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23.01.2022 Ahead of Salome, which opens on Tuesday, here's a fabulous feature with Cheryl Barker about her other passion: perfume. Great photo too!
23.01.2022 Bachtrack's first ever podcast is all about Wagner and features David Karlin interviewing Stuart Skelton as well as a review of the Tokyo Grimes. You can also enter to win the Met Ring on DVD.
21.01.2022 Thanks to the eagle-eyed Ian M over at Bel Canto, we have some new information about the Melbourne Ring in 2013, confirmed by cast lists on the Ring website. Juha Uusitalo (Wotan) and Gary Lehman (Siegfried) have been replaced by two other renowned Wagnerians: Terje Stensvold and Stefan Vinke respectively. Let's hope both Lehman and Uusitalo are OK. As for their replacements, Vinke will of course be well known to Sydney audiences for his appearance earlier this year in as Paul in Tote Stadt (another monster of a role!) and Terje Stensvold is a Norwegian baritone with decades of distinguished performances under his belt - including Wotan/Wanderer in the Royal Opera Stockholm Ring. Check him out in excerpts from The Flying Dutchman below! (Along with some possible inspiration for a future Opera on the Harbour?)
19.01.2022 St Matthew Passion, La Cenerentola and Otello.
19.01.2022 A short news item on Japanese TV about Peter Grimes at the New National Theatre Tokyo. Some great snippets of singing even if you don't speak Japanese!
18.01.2022 Very cool 2013 season from Victorian Opera. Kudos for keeping things interesting, guys!
16.01.2022 For those who can get through the paywall: Mathew Westwood on HGO's withdrawal from the Ring co-production.
15.01.2022 Article from Zachary Woolfe about opera casting and cancellations.
12.01.2022 Sydney Philharmonia Choirs have launched their 2013 season! Highlights for opera lovers include Fiona Campbell in Purcell's Dido & Aeneas and a concert of opera excerpts by Verdi, Wagner and Britten (the three birthday boys!) starring Cheryl Barker and Stuart Skelton. The line-up for Messiah isn't too shabby either!
11.01.2022 Some very cool photos from Opera Australia's Salome, opening October 12.
11.01.2022 Big news of the day: Opera Australia's CEO Adrian Collette is to step down.
11.01.2022 If you're on Twitter, you may have already met this dedicated and passionate young opera fan. There's hope yet for the future of the art form!
10.01.2022 Family rivalry. Beheading. Incest. Suicide. Religion. Sex. Murder. Salome is everything you shouldn't talk about at a dinner party and more! These photos are fr...om Gale Edwards' new production of Strauss' Salome in 2012 (An Opera Conference Co-Production)! Find info and buy tickets online: http://bit.ly/PmQULq. See more
08.01.2022 More on Salome from Limelight Magazine.
07.01.2022 The Operative Word with Cheryl Barker.
07.01.2022 A hot tip for Strauss fans: iTunes currently has Solti's Strauss opera recordings for Decca - Arabella, Ariadne, Elektra, Frau ohne Schatten, Rosenkavalier, Salome PLUS Kiri singing the Four Last Songs and Renée singing the final scene from Daphne - for a grand total of AUD14.99. That's 226 tracks for less than 7 cents each.
06.01.2022 Great competition from Sydney Symphony!
05.01.2022 What is it with this family?! Amitai Pati, brother of last year's McDonald's Aria winner Pene Pati, has won NZ's Lexus Song Quest.
05.01.2022 Despite recent reports that their support might be in doubt, it seems HGO is still on board for the Ring - not to mention a wealth of other interesting works and new commissions.
03.01.2022 So incredibly sad to hear that the glorious Amanda Thane has passed away. She will be so, so missed. Our thoughts are with her family, friends and colleagues. Vale.
01.01.2022 Great news from NBR New Zealand Opera!
01.01.2022 "[Barker's] performance, combining impressive vocal clarity, power and stamina alongside theatrical persuasiveness, opens a new horizon of possibilities in the darker dramatic roles and was as compelling as anything she has done, right up to the lurid A-sharps of her consummating kiss."
