After two years of renewal works, the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House is finally ready to reopen.
This live broadcast sees the Sydney Symphony Orchestra return to its home for a gala performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony, under the direction of their new Chief Conductor, Australian-born, internationally acclaimed Simone Young.
In a spectacle not to be missed, Mahler’s symphony, known as The Resurrection, brings together the 100 musicians of the Sydney Symphony with 190 members of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and an all-star cast including Australian Nicole Car (soprano) and Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano, US).
The performance also features a new work by renowned First Nations composer William Barton with the Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir and the Sydney Children’s Choir.
This historical moment marks the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s 90th anniversary and their return to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall – the iconic venue that it has called home since its opening in 1973.
Production credit: ABC TV Executive Producer, Janet Gaeta. ABC Classic Executive Producer, Matthew Dewey.
World Premiere – Sydney Symphony Orchestra Live Gala airs Thursday 21 July at 8.00pm on ABC and iview
The concert will also be broadcast live on ABC Classic and on the ABC listen app.
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs please, not Sydney Philharmonic. PS: this concert is well worth watching – the new acoustic is amazing!
Hi A Soprano – thanks for the fix up! 🙂
Thank you ABC for the wonderful musical performance at the Sydney Opera House.
Keep these performances coming as we miss out so much on fabulous fantastic classical music .
Congratulations to all involved.
We were there on Wednesday and it was amazing Then watched the broadcast last night – it was not the same performance – still amazing but now confused Were we in the audience for the very first public performance in the new hall
Last night had a different mezzo, mid performance applause and streamers None of that was there on Wednesday
Diana
I like the performance, ABC’s live broadcast has stopped for a fairly long time and I’m glad that after the renovations it has come up again, hopefully ABC would do it again like the 70th and early 80th of simulcast in both TV and ABC FM.
The acoustic is beautiful and Mahler’s 2 under Simon Young plays potently together with the acoustic, it’s magnificent.