Editor's Choice Event Series Margaret and the Grey Mare

Sydney Festival: Margaret and the Grey Mare

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1 Powerhouse Rd, Casula, NSW, Australia
Looking for something different? Try this one-hour immersive video opera created by visual artist Katy B Plummer and composer Sally Whitwell, with a little help from artificial intelligence programmed to speak in verse like an oracular Celtic spirit. The story, with video by filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski, evokes 17th-century European witch…
Editor's Choice Event Series Margaret and the Grey Mare

Sydney Festival: Margaret and the Grey Mare

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1 Powerhouse Rd, Casula, NSW, Australia
Looking for something different? Try this one-hour immersive video opera created by visual artist Katy B Plummer and composer Sally Whitwell, with a little help from artificial intelligence programmed to speak in verse like an oracular Celtic spirit. The story, with video by filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski, evokes 17th-century European witch…

Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert | Rhythm Song

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Join acclaimed alumna, harpist and soprano Emma Horwood and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra principal percussionist Steve Peterka as they create a unique soundscape with pedal and Celtic harps, voice and percussion (including bells, chimes, cymbals, crotales, castanets, ocean drum, rain stick and cajón). From medieval chant to Spanish Renaissance villancicos, traditional…

Music in the Regions: Acacia Quartet and International Guests

Leeton Museum and Art Gallery 27 Chelmsford Pl,, Leeton, NSW
Australia’s finest string ensemble, Acacia Quartet, paired with phenomenal international guests, Emile Cantor and Laurentiu Sbarcea, form an incomparable string sextet touring the Riverina and South-West NSW this April. Performing two of the most beautiful and well-loved string sextets, Dvorak’s Op. 48 and Brahms’ Op. 36, this tour also includes the world…
Editor's Choice Event Series Brisbane Bel Canto

Opera Queensland: Stabat Mater

Queensland Conservatorium 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
The centrepiece of this bel canto festival is Patrick Nolan’s costumed concert staging of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor with star soprano Jessica Pratt. Richard Mills conducts the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and the cast includes Carlos Bárcenas as Lucia’s lover Edgardo and Sam Dundas as her brother Enrico. Pratt, a world-famous advocate for…

Coffs Harbour Music Society: Elena Kats-Chernin

St John Paul College Theatre 421 Hogbin Drive, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
Internationally acclaimed composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chernin returns to Coffs Harbour to perform a selection of her own works, including the premiere of Remember When. Presented in association with Musica Viva Australia.
Editor's Choice Event Series Elgar’s Violin Concerto

West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Elgar’s Violin Concerto

Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
Acclaimed British conductor Alpesh Chauhan leads a program that couples Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12 with the Violin Concerto in B minor by Elgar, who took 15 bows when he conducted its world premiere in 1910. Dedicated to Fritz Kreisler, the father of modern-day violin playing, the concerto is performed here…
Editor's Choice Event Series Osmo Vänskä conducts the music of Sibelius

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Osmo Vänskä conducts the music of Sibelius

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dubbed “our greatest living Sibelian” by The Sunday Times, Finnish maestro Osmo Vänskä is joined by soprano Helena Juntunen for this showcase of Sibelius’s folkloric tone poems. They include the myth Luonnotar, in which the daughter of Air drops a seabird’s eggs and thereby creates the sun, the stars, the moon and sky;…
Editor's Choice Event Series Margaret and the Grey Mare

Sydney Festival: Margaret and the Grey Mare

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1 Powerhouse Rd, Casula, NSW, Australia
Looking for something different? Try this one-hour immersive video opera created by visual artist Katy B Plummer and composer Sally Whitwell, with a little help from artificial intelligence programmed to speak in verse like an oracular Celtic spirit. The story, with video by filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski, evokes 17th-century European witch…

North Adelaide Baroque Hall: Bach, Telemann & Bellinzani

North Adelaide Baroque Hall 104 Tynte St, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
Jane Downer, Baroque oboe & recorder Kim Worley, Cello Programme: Bach - Partitas Telemann - Fantasias Bellinzani - Variations on La Folia
Editor's Choice Event Series Brisbane Bel Canto

Opera Queensland: Lucia di Lammermoor

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
The centrepiece of this bel canto festival is Patrick Nolan’s costumed concert staging of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor with star soprano Jessica Pratt. Richard Mills conducts the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and the cast includes Carlos Bárcenas as Lucia’s lover Edgardo and Sam Dundas as her brother Enrico. Pratt, a world-famous advocate for…

Ensemble Offspring: Avant Gardens I

Private Home in Glebe Glebe, NSW, Australia
Read the Limelight review. Back by popular demand, Avant Gardens presents living music in living spaces. The series pairs genre-bending classics with Australian premieres in stunning ‘house concerts’ throughout Sydney. Enjoy chamber music as intended: up close, in a relaxed atmosphere, and surrounded by friendly faces – your safe space to…

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