Pianist Michael Kieran Harvey has delivered the 2012 Peggy-Glanville Hicks address, calling for more funding for Australian music, Australian musicians and better music education in the school system. The Australian Music Centre’s Resonate magazine reports:
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Opera Australia has announced that the company will undertake an inaugural tour to China this October, presenting Moffatt Oxenbould’s celebrated production of Madama Butterfly. The tour will perform eight performances in four Chinese cities: Tianjin, Qingdao, Shenzhen and Zhuhai. It is Opera Australia’s first multi-city international tour. Oxenbould’s production was performed for the last time in Australia…
Missed out on tickets to Thaïs next year? Opera Australia has announced a second date in July 2017 for their concert performance of Massenet’s rarely performed opera conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire with Nicole Car as Thaïs, Canadian baritone Etienne Dupuis as Athanaël and Korean born tenor Simon Kim as Nicias. Richard Anderson sings the role of Palémon with Sian…
After hotly contested preliminary rounds involving almost 30 a cappella (unaccompanied) choirs, ten choirs entered the finals of the Short + Sweet Voices Festival held at the Concourse Theatre, Chatswood, last weekend. Performing in every sort of musical genre and style and in ensembles of all sizes, from quartets to more than 50 singers, the…
Scroll down to see these vibrant images from Opera Australia’s 2014 production of The Magic Flute. (9 images) Courtesy Opera Australia. Images Branco Gaica.
Ravi Shankar, the man who introduced Indian classical music and its instruments to the western world, died earlier this week in the US. He formed never before contemplated collaborations with musicians from The Beatles to Yehudi Menuhin, Andre Previn to Philip Glass, John Coltrane and Jean-Pierre Rampal. The three times Grammy award winner is the…
Exotic images give a taste of TaikOz’s upcoming concert the Spirit Dancer at the City Recital Hall on November 28th. (3 Images) Click here for more: http://soundslikesydney.com.au/shows/taikoz-presents-the-spirit-dancer/14524.html: