Simon says “See Falstaff”

Simon says “See Falstaff”

Image by Branco Gaica, courtesy Opera Australia. Opera Australia’s production of Falstaff opens in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House tonight, Friday February 15th, in its continuing ‘Verdi-fest’. Based on Shakespeare’s comic play The Merry Wives of Windsor, this production is directed by Simon Phillips and conducted by Antony Walker. Warwick Fyfe…

The Wagner Society opens a year of celebrations

  The Wagner Society of New South Wales launches a year of celebrating the bicentenary of Richard Wagner’s birth with the first of a major series of events. Soprano Lisa Harper-Brown and bass Warwick Fyfe are joined by pianist Stephen Mould to present When We First Met, an afternoon of arias, duets and leider by Wagner, Richard Strauss,Sergei Rachmanninov…