Past Shows
Mozart's Last Symphonies with Richard Tognetti
Oct 4 – Oct 6, 2015
Richard Tognetti leads the ACO in an all-Mozart program, featuring the composer's last 3 symphonies composed in a surge of inspiration between June and August...
Messiah
Dec 14 – Dec 15, 2013
By the time of Handel’s death 17 years later it had become his most frequently performed oratorio and is now the most popular sacred work...
Dvorák’s New World
Dec 5 – Dec 7, 2013
To render this concert an absolute must, Christian Tetzlaff, who makes music ‘live, breathe and sing with a directness few can equal today’ (The Guardian),...
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Nov 17 – Nov 18, 2013
Martin Fröst's is probably the greatest clarinettist in the world, but more than that, he's a marvellous communicator and fantastic to watch. Astonishingly, he can...
Victorian Opera: Stars of Tomorrow
Nov 18
Join seven exciting young talents, Carlos E. Bárcenas, Kirilie Blythman, Olivia Cranwell, Christine Heald, Jeremy Kleeman, Timothy Reynolds and Daniel Todd on an unforgettable operatic...
Russian Masterpieces
Nov 14 – Nov 16, 2013
As big, bold and beautiful as his ballet music for Gayaneh and Spartacus, Khatchaturian’s Violin Concerto is a powerhouse concerto tailor-made for the sublimely talented...
Brahms 4 & Steven Isserlis
Oct 20 – Oct 21, 2013
The Fourth is Brahms' final powerful symphonic statement. Here, Brahms takes flight, as he melds the soaring sounds of Romanticism to classical structure in a...
All-Beethoven Program
Sep 27 – Sep 30, 2013
This absorbing musical journey through Beethoven’s heroic decade culminates in his mighty Emperor concerto, featuring one of the leading pianists of our time....
David Hobson in Concert
Sep 23
Accompanied by David Cameron on the piano, David will perform a repertoire from classical favourites to contemporary hits. Winning numerous awards including Operatic Performer of...
Elgar’s Enigma Variations
Sep 14
This program is made all the more unmissable by the inclusion of Mozart’s regal concerto....
Verdi’s Requiem
Sep 6 – Sep 9, 2013
This panorama of human hopes and fears features an outstanding international cast conducted by Sir Andrew Davis....
Adams Conducts Adams
Aug 29 – Aug 31, 2013
Adams conducts the Australian premiere of his jazz-based meditation on the Los Angeles of The Big Sleep and Double Indemnity, City Noir....
The Rite Stuff: The Rite of Spring
Aug 13
It was a landmark in the history of modern music and the birth of a masterpiece, or The Rite of Spring sounds as blazingly alive...
The Rite Stuff: Petrushka
Aug 10
...Stravinsky said of the work that would become one of his greatest successes, the ballet of the puppet-with-a-soul and his fantastic adventures, rendered in vivid...
The Rite Stuff: The Firebird
Aug 7
Stravinsky’s affection for Tchaikovsky’s music is made manifest throughout the Festival; in this opening program, the sublime Latvian violinist Baiba Skride is soloist in one...
Australian Youth Orchestra with Christoph Eschenbach and Joshua Bell
Aug 5
Internationally renowned violinist Joshua Bell performs Tchaikovsky’s exquisite Violin Concerto. Bell calls the piece “the most intimate, elegant, almost balletic warhorse I know!” His talents...
Simone Young Conducts Mahler 5
Jul 27 – Jul 29, 2013
In this rare MSO appearance, Simone Young also conducts the Australian premiere of Brett Dean’s new work, based on the life and teachings of Socrates....
Barefoot Fiddler
Jul 21 – Jul 22, 2013
A free spirit who approaches music with an unquenchable sense of fun and discovery, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a joy to play with and watch....
The Passion Of Tristan And Isolde
Jul 18 – Jul 19, 2013
To celebrate his bicentenary, the MSO presents an orchestral passion on Wagner’s masterpiece of love and death, Tristan and Isolde....
Rachmaninov and Elgar
Jun 29
Here this deeply human masterwork comes to life under one its greatest interpreters. Rachmaninov’s Concerto has all the poetry and melodic beauty audiences love in...
ACO2
Jun 23 – Jun 24, 2013
ACO2, the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s precocious little sister, brings together Australia’s finest young string players and ACO musicians, creating a combined ensemble with a fresh,...
Night On Bald Mountain
Jun 15 – Jun 17, 2013
From the soulful Prelude to Mussorgsky’s opera to the gleaming conclusion of Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy, this journey through the world of Russian music is...
Anh Do The Happiest Refugee Live
Jun 15
Anh Do’s bestselling book The Happiest Refugee has made readers laugh and cry, and was described by Russell Crowe as “the most surprising and inspiring...
Appalachian Spring
Jun 6 – Jun 7, 2013
Appalachian Spring defines the American spirit in music, and includes Copland’s sublime setting of the Shaker theme Simple Gifts. Stravinsky’s suite from The Firebird is...
Bach and Schubert Masterpieces
May 18
This masterwork is contrasted here with a beautifully crafted tribute to Bach’s genius, in which radiant young American pianist Simone Dinnerstein pairs his keyboard concertos...
Barry Humphries with the ACO and Meow Meow
May 5 – May 6, 2013
Transgressive cabaret sensation Meow Meow joins us for the racier numbers, including a duet with Humphries. An aficionado of the art and music of this...
Thus Spake Zarathustra
May 2
Don’t miss one of the world’s great conductors, Sir Andrew Davis, direct Richard Strauss’ orchestral masterpiece....
OperaMania
Apr 19 – Apr 20, 2013
With a wonderful selection of music by the world’s most celebrated composers including Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Mozart, and Johann Strauss, Novaya Opera will take you on...
Tempests
Apr 15
This thrilling journey through musical tempests – of the man-made kind (as in Britten’s song cycle Our Hunting Fathers) or the or the kind that...
Sarah Chang and Tchaikovsky
Mar 23 – Mar 25, 2013
Music by another supreme melodist, Tchaikovsky, opens and closes the program: the colour and spectacle of the 1812 Overture, and the turbulent passion of the...
Red Bull Flying Bach: Classical meets Breakdance
Mar 13 – Mar 16, 2013
Witness this unique clash of cultures as Red Bull Flying Bach hits Australian shores for the first time. Watch Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier come...
Mozart’s Requiem
Mar 7 – Mar 9, 2013
The magisterial Prelude to Wagner’s only comedy precedes the powerful melodies and pulsating rhythms of Bartók’s showpiece....
The Reef
Feb 24 – Feb 25, 2013
n May, when the surf is at its best, Richard Tognetti took a crew of surfers, musicians and film makers to Ningaloo Reef, where the...
Gala Concert
Feb 23
Having performed at the Royal Opera House in London, the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Lisa makes her triumphant return...
BLAZE The Show
Jan 23 – Jan 27, 2013
A collective of pure talent; BLAZE is the show that brings the raw energy of street and break dance together with some of the most...
The Sleeping Beauty
Dec 11 – Dec 12, 2012
Following the success of Christine Walsh’s production of The Sleeping Beauty in 2008, The Australian Conservatoire of Ballet is proud to once again present this...
Beethoven No. 9 Ode to Joy - Australian Chamber Orchestra
Aug 13
Beethoven's famous Symphony No.9, Ode to Joy, requires the biggest orchestra the ACO has ever assembled, plus one of the best British choirs and a...
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