The Apollo Opera Collective presents George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante in partnership with the Sydney Baroque Music Festival. This thrilling modern production of a rarely performed work, uses historically informed performance practice to explore the twisted and dangerous love story of Ariodante and Ginevra, under the direction of Anthea Hewett. The Apollo Opera Collective is an exciting new…
Bittersweet Obsessions: Monteverdi and Bach Australian Brandenburg Orchestra City Recital Hall 25 October 2017 The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Bittersweet Obsessions: Monteverdi and Bach is an engaging pastiche of early and baroque music, performed in a dramatised setting by thirteen members of the orchestra, led by concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen. Joined by four vocal soloists – New…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Bittersweet Obsessions opens in Sydney tonight at the City Recital Hall and runs till 1 November. It is a dramatic staging of music from the Renaissance and the Baroque that fuses music, drama and design. Joining the ABO musicians on stage are rising New Zealand soprano Natasha Wilson with tenors Karim Sulayman from…