The passion in wagner
Wagner-mania continues this month with this feature from Paul Mason in The Guardian.
Wagner-mania continues this month with this feature from Paul Mason in The Guardian.
The Tinalley String Quartet has embarked on an exciting new chapter of recordings with the release today of an album containing the music of the two greatest protagonists in the French Impressionist movement: Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. The album is being released to coincide with global commemorations of the 100th anniversary of Debussy’s death…
Opening at the English National Opera on September 13th is a new production of Verdi’s Otello. Debuting in the title role is Stuart Skelton. In fact, it is an Australian double for the male leads as Jonathan Summers sings the role of Iago. This production of Otello at the ENO marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth….
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra welcomes 10 leading young musicians to its internationally-recognised Fellowship program. This year-long program offering emerging artists the opportunity to work with the Sydney Symphony, receive technical and practical mentoring by permanent orchestra members, and the crucial training to secure positions in professional orchestras around the world. Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellowship Artistic…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra has wrapped up a hugely successful and comprehensive tour of Europe with a private recital for Prince Charles and 150 invited guests at St James’ Palace. During the tour, the ACO performed in Birmingham, London, at Vienna’s Musikverein, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, in Antwerp, Wilhelmshaven, Luxembourg and Basel. This brings up their half century…
Miriam Cosic previews the Sydney Symphony’s staged production of Tchaikovsky’s mammoth opera: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/gamblers-tale-makes-for-another-sure-bet/story-e6frg8n6-1226526044660
Congratulations to violinist Kyla Matsuura-Miller who has won the The Music Trust’s 2021 Freedman Classical Fellowship. Kyla and finalists Eliza Shephard (flute), Will Hansen (double bass) and Molly Collier-O’Boyle (viola) competed for the coveted $21,000 prize in a concert final that was filmed in Sydney and Melbourne, and streamed online via the Australian Digital Concert Hall. The 28-year-old Matsuura-Miller is a Tokyo-born,…