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Australia’s iconic venue has signed an official partnership with the Internet broadcasting giant.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy and Stuart Skelton on Tchaikovsky's supernatural riddle.
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November 2–3
Studio, Sydney Opera House
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Bang On A Can and Ensemble Offspring run amok with the wacky & wonderful Musicircus.
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New York composer David Lang talks punch-ups and prepared pianos.
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The complete Shostakovich string quartets among the 2013 Utzon Room offerings.
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John Cage Festival wants YOU to get involved in the composer's centenary celebrations.
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Emma Matthews sings the tour-de-force mad scene in this stark, shadowy new production.
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The long-serving chief executive steered the Opera through troubled times and transitions.
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Emma Matthews embodies the mad heroine with consummate skill (and buckets of blood).
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Jazz -
Melissa Lesnie -
Sep 13, 2012
The Steinway artist, a self-confessed "diva", skirted the piano at his Radio National interview.
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The legendary bel canto tenor introduced classical music to the masses. We salute him five years to the day he succumbed to cancer.
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The British pianist's two-year Schubert world tour is giving him new insights into the composer.
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Stage -
Melissa Lesnie -
Aug 28, 2012
Contemporary Women showcases four female choreographers at the fore of Australian dance.
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The winner of the 2012 Sydney International Piano Competition recounts his journey, round by gruelling round.
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The former chair of Belvoir Street Theatre is the first woman to take the reins at the Opera House.
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Brett Whiteley and Ken Done in a new exhibition of Australian works inspired by Utzon's masterpiece.
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Don't be fooled by the “Liberace of the organ”: there’s a very serious musician behind the glitzy facade.
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The Wagnerian soprano's hotly anticipated Australian debut has been cancelled.
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The American wunderkind teams with Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner for a song cycle with a difference.
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The festival teams the world’s hottest bands with orchestras and innovative composers.
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America's greatest living composer works with Aussie musos in the Sydney Opera House's Utzon Room.
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The conductor of England's greatest Baroque choir explains why they'd be lynched if they performed Allegri's Miserere as it was written.
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My personal selection of the hottest tickets for opera-lovers around Australia.
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Classical Music -
Jan 9, 2012
Mozart's The Magic Flute gets a new lease of life in the hands of director Julie Taymor (The Lion King), whose accessible production has already enchanted audiences at The Met. Dazzling costumes, puppetry, English dialogue and a 100-minute run-time make Opera Australia's staging a magical performance for all the family.
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Fiona Campbell's Handel and Guy Noble's delightful comic song, complete with a surprise tap-dance solo.
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Meet the winner and finalists from the Limelight singing competition!
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Share the Sydney Opera House stage with Australia's most popular leading men.
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Wagner Tannhauser: Prelude and Venusberg Music
Sculthorpe Earth Cry
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6
Sydney Opera House, August 26
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Australia’s cultural icon has the worst acoustics of all the country’s major classical music venues.
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Cheryl Barker and Jose Carbo unveil the new opera season in style.
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The American soprano tells us why she relates so well to Mimì in Opera Australia's erotically charged new bohème.
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British Liaisons
The Australian Ballet
Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra / Nicolette Fraillon
Sydney Opera House May 4, 2011
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The programme of the year's most anticipated orchestral event has been revealed, but will Vienna surpass Berlin?
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Within less than a week, the Sydney Opera House YouTube extravaganza has become the most-watched live music concert on the Internet.
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Sacrificium
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano
Sergio Ciomei, piano
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
March 15, 2011
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Music director Christian Curnyn wants to show Australia a lighter side of Handel in bold, tragi-comic romp Partenope.
