MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE

by Stephi Wild - October 26, 2023

Arts Projects Australia have today announced Grammy Award winning, Brooklyn-based singer, composer and producer, Arooj Aftab’s Vulture Prince Australian Tour – for the artist’s first time in Australia – bringing her mesmerising live-performance experience to Sydney City Recital Hall, Melbourne Recit...

by Stephi Wild - June 05, 2023

Melbourne-born Vienna-trained composer-violinist Rupert Guenther returns to Melbourne and embarks on the world premiere tour of his newest sonata of evocative improvisations “New Letters To Esterhazy” at Melbourne Recital Centre on Wednesday 26 July at 7 pm....

by A.A. Cristi - May 01, 2023

The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) is set to take audiences on an imaginative and moving musical journey with their upcoming national tour of Utopias between 10-22 May....

by Stephi Wild - December 08, 2022

Zelman Symphony, with Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Rick Prakhoff, is one of the most successful community orchestras in the country. For its 90th anniversary season in 2023, the orchestra presents a mouth-watering program spanning the eras of Classical, Romantic, 20th Century and contem...

by Stephi Wild - November 16, 2022

Musica Viva Australia (MVA) has announced the 14 selected ensembles for the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (MICMC), which will be held live in Melbourne next year from 3rd to 9th July, bringing some of the world’s most outstanding young chamber musicians to Australia....

by Stephi Wild - September 15, 2022

Distinguished international maestro Anthony Negus has arrived from the UK to conduct Wagner's Siegfried in Concert at the Melbourne Recital Centre, on 25 September. Siegfried is the third opera in Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, one of the biggest productions in all the performing arts and the greatest...

by Stephi Wild - August 17, 2022

Australian Contemporary Opera Co (ACOCo) and Melbourne Recital Centre present a one-night only double-bill of powerful works by two visionary American composers: the Australian premiere of David Lang’s The Loser and Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s To Hell and Back. Acclaimed for their emotional punch,...

by Stephi Wild - July 19, 2022

Melbourne Opera is staging the Gaetano Donizetti bel canto masterpiece Australian audiences fell for 45 years ago when Dame Joan Sutherland performed the title role. It has not been performed in Melbourne for over 30 years....

by Stephi Wild - June 01, 2022

RISING, a festival three years in the making, has opened today. Victoria's newest major event commences its first uninterrupted, full program of music, art, performance and ceremony that will reawaken and reconnect the city to the world, inviting audiences to get lost, go deep and shake loose....

by Marissa Tomeo - February 13, 2022

The Ring Cycle includes four epic operas totalling 17 hours of performance time, and is known to be the greatest challenge for any opera company, as the most impressive and opulent event in the history of the artform. ...