Valda wilson, caitlin hulcup and cantillation the plot is simple. Since its inception in 2002, pinchgut has presented 17 rarely performed gems. In a roundtable chat, mezzosoprano vivica genaux and artists of pinchgut discuss the weight of history in the australian premiere of hasses opera. Lust and madness, ambition and booze all take centre stage in a diverse and ambitious offering from pinchgut opera for its 2017 season. Simon rickard demonstrates the range of the new pinchgut. We are so pleased to make our audited reports available for the public to view each year. Pinchgut opera is a chamber opera company in sydney, australia, presenting opera from the.
Commissioned for our december 2016 production of handels theodora. The phantom of the opera 2004 yify download movie torrent. Fiddler on the roof a fidler afn dakh rembrandts wife. Pinchgut opera is a baroque opera company based in sydney, australia, dedicated to unearthing and polishing operatic and choral gems of the seventeenth and e. Begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the french opera house while tutoring a chorus girl. By alexandra mathew pinchgut operabach and telemannelisabeth murdoch hall, 6 april all saints day, 1755, lisbon. The creative team, led by artistic director dr erin helyard is driven by both musical excellence and academic rigour.
Pinchgut to draw a thread between the past and the present. Pinchgut opera infelice, chascolto from cavallis giasone. Pinchgut always performs in the intimate surroundings and wonderful acoustic of the city recital hall in sydney. Perhaps pinchgut opera s finest production to date, a brave presentation of a classic baroque opera, little heard in australia apart from handel, benefits from the star presence of vivca genaux in splendid form. Pinchgut opera is dedicated to breathing new life into musical masterpieces of the past. Pinchgut operas stages triple bill of baroque works. Other companies do the more familiar operas and early. Sydneys pinchgut opera triumphs in handels theodora. Pinchgut opera presents handels theodora at city recital. See who you know at pinchgut opera, leverage your professional network, and. Other companies do the more familiar operas and early music repertoire excellently. We scour the period from opera s birth to its flowering in the baroque to bring you the very best masterworks from this dazzling and fertile time in music history. Pinchgut has a special relationship with its audience and that is the cornerstone of its approach. Erin helyard, the sprightly and whipsmart artistic director of pinchgut opera, certainly has his priorities right.
Andrew collis bassbaritone, christopher lowrey countertenor, ed lyon tenor, valda wilson soprano, caitlin hulcup mezzosoprano, andrei laptev tenor, cantillation, erin helyard. Pinchgut opera season 2016 the culture concept circle. Pinchgut opera rediscovers operatic masterpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries. After presenting one opera year, in 2014 we doubled our output to two operas a year. Pinchgut to draw a thread between the past and the present in artaserse. Pinchgut opera celebrates the beauty and the breadth of emotions through music and the human voice. This new production is the best revival production by pinchgut opera yet. Pinchgut opera records and distributes live recordings of operas it produces through label pinchgutlive. Pinchgut opera is a chamber opera company in sydney, australia, presenting opera from the 17th and 18th centuries performed on period instruments. As a boy soprano he performed with most of the major orchestras in south africa including.
Historically informed and expertly curated for those who believe in the beauty of the human voice and the. Pinchgut opera begins its 2019 season at melbourne, april 6, at sydney, april 7, with the easter oratorio by j. Pinchgut arent just a worldbeating opera company, they are musical. Theodora begins with an ouverture in the french style in g minor and ends with a chorus in the same key, which is associated throughout the work with the christians and theodora herself, as is the restrained scoring for oboes and strings with telling use of a solo flute in theodoras prison scene in the music for the romans, however, handel adds the extra colours of trumpets, drums. Valens, president of fourthcentury antioch, commands all to sacrifice to jupiter. Quite a number of the very important musical masterpieces of the 18th century are not part of the canon of commonly performed works today. Pinchgut opera s stages triple bill of baroque works. Fort denison, part of the sydney harbour national park, is a protected national park that is a heritagelisted former penal site and defensive facility occupying a small island located northeast of the royal botanic gardens and approximately 1 kilometre 0. Stay up to date with all the news at pinchgut and subscribe to the pinchut post, read our past blogs here. Also the first time i had ever heard or even knew of countertenors.
For 2016 the sydney based pinchgut opera has announced its first subscriber season, presenting two operas armida. Innocence is no defence, both promising special event experiences and the best seat options for those who take up the offer of purchasing a subscription in advance for 2016 the pinchgut are tapping into a huge reservoir of work. This was my first pinchgut opera experience a bit different to oa but i quite enjoyed it. Rameaus dardanus has all the features of a great opera. Founded in 2002, pinchgut stages two operas each year in sydneys city recital hall the company utilises the professional chamber choir cantillation as its chorus and has engaged both the sirius ensemble and the orchestra of the antipodes. Pinchgut opera s 2018 season sees some very exciting and bold directions with an australian premiere production by 18th century master hasse, the companys melbourne debut and sensational casting. Listening to it in this superbly sung performance by sydneybased pinchgut opera you can see why, so its a pity that the whole is let down by a wellintentioned but clumsily staged production. Ive been working with pinchgut opera this week on their production of handels theodora at the city recital hall here in sydney. Pinchgut opera based in sydney has recently announced its 2018 season of early opera delights featuring the music of love and life, which reflects the classical maturity of our society a dynamic duo george friderich handels athalia and johann adolph hasses artaserse, will be sure to dazzle followers who enjoy the pinchgut s performances of rarely performed early music gems. Brenton spiteri and lauren lodgecampbell in pinchgut opera s ulysses. The opera may be 375 years old, but with its sex, murder and lust for power it feels as contemporary as the latest hbo hit. Soprano emma pearson more than rises to the challenge as the murderous queen, injecting the exposition. View information on all opera performances at the sydney opera house and the arts centre melbourne, using our simple and easy event calendar.
Vivaldis farnace is a masterpiece of 17th century opera, but has been largely forgotten. Innocence is no defence, both special experiences for its 1st subscriber season 2016. Our principal bassoonist simon rickard demonstrates the musical range of our newly acquired baroque contrabassoon. Playing 18 jul 24 aug 2019 at sydney opera house auwhatsonproductions2019thetorrents. Pinchgut opera giasone infelice, chascolto, miriam allan as isifile, david hansen as giasone, orchestra of the antipodes, erin helyard conductor. Tenor jacob lawrence was a confident stage and vocal presence as both giove and eumete, while tenor mark wilde displayed ample comic timing as iro, revealing a seemingly endless palette of. Pinchgut opera is the first australian company ever to win an. Hummel concerto in g major pinchgut opera ed lyon, jessica aszodi, celeste lazarenko, andrew goodwin, melissa farrow, stephen lalor orchestra of the antipodes, erin helyard 2017, flac tracks lossless web. Armida 1784 by joseph haydn in july 2016 followed by theodora by g. The award was for pinchgut opera s production of hasses artaserse, performed in sydney last december. Pinchgut opera took home the award for best rediscovered work at the 2019 international opera awards held last night in london.
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