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Chamber, Classical Music
news

Musica Viva Australia announces 2025 season

Paul Kildea celebrates MVA's monumental 80th birthday with eight tours, 15 international artists and "enormous gratitude".

October 1, 2024
Classical Music, Opera
news

Pinchgut 2025: A bucket list made to share

Erin Helyard goes solo on the Goldbergs; a state-of-the-art Fairy Queen at the Roslyn Packer; a "translucent" Messiah, and more.

September 24, 2024
Opera
news

Opera Australia launches Season 2025

After navigating turbulence in recent weeks, Opera Australia charts a course to "engage and delight" in 2025.

September 17, 2024
Opera
Live Review

Review: Eternal Light (Pinchgut Opera)

Music of ravishing beauty from the 16th and 17th centuries polished to a glow in this exquisite Pinchgut Opera showcase.

August 26, 2024
Classical Music
news

Canberra Symphony Orchestra Unveils Season 2025

CSO's 75 anniversary season features seven world premieres, works by Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Holst, and new compositions by First Nations artists.

August 8, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Handel’s Water Music (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

Erin Helyard and the SSO show that Mr Handel’s Water Music still floats everybody’s boat 400 years on.

July 1, 2024
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: The Mozart Album (Australian Haydn Ensemble, Erin Helyard, Skye McIntosh)

Mozart concertos joined at the HIP by Aussie favourites Helyard and McIntosh.

June 20, 2024
Opera
Live Review

Review: Dido and Aeneas (Pinchgut Opera)

Henry Purcell’s pocket opera Dido and Aeneas is a work ripe for reconstruction.

May 31, 2024
Classical Music, Instrumental
CD and Other Review

Review: Four Hands at Home: Music for Piano Duet (Stephanie McCallum, Erin Helyard)

Four hands better than two in delightful Romantic works for piano duet.

May 17, 2024
Opera
features

Pinchgut Opera’s Dido & Aeneas: “A gift for a theatre director”

Lucy Clements has been a prime mover of new Australian work. How does she approach a Purcell masterpiece over 300 years old?

May 15, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Handel and Vivaldi Arias (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)

Australia’s Mr Baroque, Erin Helyard, led a splendid concert starring soprano Samantha Clarke.

April 5, 2024
Opera
news

Pinchgut Opera announces Continuo Fellow

Singer and harpsichordist Liam Green to join Pinchgut's specialist program for continuo players.

March 1, 2024
Opera
Live Review

Review: Theodora in Concert (Opera Australia & Pinchgut Opera)

Baroque is back at the Sydney Opera House in the form of Handel's pungent tale of religious intolerance and sacrifice in a polarised society.

February 9, 2024

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