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Priscilla Jackman. Photo: Phil Erbacher.
DREADFUL things happen to women in opera – they might be immured in a mausoleum, run though by a jealous lover or left to die in a sack, but nowhere is their fate sealed more grimly than in Béla Bartók’s only opera, “Bluebeard’s Castle”.
Not any more, as a new production of four performances only by Opera Australia is about to show.
“There’s no other way to see ‘Bluebeard’ but as a misogynistic work,” says associate director Priscilla Jackman, who joins director Andy Morton in staging the show for OA.
“But looked at in the light of day during 2021, it feels very timely.”
Entries are now open for the 2021 ABC Young Performers Awards, one of Australia’s most prestigious awards for young classical musicians.
The competition re-emerges from hiatus in a new online-only format to accommodate social distancing restrictions. Finals will be live-streamed on ABC Classic in November, 2021.
Roland Gridiger OAM, CEO of the Music & Opera Singers Trust (MOST) the body that took over management of the awards in 2016 says COVID-19 precautions have left many young musicians with few opportunities for performance and exposure.
“We decided that we should present a digital competition … to try to help those instrumentalists that have been confined to home, or haven’t had jobs, exposure, or haven’t had the chance to really take up their instruments and perform,” said Gridiger.
The Thrill of a Contemporary Classical Concert, Captured on Disc
With live performances still largely shut down, the group Klangforum Wien has released a five-album set of solos and premieres.
Members of Klangforum Wien at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 2019.Credit.Tina Herzl
By Seth Colter Walls
Feb. 17, 2021
It’s easy to focus on large institutions when bemoaning the loss of classical music in New York during the pandemic; their concerts were big-ticket items, planned (and planned for) far in advance. Yet the charm of cultural life in this city has often been found in evenings that came together on a shorter timeline, and at smaller venues.
Unable to play viola, Chris Moore communed with his chickens
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Christopher Moore, the bushy-bearded principal violist of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, lost several dozen concerts and several chamber music engagements last year.
Christopher Moore, principal viola at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Under lockdown, laid off (heâs sympathetic to managementâs lockdown dilemma) and reliant on JobKeeper, he tended his chickens and helped his two daughters cope with their distance education. âWeâve got quite a big backyard and the chickens just wander around,â he says. âIt makes the place feel alive.â