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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
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 Brisbane Bel Canto

Opera Queensland: Lucia di Lammermoor

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank
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
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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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Eroica

Federation Concert Hall Hobart
Conducted by Johannes Fritsch, the program opens with the world premiere of Flashout by Australian composer Harry Sdraulig. It is followed by Emily Sun in Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D. Weaving together the composer’s Hollywood motifs, it provides Sun ample opportunity to show off her violin’s upper range against an…
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
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
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;…

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