Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: The Peasant Prince – Relaxed Performance

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Join the MSO as they bring the beautiful picture book The Peasant Prince to life. Based on his best-selling memoir Mao’s Last Dancer, this work narrates with words and music the inspiring story of Li Cunxin’s childhood and follows his subsequent journey to become one of the world’s greatest ballet dancers. Katy Abbott,…

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Symphony in a Day

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Conductor Carlo Antonioli leads community musicians alongside members of the MSO in this special side by side performance featuring Mussorgsky's colourful Pictures at an Exhibition.
Event Series RISING 2024

RISING Festival: 8/8/8 – REST

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
And on the second weekend of RISING, we REST. In 2022 we clocked on for 8/8/8: WORK—the first in Marcus McKenzie and Harriet Gillies’ triptych about work, rest and play. It was eight straight hours of life-coach gurus, micro-dosing techbros, office politics and piss. We laughed, we clapped, we shaved…
Event Series RISING 2024

RISING Festival: 8/8/8 – REST

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
And on the second weekend of RISING, we REST. In 2022 we clocked on for 8/8/8: WORK—the first in Marcus McKenzie and Harriet Gillies’ triptych about work, rest and play. It was eight straight hours of life-coach gurus, micro-dosing techbros, office politics and piss. We laughed, we clapped, we shaved…

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Schumann and Tchaikovsky

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Join the MSO and conductor Anja Bihlmaier in exploring the musical introspection of two of classical music’s most profoundly talented and intensely emotional composers. Lord Byron’s poem Manfred follows a man tortured by guilt, who summons supernatural beings before dying from madness. The story presents devastating parallels to Schumann’s own…
Event Series Morning Melodies: Lucy Durack

Arts Centre Melbourne: Orchestra Victoria with Andrea Lam

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Appearing in concert halls from Carnegie Hall  to the Sydney Opera House, pianist Andrea Lam’s career spans across the globe. Renowned for her crystalline clarity, expressive lyrism and virtuosity, she has been inspiring and enrapturing audiences ever since her orchestral debut at age 13. For this special Morning Melodies program,…
Event Series Morning Melodies: Lucy Durack

Arts Centre Melbourne: Orchestra Victoria with Andrea Lam

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Appearing in concert halls from Carnegie Hall  to the Sydney Opera House, pianist Andrea Lam’s career spans across the globe. Renowned for her crystalline clarity, expressive lyrism and virtuosity, she has been inspiring and enrapturing audiences ever since her orchestral debut at age 13. For this special Morning Melodies program,…

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Join the MSO and conductor Anja Bihlmaier in exploring the musical introspection of two of classical music’s most profoundly talented and intensely emotional composers. Lord Byron’s poem Manfred follows a man tortured by guilt, who summons supernatural beings before dying from madness. The story presents devastating parallels to Schumann’s own…

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Classic 100 in Concert

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Every year for over two decades, ABC Classic have asked music lovers to nominate their favourite pieces on a particular theme, counting down the results across an exciting weekend in June.  With the help of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, ABC presenters and special guests, experience highlights live in concert. This…

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Jaime conducts Rachmaninov and Dvořák

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Joined by dazzling Belgian pianist Denis Kozhukhin, Jaime Martín conducts the MSO in this uplifting program of musical treats, including a lively operatic overture, Rachmaninov’s enduringly popular Second Piano Concerto, and a sparkling symphony from Dvořák. The Overture to Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila is the epitome of orchestral curtain-raisers,…