Event Series Dido and Aeneas

Pinchgut Opera: Dido and Aeneas

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Acclaimed for its insightful and unique interpretations of the lesser-known works from the Baroque period, Pinchgut Opera also relishes the opportunity to put its signature stamp on one of the best-known operas in the repertory. Dido and Aeneas is the perfect operatic gem. Few stories capture the essence of tragic…
Event Series Dido and Aeneas

Pinchgut Opera: Dido and Aeneas

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Acclaimed for its insightful and unique interpretations of the lesser-known works from the Baroque period, Pinchgut Opera also relishes the opportunity to put its signature stamp on one of the best-known operas in the repertory. Dido and Aeneas is the perfect operatic gem. Few stories capture the essence of tragic…
Event Series Kirill Gerstein

Musica Viva Australia: Kirill Gerstein

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Kirill Gerstein is a showman, a philosopher, and a poet of the piano. He grew up playing jazz, switched to classical and won the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition at just 22. Since then, he has carved out a formidable reputation as a fearless artist who makes the impossible…
Event Series Patti LuPone

Michael Cassel Group: Patti LuPone – A Life in Notes

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Music has the power to crystallize a moment in time and evoke eras. Stage and screen icon Patti LuPone makes a triumphant return to the Australian stage with her latest show, direct from Carnegie Hall! Patti LuPone: A Life in Notes, the three-time Tony Award winner performs an array of…
Event Series Patti LuPone

Michael Cassel Group: Patti LuPone – A Life in Notes

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Music has the power to crystallize a moment in time and evoke eras. Stage and screen icon Patti LuPone makes a triumphant return to the Australian stage with her latest show, direct from Carnegie Hall! Patti LuPone: A Life in Notes, the three-time Tony Award winner performs an array of…

The Song Company: Vespers for Mother Earth

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Join us in celebrating The Song Company's 40th Anniversary with a musical event like no other—the world premiere of Vespers for Mother Earth, an astonishing composition by beloved composer Ross Edwards. Inspired by Monteverdi's masterpiece Vespero della Beata Vergine, Edwards ingeniously weaves symbols of day and night into a profound…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Alexander Melnikov In Recital

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Alexander Melnikov is one of the world's most admired pianists, the inheritor of the full richness of the Russian piano tradition. The Guardian rated him ‘the interpreter of choice for piano work,’ and his countless accolades include awards from Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine, Diapason d'Or and many others. His…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Water Music

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Handel’s Water Music was an 18th-century show stopper. Commissioned by King George I for a concert on the Thames, all of London turned out to see Handel and his orchestra floating up and down the river on a barge, playing this exciting, lavish music. It’s a foot-tapping party on and…
Event Series Beethoven’s Fifth

Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven’s Fifth

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hybrid Hybrid Event
AHE continues its exploration of historical arrangements of Beethoven’s masterworks on period instruments. Get up close and personal with Beethoven’s mighty Fifth Symphony, as the septet reveals surprising new intensities. William Watts, who made the arrangement, would have led the violins or violas at its British premiere in 1816, when…