SSO CONCERT : RAVEL AND FALLA @ CONCERT HALL SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

 

Subtitled POSTCARDS FROM SPAIN, this concert was bursting with Iberian energy. Conductor Jaime Martín held together the hundred-strong orchestra, including harps, timpani and castanets, through the technically complex and emotionally charged compositions.

The opening was Alborada del gracioso,

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CARMEN | OPERA AUSTRALIA | PREMIER PRODUCTION

Carmen Directed by Anne-Louise Sarks, World Premier Production

Last night, Opera Australia launched their 2025 Winter season with a bang at Sydney Opera House. Georges Bizet’s Carmen is one of the most popular and most performed operas in the …

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LIZ PLAYER AT CHURCH STREET STUDIOS

This concert at Church Street Studios in Camperdown featured the young singer Liz Player, 21, the 2025 2MBS Jazz Artist in Residence. Still at the Sydney Conservatorium, studying for her Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance, she is perhaps best …

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NICKI PARROTT AT THE LOUNGE THE CONCOURSE

 

Two brilliant Australian jazz musicians who first met many years ago as teenagers in Newcastle, Nicki Parrott & Andrew Dickeson… Photo credit Brian Wittman

The last time I saw Nicki Parrott was 35 years ago in Sydney in

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