Alcons Hits the High Notes Again in The Joan
Australia – N amed after Australia’s famous coloratura soprano, Dame Joan Sutherland, the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in Penrith, New South Wales, is one of Sydney’s busiest performing arts complexes.
Opened in 1990, the venue has numerous performance spaces, and hosts a busy schedule of theatrical, musical and visual arts. Already mid-2019, production and technical manager Geoff Turner and head of audio Tim Anikin started looking for replacement of the old point source sound system that had served the dramatic theatre (The Q Theatre) from the beginning, to overcome the sound issues inherent in the space.
New book chronicles life of world-famous Grimsby singer Norma Procter
Author Lucy Wood says the book marks the first time Norma s life and career has been documented in its entirety
13:48, 14 FEB 2021
Norma Procter performing at a Fish Trades Concert. Her life and career is chronicled in a new book by local author Lucy Wood (Image: Submitted)
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12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents
Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the
Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels to learn excerpts of the work; Dance for PD classes appropriate for anyone with mobility concerns. View here and on demand for one week.
2 pm ET: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester presents
Gilbert conducts Prokofiev. Daniil Trifonov joins Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto under the leadership of Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert who also leads the orchestra in an account of the composer’s
Classical Symphony. View here.
2 pm ET: The Royal Opera House presents
Puccini’s
Il Trittico.
Il Tabarro, set aboard a barge on the Seine, stars Lucio Gallo as Michele, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Giorgetta, and Aleksandrs Antonenko as Luigi.
Suor Angelica has Ermonela Jaho in the title role of the nun whose familial sacrifice is at the heart of the opera.
Tributes have been paid to Cara O Sullivan, one of Ireland s greatest opera singers, who has died after a long illness.
Ms O Sullivan (59) was diagnosed with early onset dementia in 2018, and the illness brought a premature end to a glittering career which had seen the Cork coloratura soprano star perform at the Paris Opera, the Royal Albert Hall and Sydney Opera House.
She was diagnosed with the degenerative condition three years ago, having survived a cancer diagnosis when she was just 34 years old.
Her early onset dementia was diagnosed three years ago after she noted something was a little bit off with her memory.