The IFAC Australian Singing Competition has announced the ten gifted singers who will progress to the semi-finals of this prestigious annual competition. Following heats around Australia, in Auckland and in London, sopranos Sarah Ampil, Morgan Balfour, Zoe Drummond and Sarah Wang, all from NSW, mezzo-sopranos Anastasia Bickel (QLD) and Fleuranne Brockway (WA), soprano Eliza…
Opera Australia is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year and is marking the occasion with an event in which four maestros lead a program of operatic classics at a Gala Concert featuring some of its biggest stars, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and the Opera Australia Chorus — with a special appearance by many…
Kudos to Michael Gow and Musica Viva with Victorian Opera for their creation Voyage to the Moon, a Baroque pastiche with libretto and direction by Gow, and a score constructed by the late Alan Curtis, complemented by Calvin Bowman after Curtis’ sudden death during the project. The chamber opera opened in Sydney this week with…