Continuing its Homecasts this week, the Australian Chamber Orchestra presents violinist Maja Savnik in ‘The Balkan Express’ a quirky and stirring tribute to her Balkan heritage, filmed from her Sydney home. “I created this video as an homage to my former homeland of Yugoslavia and as a way of sharing our culture, but also with the intention of making people smile and remember that we’re all in this together” she says.
There is a rare chance to hear the legendary American soprano Beverly Sills in a classic telecast of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Joyce DiDonato as the Lady of the Lake in Rossini’s take on Sir Walter Scott, William Kentridge’s ingenious staging of Shostakovich’s The Nose, Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena finding love in Donizetti’s La Fille du…
The Acacia Quartet comprising violinists Lisa Stewart and Myee Clohessy, violist Stefan Duwe and cellist Anna Martin-Scrase, returns to the Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House with Rhythm & Texture, aptly illustrated by the String Quartet No. 7 by Shostakovich and the String Quartet in F major by Ravel, alongside little known works by Golijov and…
The Australian String Quartet returns to Sydney with Beethoven Widmann Beethoven, a concert crossing artistic disciplines and time, in an immersive musical experience with direction by Australian theatre-maker Andy Packer. The ASQ bookends its program with two of Beethoven’s great quartets, his final quartet, the String Quartet in F major op 135 and the very first quartet…
Christ Church St Laurence holds its Advent Carols service with the theme being Vigil for the release of prisoners and captives. The programme includes music by Byrd, Elgar, Stanford and Wills, as well as antiphons, responses, hymns and readings appropriate to the season. The service is free and should last around 80 minutes. Seating is unreserved…
Sydney University Musical Society and the University of Sydney Union present Karl Jenkins’ modern masterpiece Stella Natalis (Birth Star). Composed in 2009, Stella Natalis is a twelve-movement work celebrating different aspects of Christmastide, such as winter, the sleeping child, peace and thanksgiving. Over the jittery, uneven rhythms, the chorus sings in languages that include English,…
A novel and exciting collaboration is born with drumming ensemble TaikOz and classical Indian dance company Lingalayam joining forces to perform Chi Udaka, a world premiere presented by the Sydney Festival and the Seymour Centre. The powerful rhythms of TaikOz merge with the intricate classical Indian dance movements of Bharatha Natyam and Kuchipudi as both…