If you’re travelling to Melbourne at the end of this year to join the odyssey that is Wagner’s ‘Ring’, this feature in The Australian takes you on a parallel journey as Orchestra Victoria gathers musicians to augment its core for the landmark season.
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Located about 45 km northwest of Barcelona, the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat which dates back to at least 1025, rises dizzyingly to the skies, clinging to the jagged face of the eponymous mountain. Riding up the rock to the monastery in the Aeri (cable car), we were transported 1,350-metres, through gradients of…
There is a project coming to life in Sydney that is about to overturn long held ideas about composing and performing music. Most of the time, composing would be considered to be an act of deliberate planning. The composer sets out to express an intensely personal statement in harmony, melody and style. Score markings tell…
The Board of Opera Australia has announced two new members. Joining the board are soprano Greta Bradman and Professor Warren Bebbington AM, Professorial Fellow in Music at the University of Melbourne.
Three winners of the ARIA Fine Arts Awards were announced at the Art Gallery of New South Wales this morning. Congratulations to Sally Whitwell for Best Classical Album All Imperfect Things, The Idea of North for Best Jazz Album Smile and Joseph Tawadros for Best World Music Album Chameleons of the White Shadow. Read our review…
Congratulations to tenor Manase Latu (23), who won the 2019 Marianne Mathy Scholarship (‘The Mathy’) in the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Prize, as well as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Prize with his performance of Tradito, Schernito from Mozart’s Così fan tutte. As part of The Mathy, Manase Latu also received Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan…
The topic of the moment amongst Sydney’s classical music fans is the concert production of Richard Strauss’ Elektra by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson. The second and final performance is in the concert hall tonight, Monday 24th February. It is possibly a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear soprano Christine Goerke…