The Australian maestro will bring the expat supergroup together with ANAM students in Melbourne this July. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
A surprising branch of Alexander Briger’s family tree sees his Moscow opera engagement turn into a media frenzy.
Alexander Briger has wowed audiences as the second Australian ever to conduct the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Zubin Mehta recommends the Australian World Orchestra’s Alexander Briger for a six-concert series. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
★★★★☆ Double basses take the spotlight to celebrate five years of AWO. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
To mark its fifth birthday, the Australian World Orchestra will perform in Singapore following its 2016 Sydney season. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
An intense and emotional evening of music making from a fine youth orchestra. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Just a quarter of the 49 arts sector recipients named in 2016’s honours list are women and all but two are white. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
2016 will feature the premiere of a world-first concerto for 8 double basses by Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Maestro Zubin Mehta will conduct the acclaimed orchestra on a tour of India. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Sir Simon becomes the AWO’s latest big-hitter, and this time he’s bringing the wife! Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
How the Australian World Orchestra snared the great Zubin Mehta for this year's concerts.
I made my debut at the Theatre du Chatelet last year conducting the Paris premiere of John Adams' first, and extremely complicated, opera Nixon in China. That, along with the Canadian Opera Company's production of Janacek's From the House of the Dead, was the most pleasurable new production I have conducted. It may have been a risk to programme this work but it paid off in spades as the French went literally wild for it and it received rave reviews in every paper and magazine worldwide. It led to the Director of the Chatelet, Jean-Luc Choplin, who is very daring in his programming, wanting to stretch the boundaries further by mounting Adams' third opera I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky, in which he asked me to return and conduct and premieres here on June 11. "Ceiling" is not your average "opera". It was written by Adams in 1995 and centres around the LA earthquake of 1994. Adams wanted to make a departure from the true operatic world of his first two operas and try his hand at the musicals from Gershwin, Bernstein etc. that he had grown up with. The result is a mix…
