Update on the ‘Ring’
Click here to read Matthew Westwood’s update on the Melbourne Ring cycle in The Australian.
Click here to read Matthew Westwood’s update on the Melbourne Ring cycle in The Australian.
Create NSW is inviting arts and cultural organisations and Local Government Authorities to apply for NSW Government’s multi-yearfunding.
This week’s programme from New York’s Metropolitan Opera: Tuesday, June 16 Rossini’s Semiramide Wednesday, June 17 Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride Thursday, June 18, and Friday, June 19 Verdi’s La Forza del Destino Saturday, June 20 Philip Glass’s Akhnaten Sunday, June 21 Philip Glass’s Satyagraha Monday, June 22 Verdi’s La Traviata Each stream becomes available at…
Following the shock news yesterday that the SBS Youth Orchestra was to fold in 2014, after 25 years in operation, the SBSYO and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra have released a joint statement announcing the endowment of a Fellowship position with the SSO. “The Board of the SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra has today announced…
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) today announced that 29-year-old Nicholas Carter has been appointed to the position of Principal Conductor – the first time in 30 years that an Australian has been appointed to lead a state orchestra since Stuart Challender was named Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony in 1987. In a coup…
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis continue their acclaimed recordings of the orchestral music of Richard Strauss, with this latest volume featuring three world-class soloists – James Ehnes, Daniel Müller-Schott and Christopher Moore – performing two of Strauss’ finest early works: the Violin Concerto, and the tone poem Don Quixote. Performed…
Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva releases her 4th CD Alleluia this week. It is named after the final movement of Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate K165, which is the last of 4 motets on the recording, the others being by Vivaldi (In furore iustissimae irae, RV626), Handel (Saeviat Tellus Inter Rigores, HWV240) and Porpora (In caelo stele clare fulgescant). The…