The music world is celebrating the 450th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. In Sydney, Les Arts Florissants will perform two concerts in two separate programs of Monteverdi Madrigals on successive evenings. The Cremona madrigals are performed on Monday 3 April at 7.30pm and the Mantua madrigals on Tuesday 4…
Possibly the most challenging aspect of writing about my evening at Giasone, Pinchgut Opera’s 2013 production, has been to decide which of the many facets of this beautifully integrated production was the most memorable – was it the casting or the singing? The musical direction or the orchestra? Was it was the inventive staging…
Don’t be misled by the seemingly masculine focussed title and synopsis of Cavalli’s Giasone. The opera which Pinchgut Opera is presenting with an all Australian cast in Sydney this week is as much about the rivalry between the two powerful women who are at the centre of the drama, distracting the hero from his…