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August 2018
SIMONE YOUNG CONDUCTS BRAHMS
" liquid but decisive gestures invite nuance and subtlety, while demanding energy and rhythmic precision… It is a joy to watch such a wonderful conductor so hard at work”. – The Australian Richard Strauss’ sorrow-laden Metamorphosen, a threnody for the Germany of 1944 that lay in ruins about him, teeters precariously on the edge of this world and another: following its final bars, we are inevitably left staring into an immense silence. The life-affirming answer is the elegiac lyricism of Brahms’ Third Symphony.…
Find out more »Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Poetical Melodies
The sublime string section of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra takes centre stage in this program from the Romantic period
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Tormented Souls
Australia’s unique chamber music series returns in 2018 for a season devoted to celebrating musical partnerships
Find out more »September 2018
Melbourne Musicians: Two by Two
Two by Two: Bach and Vivaldi Double Concertos with Miki Tsunoda and Anne Harvey-Nagl – violin
Find out more »MCO: España!
Christoph Denoth is one of the world’s finest guitarists. In his Australian debut, Christoph joins MCO for a passionate celebration of life, love, music and dance through music of Spain, including Rodrigo’s treasured Concierto de Aranjuez and music of Albéniz, Malats & Granados.
Find out more »In Memoriam – Mozart Requiem
Mozart’s timeless Requiem is the centrepiece of this concert of works written on similar themes, beginning with Mozart’s expressive Passion aria for soprano, Kommet her, ihr frechen Sünder (1779). JS Bach’s cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (whose opening later became the Crucifixus of his Mass in B minor) includes Bach’s first extended solo for oboe in the beautiful aria for alto, a duet for bass and tenor, and a mournful tenor aria. Remembrance is the specific focus of two heartfelt…
Find out more »MCO: España!
Christoph Denoth is one of the world’s finest guitarists. In his Australian debut, Christoph joins MCO for a passionate celebration of life, love, music and dance through music of Spain, including Rodrigo’s treasured Concierto de Aranjuez and music of Albéniz, Malats & Granados.
Find out more »The Space Between
Opera has a habit of killing its heroines, but this one's not going without a fight. Australia's sharpest creative minds have joined forces to reimagine opera for the twenty-first century in The Space Between, which makes its world premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 to 23 September 2018. Created by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard, The Space Between is performed by Australia’s most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews. A diva sings her final note and is plunged into an abyss…
Find out more »The Space Between
Opera has a habit of killing its heroines, but this one's not going without a fight. Australia's sharpest creative minds have joined forces to reimagine opera for the twenty-first century in The Space Between, which makes its world premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 to 23 September 2018. Created by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard, The Space Between is performed by Australia’s most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews. A diva sings her final note and is plunged into an abyss…
Find out more »The Space Between
Opera has a habit of killing its heroines, but this one's not going without a fight. Australia's sharpest creative minds have joined forces to reimagine opera for the twenty-first century in The Space Between, which makes its world premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 to 23 September 2018. Created by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard, The Space Between is performed by Australia’s most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews. A diva sings her final note and is plunged into an abyss…
Find out more »The Space Between
Opera has a habit of killing its heroines, but this one's not going without a fight. Australia's sharpest creative minds have joined forces to reimagine opera for the twenty-first century in The Space Between, which makes its world premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 to 23 September 2018. Created by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard, The Space Between is performed by Australia’s most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews. A diva sings her final note and is plunged into an abyss…
Find out more »The Space Between
Opera has a habit of killing its heroines, but this one's not going without a fight. Australia's sharpest creative minds have joined forces to reimagine opera for the twenty-first century in The Space Between, which makes its world premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 to 23 September 2018. Created by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard, The Space Between is performed by Australia’s most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews. A diva sings her final note and is plunged into an abyss…
Find out more »The Space Between
Opera has a habit of killing its heroines, but this one's not going without a fight. Australia's sharpest creative minds have joined forces to reimagine opera for the twenty-first century in The Space Between, which makes its world premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 to 23 September 2018. Created by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard, The Space Between is performed by Australia’s most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews. A diva sings her final note and is plunged into an abyss…
Find out more »The Space Between
Opera has a habit of killing its heroines, but this one's not going without a fight. Australia's sharpest creative minds have joined forces to reimagine opera for the twenty-first century in The Space Between, which makes its world premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 to 23 September 2018. Created by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard, The Space Between is performed by Australia’s most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews. A diva sings her final note and is plunged into an abyss…
Find out more »The Space Between
Opera has a habit of killing its heroines, but this one's not going without a fight. Australia's sharpest creative minds have joined forces to reimagine opera for the twenty-first century in The Space Between, which makes its world premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 to 23 September 2018. Created by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard, The Space Between is performed by Australia’s most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews. A diva sings her final note and is plunged into an abyss…
Find out more »The Space Between
Opera has a habit of killing its heroines, but this one's not going without a fight. Australia's sharpest creative minds have joined forces to reimagine opera for the twenty-first century in The Space Between, which makes its world premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 to 23 September 2018. Created by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard, The Space Between is performed by Australia’s most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews. A diva sings her final note and is plunged into an abyss…
Find out more »The Space Between
Opera has a habit of killing its heroines, but this one's not going without a fight. Australia's sharpest creative minds have joined forces to reimagine opera for the twenty-first century in The Space Between, which makes its world premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 to 23 September 2018. Created by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard, The Space Between is performed by Australia’s most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews. A diva sings her final note and is plunged into an abyss…
Find out more »The Space Between
Opera has a habit of killing its heroines, but this one's not going without a fight. Australia's sharpest creative minds have joined forces to reimagine opera for the twenty-first century in The Space Between, which makes its world premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne from 13 to 23 September 2018. Created by Paul Grabowsky and Steve Vizard, The Space Between is performed by Australia’s most highly-awarded soprano Emma Matthews. A diva sings her final note and is plunged into an abyss…
Find out more »PLEXUS | Parallel
PLEXUS brings together the talents of three of Australia’s most vibrant and versatile musicians, violinist Monica Curro, clarinetist Philip Arkinstall and pianist Stefan Cassomenos, with the goal of commissioning and celebrating Australian and international composers.
Find out more »October 2018
Arts Centre Melbourne presents Normie Rowe and The Playboys
Relive Normie Rowe’s extraordinary performing career this October. During the explosion of pop music in the mid-60s, Normie Rowe and The Playboys were Australia’s most successful pop stars, with a string of record breaking hits including ‘Que Sera Sera’, ‘Shakin’ All Over’, ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’, ‘It’s Not Easy’ and ‘Ooh La La’. In the midst of Beatlemania, a teenage Normie became the first Melbournian to achieve a national No.1 hit, creating a fan and media hysteria never before seen…
Find out more »Evergreen Ensemble: Snow in Summer
Evergreen Ensemble pays homage to the music of the cold and windswept landscapes of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, as well exploring their Scandinavian ties.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Four Seasons
Australia’s unique chamber music series returns in 2018 for a season devoted to celebrating musical partnerships
Find out more »November 2018
Flinders Quartet: Is it True? (Ist es wahr?)
Mendelssohn was fascinated by Beethoven as a teenager and his Op. 13 string quartet draws on inspiration from this great master, as well as his own song Frage which asks the question “Ist es wahr?”
Find out more »A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong with The Syncopators and Yvette Johansson
A rapturous homage to the king and queen of jazz. Beginning with jazz’s most powerful figure, Louis Armstrong, The Syncopators will take you back to the 1920s to explore his pioneering influence on the artform. Then moving forward to the big band era of the 1930s, with a joyous celebration of Satchmo’s famous vocal duets with America’s First Lady of Song: the unparalleled Ella Fitzgerald. Hardly strangers to Arts Centre Melbourne, The Syncopators have raised the roof of Hamer Hall with sell-out…
Find out more »Flinders Quartet: Is it True? (Ist es wahr?)
Mendelssohn was fascinated by Beethoven as a teenager and his Op. 13 string quartet draws on inspiration from this great master, as well as his own song Frage which asks the question “Ist es wahr?”
Find out more »MCO: Bach Suites
Full of jubilation and the sheer splendour of sound, Bach's suites are among his most uplifting music. This celebration of Bach includes the third and fourth suites, the much-loved double violin concerto, and a new concerto by national treasure RIchard Mills.
Find out more »Melbourne Intervarsity Choir: Bach Suites
Full of jubilation and the sheer splendour of sound, Bach's suites are among his most uplifting music. This celebration of Bach includes the third and fourth suites, the much-loved double violin concerto, and a new concerto by national treasure RIchard Mills.
Find out more »December 2018
PLEXUS | Perpendicular
PLEXUS brings together the talents of three of Australia’s most vibrant and versatile musicians, violinist Monica Curro, clarinetist Philip Arkinstall and pianist Stefan Cassomenos, with the goal of commissioning and celebrating Australian and international composers.
Find out more »