Praised for the remarkable agility, precision and warmth of her voice, Sumi Jo has established herself as one of her generation’s most sought-after coloratura sopranos. With more than 50 recordings to her credit, including ten solo albums, and multiple opera, oratorio and orchestral recordings, and her Grammy-winning Die Frau ohne Schatten with Sir Georg Solti, Sumi Jo is one of the world’s most prolific opera singers.

Born in Seoul, South Korea and now living in Rome, Italy, Sumi Jo has performed in title roles with the world’s most acclaimed opera companies including New York’s Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Vienna State Opera debut, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, Opéra National de Paris, Washington Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Opera Australia.

Sumi Jo has also performed with the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and under such conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Kent Nagano, and Richard Bonynge.

The inspiration for the Acadamy-award winning movie Shine, Helfgott is one of Australia’s most prolific and treasured musicians. He has toured more than 37 countries to world acclaim and enchanted audiences in some of the world’s major concert halls with major orchestras.

Sydney & Melbourne

RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 3

MENDELSSON
Andante and Rondo Capriccioso Op 14

KATCHATURIAN
Toccata in E flat minor

BEETHOVEN
Sonata Op. 57 The Appasionata

With The Metropolitan Orchestra (Sydney) &
Australian Concert Orchestra (Melbourne)
Sarah-Grace Williams, Conductor

Brisbane

RACHMANINOV
Prelude in G# minor
Prelude in G major
Prelude in G minor

BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonata (Op. 57), “Appassionata”

LISZT
Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
Concert Etude No.3, “Un sospiro”
Paganini Etude No.3, “La Campanella”
Apres une Lecture de Dante Fantasia quasi Sonata

Bringing to life twenty-three of Charles Dickens’ most affecting and colourful female (and male!) characters, Margolyes presents her powerful, comprehensive, and at times hilarious exposé of Dickens, his writing, and the real-life women who found themselves immortalised in his books.

This strictly limited season is part of the worldwide celebrations of 200 years of Charles Dickens in 2012. Don’t miss your chance to see this acclaimed actor in the roles she was born to play.

PRESENTED BY
Andrew McKinnon & AMcK Fine Entertainment
in association with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd
and Peter Wilson Productions

WRITTEN & ADAPTED BY
Miriam Margolyes and Sonia Fraser

DIRECTED BY
Sonia Fraser

PERFORMED BY
Miriam Margolyes
with John Martin on Piano

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY
Mark Hammer

Teddy Tahu Rhodes is now one of the most sought after bass baritones in the world, with his performance as The Toreador in Bizet’s “Carmen” at The Metropolitan Opera in New York hailed as a triumph. Both these singers are able to cross easily into other musical genres, and audiences and critics alike were hugely impressed by the versatility they displayed during the 2009 tour.

On the 2011 Australian tour, David Hobson and Teddy Tahu Rhodes will again perform with Australia’s leading accompanist, Sharolyn Kimmorley.

Win

Thanks to ABC Classic, we are giving one lucky person the chance to win the complete CD collections of David Hobson and Teddy Tahu Rhodes, including the new Best of David Hobson and Best of Teddy Tahu Rhodes.

To enter simply suggest a duet you’d like to hear David and Teddy sing. The most original suggestion wins.

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The Vienna Boys Choir returns to Australia for a very special national tour, including the premiere of a new work by composer Elena Kats-Chernin.

For more than 500 years the Vienna Boys Choir (or Wiener Sängerknaben) has been an enduring symbol of Europe, having worked with composers such as Fux, Salieri, Haydn and Bruckner and conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Sir George Solti.

The choir is one of the world’s most active musical ensembles and performs over 300 concerts a year. While providing the music for the Sunday Mass in Vienna’s Imperial Chapel – which they have done since 1498! – the choir also tours internationally, performing each year in some of the world’s finest concert halls.

For the first time, the choir will premiere a specially commissioned work by an Australian composer, with Elena Kats-Chernin’s evocative new vocal setting of the much-loved Australian poem, My Country by Dorothea Mackellar.

The tour program also includes an inspiring selection of the choir’s own repertoire, including pieces from Renaissance to Modern and of course the beautiful Viennese favourites of Johann and Josef Strauss.

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Programme

Beethoven – Sonata No 14 Moonlight Op 27-2
Chopin – Fantasy Impromptu Op 66
Chopin – 2 Nocturnes Op 48
Chopin – Scherzo No 1 in B minor
Rachmaninov – Moments Musicaux
Prokofiev – Sonata No 7 Op 83