Pinchgut Opera is a chamber opera company in Sydney, Australia, presenting opera from the 17th and 18th centuries performed on period instruments. Founded in 2002, Pinchgut stages two operas each year in Sydney's City Recital Hall. It also performs concerts in both Sydney and Melbourne.
The company utilises the professional chamber choir Cantillation as its chorus and has engaged both the Sirius Ensemble and the Orchestra of the Antipodes. Pinchgut draws most of its singers, players, directors and designers from Australia. Its artistic director is Erin Helyard. Antony Walker co-founded the company and conducted the early Pinchgut productions. All productions are recorded by Greenside Productions and Mano Musica and are released on CD under the "Pinchgut Live" label.
Pinchgut Opera draws its unusual name from Fort Denison, a former penal site in Sydney Harbour which was nicknamed "Pinchgut" by its inmates. According to its website, the company chose the name "as we wanted something recognisably Sydney, easy to remember and as a reminder of our tight budgets and humble beginnings".
PinchgutOpera is a chamber opera company in Sydney, Australia, presenting opera from the 17th and 18th centuries performed on period instruments. Founded...
2015 at Oper Frankfurt. The work was first performed in Australia by PinchgutOpera in 2022.A new staging has been included in the 2023/2024 season of the...
2014 there was another modern production of this Salieri opera. This time it was the PinchgutOpera of Sydney, Australia, performing it as The Chimneysweep...
colleges in 1706, 1715 and 1741. The opera received its American premiere in Baltimore in 2005. PinchgutOpera performed the Australian premiere in 2008;...
Brandenburg Concertos. Orchestra of the Antipodes often performs with the PinchgutOpera and appears on many ABC Classics albums. Albums they appear on include...
also known as Mattewanye or Muddawahnyuh in the Eora language, and as Pinchgut Island. The site contains time gun, navigational aids and tide gauge facilities...
in Japan, Italy, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She has performed with PinchgutOpera in The Fairy-Queen, toured with Musica Viva, Australia Bach Ensemble...
credited in productions by Australian companies PinchgutOpera, Theatre of Image, Bell Shakespeare, Opera Australia; and various other screen roles. Honeysett...
Australian Opera, Opera Queensland, State Opera of South Australia and Victorian Opera are based in individual states. Sydney's PinchgutOpera performs...
House, Musikverein, and the Royal Albert Hall. He also performed with PinchgutOpera and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Riebl sang and played trumpet...
Orchestra Australian String Quartet Gondwana Voices Musica Viva Australia PinchgutOpera Selby & Friends Sydney Children's Choir Sydney Festival Sydney Philharmonia...
Bajazet, PinchgutOpera, 2015 (first Southern Hemisphere production) The Turn of the Screw, New Zealand Opera, 2019 The Human Voice, New Zealand Opera, 2020...
in the world. In 2021, he directed Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne for PinchgutOpera.[citation needed] In February–March 2022, he directed Dennis Kelly's...
librettist Leopold Auenbrugger. The opera saw its Australian premiere in English as The Chimney Sweep in 2014 by PinchgutOpera. Setting: The rich mansion of...
2019 for Best Female Performer in a Supporting Role in an Opera. In 2019, for PinchgutOpera, she performed as Selinda in Vivaldi's Farnace. Fiebig was...
The Siege of Pinchgut (released in the US as Four Desperate Men) is a 1959 British thriller filmed on location in Sydney, Australia, and directed by Harry...
Choir. She is also a Patron of Opera Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, PinchgutOpera and the Australian Archaeological...
The International Opera Awards is an annual awards ceremony honouring excellence in opera around the world. The International Opera Awards was founded...
Role in an Opera three times, for Opera Australia's Partenope in 2011, for Saul at the Adelaide Festival in 2017 and for PinchgutOpera's L'incoronazione...
up to five works from the list of available pieces. On 30 September PinchgutOpera held a special concert "Music of France" at the Old Courts at the Art...
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