The Canberra International Music Festival Promises Exciting Lineup
Wednesday March 4, 2009
The Canberra International Music Festival has a new lineup of musicians for this year's event with a famous opera that has not been performed since the opening of the Sydney Opera House, the music of a 19th century female composer and a music marathon set to play at the festival, which runs from the 7 to 17th of May.
Rites of Passage, the acclaimed opera that has only been performed once in Australia at the opening of the Sydney Opera House in 1973, will be directed by its composer, Peter Sculthorpe.
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847), sister of Felix Mendelsshon, will have her music performed by Marcela Fiorillo for the first time ever in Australia.
"For various reasons she just didn't get published and that was the way you got your music known. So she was known as an extremely impressive amateur who only got to play two public concerts in her life, the rest she had to put on in her living room, but had the reputation of the one of the greatest pianists in Europe," new festival director, Mr Latham told The Canberra Times about the talented composer.
Audiences will be then be treated to a seven-hour long concert that features a group that has been coined as the best vocal ensemble in the world, Rajaton from Finland.
Latham says that this year's international music festival will be more widely appreciated.
"We are trying to choose extremely beautiful music with an emphasis on a nurturing quality, something that would feed you. You would walk out of it feeling much better, like something internally had been reassembled or made smooth or right," he said.
If you would like to know more about Canberra festivals go to Canberra Events for details
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