“We’re righting a wrong to present composers whose works are de rigeur in the rest of the world as a festival event .” A potent statement from Jack Symonds, conductor and music director of Sydney Chamber Opera about the double-bill the company is presenting for the Sydney Festival. Under the collective title His Music…
Sydney Chamber Opera is joined by Sydney Theatre Company resident director Sarah Giles to present His Music Burns a double bill of contemporary masterpieces performed in Australia for the very first time, presented by the Sydney Festival. In the double-bill are George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill with soprano Ellen Winhall, mezzo-soprano Emily Edmonds and…
Soprano Ellen Winhall presents the first of her recitals in series of classic works for unaccompanied voice. Called Recitation I, this is the first concert in Sydney and indeed, in Australia, for the recently arrived British born soprano. Exploring how the voice can be used as a flexible instrument, the programme includes seminal works, amongst them, Luciano Berio’s famous Sequenza III, a selection…