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December 2019
Opera with a dash of Christmas
Experience the power and sensitivity of these artists, as Italian pianist, director and composer Alessio Nelli joins soprano Susannah Lawergren and mezzo-soprano Hannah Fraser in an intimate recital of beautiful music dear to their hearts. From their own arrangements of traditional folk songs to the soaring melodies of opera's most-loved arias and duets. Each musician with independently courageous and remarkable journeys, brought together under one spotlight. A musical feast not to be missed! Program includes works by: Jules MASSENET Giacomo MEYERBEER…
Find out more »Sydney Youth Orchestra: Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet
Tickets: Adult $50 | Concession $25 | Child $25 Performers & Programs The Sydney Youth Orchestra conducted by Alexander Briger AO PROKOFIEV Romeo & Juliet ELGAR 'Enigma' Variations SYO Philharmonic conducted by Brian Buggy OAM BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture op. 80 The 2019 season finale from the Sydney Youth Orchestra brings together young love, a testimony to friendship, and heart-stopping action in a program directed by SYO Chief Conductor Alexander Briger. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been channelled into countless…
Find out more »Omega Ensemble at the Mint | Sydney Living Museums
Sydney Living Museums presents Omega Ensemble at the Mint – a three part concert series performed by The Omega Ensemble to coincide with the Songs of Home exhibition now on at the Museum of Sydney. Spend your Sunday afternoons enjoying invigorating performances by the Omega Ensemble, one of Australia's foremost professional chamber music groups within the historic city oasis of The Mint on Macquarie Street. Experience one or all of these evocative concerts in this striking setting. Concert One: Songs of…
Find out more »Coro Innominata | Summer is a-coming in
Tickets: Adult $40 | Concession $35 Usher in the long days of our hot Australian summer with music from across the centuries, celebrating a change of season and the familiar rhythms of the year’s end. Featuring both Coro Innominata's musical director Margaret Tesch-Muller and assistant director Margot McGlaughlin, the program ranges from pastoral partsongs with their delightful lilting twists and turns, to languid summer anthems of storms and sunflowers by Clare Maclean, Edward Elgar and award-winning American composer Martin Sedek.…
Find out more »Sydney University Graduate Choir: Rheinberger Star of Bethlehem & Nicolai’s Christmas Overture
Tickets: Adults $50 | Pensioners (no Seniors Card) $40 | Children 16 and under & full-time students $25 The Sydney University Graduate Choir and its Music Director, Christopher Bowen OAM, invite you to join them for a concert of timeless carols and sacred music, featuring the rare delight of Josef Rheinberger’s Christmas Cantata, the Star of Bethlehem. This concert will be presented at the Great Hall, University of Sydney, with a full orchestra. Munich-based Rheinberger (1839-1901) composed the Star of…
Find out more »The Orchestra Project performs Mendelssohn and Mahler
Tickets: Full $40 | Concession $20 All tickets General Admission The Orchestra Project is comprised of musicians from most of Australia's professional orchestras performing alongside some of the very best young musicians throughout the country. A concert to celebrate their Australian classical music community! The Orchestra Project will be joined by Associate Concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Harry Bennetts as soloist in Mendelssohn's iconic Violin Concerto in E Minor Op. 64. The transcendent Mahler Symphony No. 4 with multi-award winning soprano…
Find out more »Opera with a dash of Christmas
Experience the power and sensitivity of these artists, as Italian pianist, director and composer Alessio Nelli joins soprano Susannah Lawergren and mezzo-soprano Hannah Fraser in an intimate recital of beautiful music dear to their hearts. From their own arrangements of traditional folk songs to the soaring melodies of opera's most-loved arias and duets. Each musician with independently courageous and remarkable journeys, brought together under one spotlight. A musical feast not to be missed! Program includes works by: Jules MASSENET Giacomo MEYERBEER…
Find out more »Opera High Tea at The Castlereagh | Rudolpho’s Christmas
Celebrate the season in style! Discover a stunning hidden-Sydney venue and indulge in some of the opera world's most beautiful music. Following their last sold out event, Opera Bites has once again partnered with The Castlereagh Boutique Hotel to bring you a festive afternoon of celebrated popular opera complete with a decadent sparkling high tea. As you step through the doors of this breath-taking heritage listed ballroom you’ll find yourself immersed in the world of operatic splendour. Tickets include entertainment, sumptuous high tea and…
Find out more »Music for Albania – A concert to raise funds for the relief effort after the recent earthquake in Albania
Admission $30 at the door. A concert to raise funds for the relief effort after the recent earthquake in Albania. A Concert of music by Albanian composers Enis Mullaj, Ergis Spahiu and Kris Sopiqoti as well as Mozart, Schumann, Andrián Pertout and Alan Holley. Admission $30 at the door and a not to miss Raffle. Sydney artists Merrick Fry and Rod Holdaway have donated artworks and also, three fine bottles! Performers: Diane Berger has been principal piccolo with the Opera…
Find out more »March 2020
Wyvern Music Forestville | A Journey Through Love
Acclaimed Australian lyric soprano, Anita Kyle and noted Australian pianist, Josephine Allan transport the audience on "A Journey Through Love" with operatic favourites by Mozart, Dvorak, Rossini, Puccini, Lehar and others, and Romantic songs from German, Austria, France, Spain and Russia by such greats as Schubert, Rachmaninov, Richard Strauss, Chopin, and Delibes for Wyvern Music Forestville. Anita Kyle was the winner of the National Operatic Aria and the Music Teachers’ Association of NSW Vocal Scholarship and was awarded the MTO German-Australian Opera Grant, a 12-month solo…
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