Messiah – Melbourne Town Hall
The 35th Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Concert “The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra delivered another vibrant and polished reading. Music director Andrew Wailes conducted with precision and infectious energy urging the chamber-sized orchestra and 100-strong choir to some stirring…
Messiah – Sydney Town Hall
Radio Community Chest has presented Handel’s immortal oratorio Messiah every Christmas since 1941, and this will be our 78th year. These breathtaking performances feature the 400-voice Combined Churches Choir, the world-renowned Grand Organ of Sydney Town Hall and Orchestra. ARTISTS Tim…
Darkness and Light – Canberra Choral Society
Mozart Requiem Haydn Nelson Mass With Graham Abbott at Llewellyn Hall
MOZART, REQUIEM – Opéra de Rouen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Meistermusik (with men’s choir) Requiem Two funeral but luminous musical works: Mozart’s Requiem and its Masonic counterpart, the Meistermusik. No, Salieri did not order a requiem to Mozart! If this legend, beautifully used by Milos Forman in…
REQUIEM / YOANN BOURGEOIS – Insula Orchestra, La Seine Musicale
FESTIVAL MOZART MAXIMUM REQUIEM / YOANN BOURGEOIS 1:10 without intermission PROGRAM WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Requiem (original fragments) Do you think you know Mozart’s Requiem by heart? Error ! Forget the versions completed by his student Süssmayr or others, place the…
St. John Passion – Insula Orchestra, La Seine Musicale
PASSION ACCORDING TO SAINT JOHN 1h50 without intermission Concert in German surtitled in french PROGRAM JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Johannes Passion Of the four passions by Bach written between 1724 and 1747 Vespers of Good Friday, only survived in their entirety…
Songs of the Traveller – HSBC Recital, Festival D’Aix-en-Provence
Ralph Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel What is preferable: love that is a source of sedentarity or loneliness conducive to wanderings? This is the main dilemma of the Vaughan Williams cycle, which in Schubert’s footsteps makes wandering a metaphor for…
Songs of the Traveller – HSBC Recital, Festival D’Aix-en-Provence
Ralph Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel What is preferable: love that is a source of sedentarity or loneliness conducive to wanderings? This is the main dilemma of the Vaughan Williams cycle, which in Schubert’s footsteps makes wandering a metaphor for…
Don Giovanni – West Australian Opera
Don Giovanni is a promiscuous nobleman, an anti-hero in the endless pursuit of pleasure. He flouts all of society’s rules and betrays without remorse. He outrages those around him leaving despair and ruin in his wake. Eventually he pays the ultimate…
Parsifal – Opernhaus Zürich
Parsifal Bühnenweihfestspiel in drei Aufzügen von Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Libretto vom Komponisten Musikalische Leitung Simone Young Inszenierung Claus Guth Ausstattung Christian Schmidt Musikalische Assistenz Finnegan Downie Dear Choreinstudierung Ernst Raffelsberger, Janko Kastelic Lichtgestaltung Jürgen Hoffmann Video-Design Andi A. Müller Choreografie…
