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Arts Centre Melbourne's Hamer Hall

100 St Kilda Road
Melbourne

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Past Shows

Joseph Calleja - The Maltese Tenor

Joseph Calleja - The Maltese Tenor

Oct 31

Joseph Calleja, the Maltese born singer described as the young Pavarotti, will thrill audiences at Melbourne's Hamer Hall in his eagerly anticipated debut Australian tour.Calleja...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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