Organization

Conductor

Jaime Martín

Chorus master

Warren Trevelyan Jones

Singer

Soprano

Kathryn Radcliffe

Tenor

Andrew Goodwin

Baritone

Christopher Tonkin

William Barton

Yidaki

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

MSO Chorus

Young Voices of Melbourne

Ryman Healthcare Winter Gala: Carmina Burana

Southbank

Australia

Arts Centre Melbourne

Hamer Hall

Ryman Healthcare Winter Gala: Carmina Burana: Don Juan, op. 20 Strauss (+2 More)

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Don Juan, op. 20

Earth Cry

Carmina Burana

Approved

Under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín, this year’s Winter Gala brings together a stellar ensemble of vocal soloists and the MSO Chorus for the thundering Carmina Burana. Queensland’s 2023 Australian of the Year – the extraordinary yidaki (didgeridoo) virtuoso William Barton – performs Peter Sculthorpe's evocative Earth Cry.

- The steamy Spanish legend of Don Juan has seduced many an artist and composer since the renaissance. Rumour has it that the content of this orchestral tone poem – as disapproving letters to Strauss from his father would suggest – also draws on insight from the composer’s lived experience of scandalous behaviour.

- Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe is known for his evocative musical exploration of remote Australian landscapes. Inspired by songlines of Ubirr in Kakadu National Park, this performance of Earth Cry features William Barton.

- Orff’s epic Carmina Burana flips the traditional idea of a cantata. Usually a religious work for instrumental ensemble, choir, and soloists, instead the work uses medieval secular (and sometimes scandalous) poetry as its basis to explore the age-old vices of life, love, and fortune.

English

Ryman Healthcare Winter Gala: Carmina Burana by Strauss, Sculthorpe, Orff, From (2024/2024), Conductor Jaime Martín, Arts Centre Melbourne, Southbank, Australia

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