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Pinchgut Opera

Locality: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9318 8344

Address: 480 Elizabeth St 2010 Surry Hills, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.pinchgutopera.com.au

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25.01.2022 The countdown is on, don't miss Pinchgut Opera's Handel in Italy live streamed from the ABC studio on Saturday, 05 September at 1pm - only 1 day to go! You can view the concert live on YouTube, Facebook and via the ABC Classic website. #livestreaming #PinchgutOpera #baroqueextravaganza #liveconcert #Handel #baroquemusic #countdown #baroque #classicalmusic #performance

25.01.2022 SAVE THE DATES FOR 2021! We are excited to announce Pinchgut Opera's performance dates throughout 2021, so you can plan to come and see our 20th season next year. For more info visit our website:

24.01.2022 A spirited, sparkling little piece by Thomas Arne for your Sunday

24.01.2022 We're delighted to share with you a short documentary that takes you behind the scenes of our new film, A Delicate Fire. In this 10-minute video, Erin is joined by members of the creative team and some of our artists to explain how this exciting project came about, what it has meant for them and why they were so inspired by the extraordinary Barbara Strozzi. A Delicate Fire premieres on 29 October 2020!!!... #ADelicateFire #PinchgutOpera #BarbaraStrozzi #OperaFilm #OperaSinger

22.01.2022 Where do you start when making an opera film? With socially-distanced recordings, of course! Here are some of our fantastic singers and players recording the music for the movie, A Delicate Fire, at City Recital Hall. With... Anna Dowsley - Mezzo soprano Taryn Fiebig - Opera Australia Principal Soprano Chloe Lankshear - Soprano Keara Donohoe - Mezzo David Greco - Baritone Nicholas Jones - Tenor Andrew O'Connor Bass Simon Martyn-Ellis - Theorbo and Baroque Guitar Hannah Lane - Baroque Harp Anthea Cottee - Cello, Viola da Gamba and Lirone Matthew Greco - Violin Karina Schmitz - Violin Erin Helyard - Musical Director, Conductor and Keyboards A Delicate Fire premiers 29 October 2020, be sure to mark the date in your calendar. #ADelicateFire #PinchgutOpera #BarbaraStrozzi #OperaFilm #OperaSinger

17.01.2022 It's Throwback Thursday and since we just can't get enough of the fabulous Sara Macliver, here she is performing in our 2015 performance of Vivaldi's Bajazet. Enjoy this exquisitely beautiful aria from the first act of the opera. #TBT #aria #PinchgutOpera #baroqueopera #baroque #ClassicalMusic #operasinger #operaperformance #opera #soprano #Vivaldi #Bajazet Sara Bevan

17.01.2022 Have you ever heard the sound of a baroque musette? Messe de Minuit will feature the beautiful sound of this rare and delightful little bundle of joy, traditionally heard at Christmas time in France. Played by specialist Simon Rickard, these small French bagpipes have never before been heard in Australia; until now. Please enjoy this sneak peek! ... https://www.pinchgutopera.com.au/charpentiers-messe-de-minu

17.01.2022 What really happens behind the scenes of a movie: until they call action, we wait! #ADelicateFire #PinchgutOpera #BehindtheScenes #MovieSet #MovieMaking Photos by Brett Boardman

17.01.2022 Take a sneak peek behind the scenes of our #ADelicateFire movie set and get an idea of how the magic happens! #PinchgutOpera #BehindtheScenes #MovieSet #MovieMaking... Photos by Brett Boardman

15.01.2022 Take a break and tune in to Pinchgut’s glistening and sensual opera film, A Delicate Fire. Available to watch online now. https://athome.pinchgutopera.com.au/ Photo credit: Brett Boardman

14.01.2022 If you're yet to watch A Delicate Fire, perhaps tonight's the night! Sit back and enjoy the sumptuous sounds of the great Barbara Strozzi brought to life on screen in Pinchgut's first opera film. This just might be the best hour you've spent all week! https://www.pinchgutopera.com.au #adelicatefire #pinchgutopera #barbarastrozzi #operafilm

14.01.2022 We're delighted to share with you a selection of images that take you behind the scenes of our new film, A Delicate Fire - from recording the audio to actually shooting the movie. Enjoy this exclusive look #behindthescenes and find out what happens on set, before the director calls action. Cast and Creatives: Erin Helyard - Musical Director, Conductor and Keyboards... Constantine Costi - Director Charlotte Mungomery - Production Designer Dimitri Zaunders - Director of Photography Shannon Burns - Choreographer Performers: Anna Dowsley - Mezzo soprano Taryn Fiebig - Opera Australia Principal Soprano Chloe Lankshear - Soprano Keara Donohoe - Mezzo soprano Nick Angwin-Jones - Tenor David Greco - Baritone Andrew O’Connor - Bass Simon Martyn-Ellis - Theorbo and Baroque Guitar Hannah Lane - Baroque Harp Anthea Cottee - Cello, Viola da Gamba and Lirone Matthew Greco - Violin Karina Schmitz - Violin Allie Graham - Dancer Neale Whittaker - Dancer #ADelicateFire #PinchgutOpera #BehindtheScenes #MovieSet #MovieMaking

14.01.2022 To all aspiring young musician: Applications for the Australian Youth Orchestra’s 2021 instrumental programs are now open, with specialised training opportunities on offer. Head to their website to discover more and apply!

13.01.2022 Pinchgut Opera performs Charpentier's Messe de Minuit live at City Recital Hall, 5 & 6 December. Join us! You are sure to experience something truly special with this enchanting music

13.01.2022 Tune in to ABC Classic Saturday Baroque on the 28th to listen to the entire soundtrack from, A Delicate Fire. What a treat to hear the sumptuous music of Barbara Strozzi, featuring the talents of Pinchgut Opera on the radio. Not to be missed! https://www.abc.net.au/classic/programs/saturday-baroque/

12.01.2022 Pinchgut Opera is performing Handel in Italy live, as part of ABC Classic's baroque-fest on Saturday, 05 September 2020 at 1pm. Artistic Director, Erin Helyard, has curated a selection of musical pieces written by a youthful Handel during his time studying in Italy. Erin will be performing alongside Taryn Fiebig - Opera Australia Principal Soprano, Matthew Greco, Rafael Font Viera, Karina Schmitz, Anthea Cottee and Simon Martyn-Ellis. The concert will be broadcast live on radio and live streamed on the ABC Classic website, YouTube channel and Facebook page, so be sure to mark the day in your calendar.

12.01.2022 We've done it again, the next episode of our podcast series, Baroque Banter - The Love Duet, is out now. In this episode, Erin Helyard discusses the love duet in baroque opera and the intense emotions it helps to convey - from blissful love to total despair. Erin delves deep into the subject matter and explains the function and evolution of one of opera’s most evocative and transcendent conventions. Tune in now to enjoy Erin’s insights into the love duet and revel in a select...ion of baroque’s most amazing duets, performed by Pinchgut Opera. #podcast #PinchgutOpera #BaroqueBanter #baroquemusic #musichistory #ClassicalMusic #baroqueopera #operaperformance #singers #performers #operasingers #duets #love #loveanddespair Image: Jake Arditti - Countertenor and Helen Sherman Mezzo-soprano in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea.

11.01.2022 A big congratulations to Erin Helyard and Richard Tognetti on winning the AIR Award for Best Independent Classical Album last night! Richard and I are thrilled to have been awarded Best Independent Classical Album for 2020 for our ABC Classic release. We conceived the album as a kind of history of the violin sonata, which, like most chamber music, is rooted in the mating rituals of the eighteenth-century middle class. Violin sonatas started out as part of courtship activiti...es, with the experienced female keyboardist being accompanied by her much less talented male violinist. Things began to change in the 1790s. Courtship rituals became less centered on female accomplishments and this encouraged composers to start treating the violin sonata as a real duo. And the (quite literally) revolutionary nature of the Paris conservatoire encouraged musical education for both sexes. The disc explores sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven and contemporaries. Along the way we perform works written for and by women (Mozart’s 1784 B-flat sonata was written for the exceptional violinist Regina Strinasacchi, and I play a set of variations by Josepha Auernhammer, Mozart’s pupil) as well as the Kreutzer itself: originally dedicated by Beethoven to the black violinist George Bridgetower. - Erin Helyard

11.01.2022 In case you missed Pinchgut Opera's live streamed performance of Handel in Italy last Saturday, or simply would like to have the pleasure of viewing it again, the concert recording is available for you to view and listen to online - at your leisure - on the ABC Classic website. View it here:

09.01.2022 It’s been a long twelve months, but we are just one week away from returning to live performance at City Recital Hall, Sydney. There will be music, joy, festivities, and bagpipes. What more could you ask for? Please join us, we can’t wait to see you....

08.01.2022 A Delicate Fire is a sumptuous musical experience that celebrates the joys, vicissitudes, and triumphs of love and pays homage to one of the greatest composers of the seventeenth century. The film premieres 29 October 2020 and will be available to stream for $30 from 29 October - 13 December 2020!!! Find out more on our website and add the date to your calendar:... #ADelicateFire #PinchgutOpera #BarbaraStrozzi #OperaFilm #OperaSinger

08.01.2022 Cellist Anthony Albrecht isn't going to let quarantine stop him from making beautiful music. He'll be live streaming Bach in Quarantine from his room tomorrow afternoon. Be sure not to miss it: Bach in Quarantine Anthony Albrecht | cello... Live from the Sheraton Grand, Sydney 3pm EST, Saturday the 29th of August See more

07.01.2022 The entire series of Seconda Prattica: the birth of opera has been released, and with the final episode out, you can now enjoy watching the whole series in one on YouTube. Erin and the director, Constantine Costi, designed the four episodes to be seen together, as well as individually, so don't miss out on the opportunity to enjoy them all in the order of their release: #SecondaPrattica #PinchgutOpera #OperaFilm #MusicFilm #Baroque #BaroqueOpera #Composer #FilmMusic #ShortFilm #Series

07.01.2022 You may have seen harpist, Hannah Lane in #ADelicateFire, but she will join soprano soprano Roberta Diamond at The Song Company's Close-up recital. Let them take you on a journey of sound, emotions and Mediterranean culture in a mesmerising program of songs originating from the Iberian peninsula. Esperar, Sentir, Morir - Saturday, 14 November at 2pm Cell Block Theatre at the National Art School in Darlinghurst.... Tickets are available on https://the.song.company

06.01.2022 Pinchgut's performance of Handel in Italy for ABC Classic is now on iView. Relive the splendor, or experience it for the first time! Click the link. Taryn Fiebig - Opera Australia Principal Soprano Matthew Greco Rafael Font Viera Karina Schmitz Anthea Cottee Simon Martyn-Ellis https://iview.abc.net.au/show/pinchgut-opera-handel-in-italy

06.01.2022 Barbara Strozzi published 125 pieces of vocal music under her own name in her lifetime, and is hailed as one of the most prolific and important composers of cantatas and baroque secular music in Venice of the 17th century. Born into the powerful and influential Strozzi family, Barbara Strozzi was singing at private parties as a young woman, and developed a reputation as one of the best singers of the times. Using these experiences and texts in her compositions in ways not see...n before, she was able to bring an emotional sensitivity to her works that made the listener feel the emotion of the words in their souls. Watch A Delicate Fire via Pinchgut at Home and experience the music of one of the finest baroque composers ever to have lived. https://www.pinchgutopera.com.au/

05.01.2022 Many of you would recognise the wonderful Laura Vaughan, Nick Pollock and Donald Nicolson from their appearances with the Orchestra of the Antipodes. Our friends Latitude 37 are performing a gorgeous programme of 17th century music tomorrow through Melbourne Digital Concert Hall; streamed live to your living room anywhere in the world. With racy and rowdy dances, suave melodies and sophisticated musings on madrigals and the exotic timbres of theorbo, lirone, viola de gamba a...nd harpsichord. Head over to Melbourne Digital Concert Hall to book tickets for an evening of music from Spain and Italy. What could be a more perfect accompaniment to your Thursday night pasta or paella? https://melbournedigitalconcerthall.com/laura-vaughan-dona/

05.01.2022 We’re back! It has been 12 long months since Pinchgut Opera performed live for our audience, and we can’t wait to see you back at City Recital Hall as we present Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit. Written in 1694 for Christmas Eve midnight mass and based on 12 traditional French carols, you are sure to experience something truly special with this beautiful program of French baroque music. Messe de Minuit will also be available to watch at home as a digital concert.... For more information visit: https://www.pinchgutopera.com.au/charpentiers-messe-de-minu

03.01.2022 Congratulations to Pinchgut Opera Artistic Director Erin Helyard for not just one @aria_official awards nominations, but two! He is nominated alongside David Greco for the album Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin and alongside Richard Tognetti for the album Beethoven & Mozart Violin Sonatas. Congrats to all nominees!!

02.01.2022 Here's the ultimate last-minute Father's Day gift idea: tune in to ABC Classic Lunchtime Concert today and treat dad to a Pinchgut Opera concert with the incomparable Vivica Genaux! The four-time Grammy-nominated mezzo-soprano performed an unforgettable concert of Handel, Hasse, Vivaldi and other baroque contemporaries for Pinchgut Opera in 2018. What better way to spend an afternoon? Tune in to ABC Classic from 1pm-3pm and enjoy baroque music at its best. ... #concert #recording #PinchgutOpera #baroque #classicalmusic #baroquemusic #VivicaGenaux #tunein

02.01.2022 We are thrilled to present the final episode of our Seconda Prattica series, featuring Barbara Strozzi’s Consiglio amoroso and Godere in gioventù. Strozzi’s gifts as a composer are on display in this final instalment where her thoughtfully crafted musical setting brilliantly conveys the emotion of the text. Enjoy the final episode of our short film series.... With Anna Dowsley - Mezzo-Soprano Taryn Fiebig - Opera Australia Principal Soprano David Greco - Baritone Chloe Lankshear - Soprano Erin Helyard - Harpsichord, Chamber Organ Simon Martyn-Ellis - Theorbo Constantine Costi - Director

02.01.2022 When worlds collide...old meets new when performers pull out their smart phones while in period costumes. #ADelicateFire #PinchgutOpera #BehindtheScenes #MovieSet #moviemaking Photos by Brett Boardman

01.01.2022 Erin Helyard and Richard Tognetti have won Best Classical Album at the 2020 ARIA awards for their album of Beethoven and Mozart violin sonatas! In this video Erin gives us exclusive insights into the recordings. Australian Chamber Orchestra ABC Classic ARIA