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    • Invitation to the Dance

    Salut! Baroque: Invitation to the Dance

    Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “Music and dance are all you need.” Molière: Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) Dance and diplomacy were inseparable at Louis XIV’s opulent palace in Versailles. Every aspect of the palace was designed to reinforce the King’s absolute authority, and Louis protected his political power through pageantry. In appointing the Italian-born musician,…

    • Bohemian Rhapsody

    Salut! Baroque: Bohemian Rhapsody

    Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “If the Bohemians had the advantages enjoyed by the Italians they would surpass them. They are perhaps the most musical race in all Europe”. Charles Burney (1773) The celebrations for the crowning of Charles VI as King of Bohemia in Prague in 1723 included an opera performance by 200 musicians…

    • Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra: Love, Loss & Madness

    Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Bel canto tales of love, loss and madness from 19th-century Italy, told by some of Australia’s most brilliant singers, using all the chiaroscuro and passion of the human voice against a lush backdrop of historical strings, winds and brass. Based on groundbreaking new research by Prof. Neal Peres Da Costa,…

    • Charms in Musick

    Salut! Baroque: Charms in Musick

    Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “If there are Charms in Musick in general, all the reasonable World agrees, that the Vocal has the Pre-eminence, both from Nature and Art above the Instrumental.” JE Galliard (1743) Ancient Greek theatre inspired a gathering of musicians, poets and intellectuals in Florence in the late 16th century to create…