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Special Concert Performance
The exquisite soprano line soars with elegiac loveliness over the rich orchestral sound of Strauss’s Four Last Songs. At last, an opportunity to hear the glorious voice of Cheryl Barker in these transcendent duets for orchestra and singer.
Welcome to a very special night of the year, the night when Australia’s most versatile orchestra steps out of the pit and into the limelight. The Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra are in the Opera Theatre for over 250 performances of opera and ballet each year but for this performance they will fill the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House with radiant sounds.
Cheryl Barker is the perfect partner for Strauss’s masterly final work, and soloists Rosamund Illing, Milijana Nikolic, Rosaria La Spina and John Wegner join the Opera Australia Chorus in Rossini’s wonderfully theatrical Stabat Mater. Respighi’s vivid tone poem, The Pines of Rome, completes an evening of vocal and orchestral brilliance.