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Editor's Choice Carmen

Opera Australia: Carmen

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks helms a new production of Bizet’s classic that aims to be “a Carmen for our time”, asking “urgent questions about opera’s iconic femme fatale”. Given her insightful semi-staged take on Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves last year, she might just do it. An intriguing…
Simone Young conducts Richard Strauss

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Simone Young conducts Richard Strauss

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Richard Strauss’ Thus Spoke Zarathustra launched into popular consciousness in the 1960s, dramatically underscoring the opening scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Strauss’ sublime shifts from darkness to light are timeless, and jaw-dropping to experience live. Embark on a profound voyage that includes one of Strauss’ great tone poems and a piano concerto…

North Adelaide Baroque Hall: France & Italy

North Adelaide Baroque Hall 104 Tynte St, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
Emma Horwood, soprano Anne Whelan, harpsichord Programme: A. Scarlatti - "Libertà del mio Cor" Boismortier - L'Eté A. Campra - "Motet pour la Sainte Vierge: Ave Regina caelorum" L. Couperin - Piéces de Claveçin
Simone Young conducts Richard Strauss

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Simone Young conducts Richard Strauss

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Richard Strauss’ Thus Spoke Zarathustra launched into popular consciousness in the 1960s, dramatically underscoring the opening scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Strauss’ sublime shifts from darkness to light are timeless, and jaw-dropping to experience live. Embark on a profound voyage that includes one of Strauss’ great tone poems and a piano concerto…

Tempo Rubato: Rob Hao: Potpourri Piano

Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
Contemporary piano music, featuring Chopin’s final two Nocturnes, Brahms, Saariaho, Dominic Flynn and a new commission by Michael Finnissy - the tenth installment in his ‘Political Agenda’ series. Rob Hao is an Australian pianist and composer. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and has performed around…
Editor's Choice A Musical Awakening

Australian Chamber Orchestra: A Musical Awakening

Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Directed by ACO Principal Cello Timo-Veikko Valve, this soul-stirring concert explores music’s power to console, uplift and renew. Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey joins the ACO for the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang’s flute and echo. Spanning 900 years, the program moves from Hildegard von Bingen’s 12th-century hymn Ave…
Editor's Choice THE MAGIC FLUTE

State Opera South Australia: The Magic Flute

Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
A new creative partnership with Hong Kong Opera and the Beijing Music Festival opens with a Mozart classic. Staged by film, theatre and opera director Shuang Zou and designed by Dan Potra, it fuses one of the finest scores from Classical-era Vienna with the modern visual culture of the Asia-Pacific to create…
Editor's Choice Mahler 4 & 5

Australian World Orchestra: Mahler 4 & 5

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Artistic Director Alexander Briger takes the podium for AWO’s Mahlerfest – a rare opportunity to hear Mahler’s radiant Fourth and monumental Fifth Symphonies back to back. Soprano Sarah Traubel sings the finale of the Fourth, Das himmlische Leben – a child’s vision of heaven, first intended for Mahler’s Third Symphony and originally composed…

Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert – Airs and Graces

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
A fun and fiery display of baroque virtuosity by five of Australia’s leading period performers. Nicola Matteis was a Baroque composer and virtuoso violinist, originally from Naples, who rose to prominence in the late 17th century. Renowned for introducing the expressive and technically demanding Italian violin style to English audiences,…

University of Queensland: Earth Works

University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD, Australia
A collective evocation of the air, the very foundation of the pipe organ – Robert Curgenven's Earth Works offers a liberation and extension of the pipe organ’s possibilities. This is whole body listening – an absorbing experience of sound’s tactility and intimacy – from breath-like gestures through to a tectonic, architectural summoning. Curgenven will…

Australian National Academy of Music: Élégies Harmonique

Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
ANAM’s Head of Piano, Timothy Young, present a program showcasing the expressive range of the fortepiano, featuring works by Jan Ladislav Dussek, Maria Szymanowska, and Franz Schubert. Dussek’s Élégie Harmonique, composed in response to the death of his patron and friend Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia is a powerful expression of grief,…
A Book of Hours

Rubiks Collective: A Book of Hours

The Engine Room 58 View St,, Bendigo, VIC, Australia
A Book of Hours is a meditation on the mystery of time: a live performance combining stop-motion animation, screen dance projections and a quirky live musical score from an ensemble of choreographed musicians. With a quartet for toothbrushes, vegetables swirling in stop-motion and wind-up toys whirring across the stage, this…

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