This year, Opera Foundation Australia celebrates 50 years of providing young Australians with exclusive access to prestigious international learning opportunities to further their opera careers with the announcement in October of the 50th winner of the coveted Opera Foundation Australia 2014 Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship. Following national auditions, six talented young opera singers were selected to…
For its December 2014 production, Pinchgut Opera will perform Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. Considered to be Gluck’s best work, it is the sixth of seven operas he wrote in Paris. It is a rarely performed masterwork and with it, Pinchgut Opera also marks the 300 anniversary of Gluck’s birth. Iphigénie en Tauride is an intensely dramatic…
Chamber ensemble Resonance launches its 2014 season with a sumptuous programme of romantic masterpieces to celebrate St Valentine’s Day. Opera star Margaret Plummer, mezzo-soprano, joins pianist Chris Cartner for an hour of enchanting highlights from the worlds of opera and song. In the programme: Bizet: Habanera (from ‘Carmen’) Berlioz: Le Spectre de la Rose Mozart: Voi…