Baritone Matthias Goerne arrives in Australia
Preview Matthias Goerne’s tour of Australia:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/sublime-fusion-of-song-and-voice-20110925-1krky.html
Preview Matthias Goerne’s tour of Australia:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/sublime-fusion-of-song-and-voice-20110925-1krky.html
Roland Peelman, Artistic Director of the Song Company since 1990 is to step down from this post at the end of 2015, it has been announced. The Song Company is one of Australia’s pre-eminent professional vocal ensembles which performs repertoire from across the centuries, in a spectrum of styles and with a variety of collaborators….
A $400 million upgrade is planned for the Sydney Opera House, reports Matthew Westwood in The Australian. Does this plan place too much competition on the venue to live up to expectations as a tourist facility as well as a centre for the arts and its ensembles in residence?
At the risk of resorting to a clichè, we are witnessing unprecedented times around the globe. The performing arts industry in Australia has suffered a double blow, through a complete shutdown of the performing arts for most of the rest of the year, as well as drastic cuts in Arts Council funding – there simply…
The rest of this week’s offerings from the Met Live in HD archive: Wednesday, May 20 Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Kathleen Kim, Stephanie Blythe, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From December 8, 2012. Thursday, May 21 Puccini’s Turandot Starring Christine Goerke, Eleonora Buratto, Yusif Eyvazov, and James Morris, conducted…
The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) has undertaken an major commissioning project called The ANAM Set and has announced the sixty-seven Australian composers who will be participating in what is arguably one of the biggest commissioning projects ever undertaken in Australia.
Readers will be familiar with numerous studies claiming the physical and psychological benefits of participating in musical activities. The pressures of being a solo performer in the public eye are anything but calming. Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix – rock stars who died young weren’t the only ones. In classical music, Pergolesi,…