Darebin Arts: Music for the Stages: Rully Shabara’s XhabaraBot AI Voice Machine

Darebin Arts Centre Cnr Bell St & St Georges Rd, Preston, VIC, Australia
Liquid Architecture presents Indonesian artist Rully Shabara (Senyawa) in collaboration with a special lineup of Melbourne/Naarm based musicians and vocal artists (TBA) for an evening of sound experiments and presentations with and against Rully’s Artificial Intelligence XhabaraBot Voice Machine. ‘The exploration of human voice in terms of singing and vocalisation,…
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…

Sydney Chamber Choir: Mozart Requiem

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Mozart’s Requiem is music of pure gold – shining genius, radiant beauty, profound humanity. The composer’s final act of creation, written in the face of death itself, the Requiem transcends fear and despair to affirm the power of life and hope. It’s one of the greatest works ever written for…

The Early Music Collective: The Inspired JS Bach – Return from Lübeck

St Brigid's, Marrickville 392 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville, NSW, Australia
The highlight of the evening will be Bach's poignant Cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit’ BWV 106, also known as Actus Tragicus, a profoundly moving composition that will transport the audience to the heart of the Baroque period. The program will also include the delightful recorder duets of Telemann,…
Editor's Choice Event Series Canberra International Music Festival

Canberra International Music Festival: Red Dirt Hymns

National Museum of Australia Lawson Crescent, Acton, ACT, Australia
In his final year as Artistic Director, Roland Peelman has chosen to open the festival with William Barton, Persian tar player Hamed Sadeghi and Belgian jazz pianist Bram De Looze, as well as Lior and Nigel Westlake’s Compassion. Guitar virtuoso Pavel Ralev, violist Florian Peelman, France’s Trio Karénine and Dudok Quartet…
Event Series Kiss Me, Kate

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: Kiss Me, Kate

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria presents Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winning 1940’s musical comedy from Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Fifty Million Frenchmen) with a score of witty, hummable hits paired with ridiculous Shakespearean antics from Sam and Bella Spewack (Leave It To Me!, My Three Angels). The battle of…
Event Series Kiss Me, Kate

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: Kiss Me, Kate

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria presents Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winning 1940’s musical comedy from Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Fifty Million Frenchmen) with a score of witty, hummable hits paired with ridiculous Shakespearean antics from Sam and Bella Spewack (Leave It To Me!, My Three Angels). The battle of…
Event Series Kiss Me, Kate

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: Kiss Me, Kate

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria presents Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winning 1940’s musical comedy from Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Fifty Million Frenchmen) with a score of witty, hummable hits paired with ridiculous Shakespearean antics from Sam and Bella Spewack (Leave It To Me!, My Three Angels). The battle of…
Event Series Kiss Me, Kate

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: Kiss Me, Kate

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria presents Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winning 1940’s musical comedy from Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Fifty Million Frenchmen) with a score of witty, hummable hits paired with ridiculous Shakespearean antics from Sam and Bella Spewack (Leave It To Me!, My Three Angels). The battle of…
Event Series Kiss Me, Kate

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria: Kiss Me, Kate

The Alexander Theatre 48 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria presents Kiss Me, Kate, the Tony Award-winning 1940’s musical comedy from Cole Porter (Anything Goes, Fifty Million Frenchmen) with a score of witty, hummable hits paired with ridiculous Shakespearean antics from Sam and Bella Spewack (Leave It To Me!, My Three Angels). The battle of…
Event Series Agatha in Vivaldi’s Venice

Australian Chamber Choir: Agatha in Vivaldi’s Venice

The Scots' Church, Melbourne Corner of Collins and Russell Sts, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Agatha, born without the fingers of her left hand, was abandoned to the Venetian orphanage known as the Ospedale della Pietà, where Vivaldi was working to establish an incomparable music education program.  In 2022 the ACC premiered Agatha’s Cantata, newly completed after three centuries of silence. In 2024, they will…

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