‘Opera in ecclesiastical dress’ – Willoughby Symphony performs Verdi’s ‘Requiem’

‘Opera in ecclesiastical dress’ – Willoughby Symphony performs Verdi’s ‘Requiem’

The Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Dr Nicholas Milton present a performance of Verdi’s Requiem this week. Soprano Sarah Ann Walker, mezzo-soprano Anna Yun, tenor David Woodward, and bass-baritone James Martin are the soloists in this monumental and dramatic sacred work, which conductor Hans von Bulow called Oper in Kirchengewande (opera in ecclesiastical dress). Following the completion of Aida…

Willoughby Symphony launch a Symphonic Odyssey

Willoughby Symphony launch a Symphonic Odyssey

Willoughby Symphony will launch its 2012 Symphonic Odyssey concert series with the passionate and exhilarating Enigma Variations, at their newly developed Concert Hall on The Concourse in the Chatswood city centre. Performing under the baton of Chief Conductor, Dr Nicholas Milton,  the Willoughby Symphony will open the concert with Graeme Koehne’s thrilling Elevator Music (1997). Joining…

Dr Nicholas Milton on conducting Europe and ten years with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra

Dr Nicholas Milton on conducting Europe and ten years with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Dr Nicholas Milton this year celebrates 10 years at the helm of the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra. He recently returned to Sydney after a stint in Europe. He talks, in his own words about his experiences in Europe. First, SoundsLikeSydney asked him what changes he had observed in the WSo over the past yen years. “I am…