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Canberra International Music Festival: Finlandia – Festival Finale

Snow Concert Hall 40 Monaro Cres, Red Hill ACT 2603, Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Anchored by the beloved hymn Finlandia and featuring a debut collaboration with an ensemble of powerhouse, Australian-based Finnish musicians, this program promises to captivate audiences with its scale and artistic depth. Featuring over 200 voices from local choirs and community singers, it celebrates Finnish-Australian relations in a unique, participatory event. Audiences can…
Editor's Choice Manon

The Australian Ballet: Manon

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s masterpiece makes a welcome return after more than a decade. Originally created for The Royal Ballet in 1974, it came to our shores 20 years later, thrilling audiences with its sumptuous retelling of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel. Prepare to be moved by Manon’s doomed love affair with…
The Art Of

Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra: The Art Of

The Empire Theatres, Toowoomba 54-56 Neil Street, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
An inspiring and refreshing collaboration between QPAC’s Art of the Possible artist, the ARIA award-winning pianist, Paul Grabowsky AO, together with Camerata This concert brings QPAC’s Art of the Possible artist, the inimitable pianist, Paul Grabowsky AO, together with Camerata in a program that celebrates tradition and reimagines it. Hear…

The University of Melbourne: Draevon – Between Light and Darkness

Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Transfigured String Trio presents Russian composer Alfred Schnitkke’s extraordinary dark and compelling string trio in its original format composed in 1985 just prior to him suffering a severe stroke that led into a coma. After being declared clinically dead on several occasions, he went on to survive and continued composing…
Editor's Choice Manon

The Australian Ballet: Manon

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s masterpiece makes a welcome return after more than a decade. Originally created for The Royal Ballet in 1974, it came to our shores 20 years later, thrilling audiences with its sumptuous retelling of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel. Prepare to be moved by Manon’s doomed love affair with…
fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival

fortyfivedownstairs: Egmont / Prometheus

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
An incredibly ambitious opening night program performed by Coady Green, Ian Munro, Justin Kenealy, Paul English, Antoinette Halloran, and the Divisi Chamber Singers. Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus Opus 43, for piano four hands (arr. Carl Czerny) Coady Green, Ian Munro Beethoven: Egmont Opus 84, for narrator, two…

Australian Chamber Orchestra: An Evening with the ACO Collective Quartet

The Art House 19-21 Margaret Street, Wyong, NSW, Australia
Featuring classical masterworks by Bach, Beethoven and Dvořák, alongside contemporary works by Philip Glass and Caroline Shaw, interspersed with delightfully informative introductions to the music. Acclaimed for the energy and dynamism of their performances, the ACO Collective Quartet is made up of graduates from the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s renowned Emerging…
Opera in the Pub

Opera Bites: Opera Royalty

The Harold 70A Ross Street, Forest Lodge, NSW, Australia
Opera . . . in a pub? You heard right! Opera Bites brings best-loved opera hits to the relaxed atmosphere of your local pub. Tickets include a 90-minute, fully costumed show, upstairs at The Harold, Glebe Opera Royalty - Kings and queens, princes and princesses, opera is full of royalty.…
Featured Editor's Choice Rapture

Australian String Quartet: Rapture

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
ASQ lifts the lid on our deepest fears and desires, from the unrequited love expressed in Janáček’s Intimate Letters to Osvaldo Golijov’s juxtaposition of pain and beauty in Tenebrae and Beethoven’s triumph over adversity in Serioso. The program also includes the world premiere of Vanessa Perica’s No Feeling is Final, which…
The Art Of

Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra: The Art Of

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
An inspiring and refreshing collaboration between QPAC’s Art of the Possible artist, the ARIA award-winning pianist, Paul Grabowsky AO, together with Camerata This concert brings QPAC’s Art of the Possible artist, the inimitable pianist, Paul Grabowsky AO, together with Camerata in a program that celebrates tradition and reimagines it. Hear…
Editor's Choice Manon

The Australian Ballet: Manon

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s masterpiece makes a welcome return after more than a decade. Originally created for The Royal Ballet in 1974, it came to our shores 20 years later, thrilling audiences with its sumptuous retelling of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel. Prepare to be moved by Manon’s doomed love affair with…
fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival

fortyfivedownstairs: The Juliet Letters

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Juliet Letters is a studio album by the British singer and songwriter Elvis Costello and British string quartet Brodsky Quartet released in 1993. Costello described the album as “a song sequence for string quartet and voice… It’s a little bit different. It’s not a rock opera. It’s a whole…

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