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, Dr Nicholas Milton AM. This inspirational program includes the powerful and passionate music of Verdi, Rossini’s wit and perennial freshness, Mascagni’s glorious Intermezzo and Respighi’s Pines of Rome with its thunderous climax. Gala will also welcome to the Concert Hall stage the…
The Willoughby Symphony’s 2017 season closes with Triumph, conducted by celebrated Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, Dr Nicholas Milton AM, with special guest appearance by pianist Kristian Chong who will perform Rachmaninov’s indomitable Piano Concerto No. 3, which was unforgettably portrayed in the Australian movie Shine. Following with Tchaikovsky’s towering Fourth Symphony, audiences will be taken on a haunting journey of tragic reality, passing dreams, and…