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Early opera is like wine; it comes in a fascinating variety of different styles, genres, tastes and colours. Baroque Banter is Pinchgut Opera's new podcast series diving deep into the world of baroque music and offering a taste of all the varying aspects of early opera. Put on your tasting slippers, sit back and enjoy a nice full glass of music appreciation.
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Tune in for a journey through one of opera's most beloved works, Dido and Aeneas. Dive into the enchanting world of Purcell's masterpiece with Host Genevieve Lang, conductor Erin Helyard and director Lucy Clements. Whether you're an opera aficionado or a newcomer, this episode lets you discover the details of this fresh new production by Pinchgut O…
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Episode 12: The new prologue for Dido and Aeneas
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Join award-winning writer and actress Kate Mulvany OAM and acclaimed director Lucy Clements as they discuss the new prologue for Pinchgut's new production of Dido and Aeneas. In the spirit of providing a backstory and context Kate has written us a new spoken-word prologue that helps us freshly understand Purcell’s original setting. Discover what it…
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Pre-performance podcast - Theodora In Concert
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Host Keiren Brandt-Sawdy chats with Artistic Director and Erin Helyard about Theodora. Delve deep into Handel's oratorio and gain insight our performance at the Sydney Opera House in partnership with Opera Australia.By Pinchgut Opera
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Host Keiren Brandt-Sawdy chats with conductor Erin Helyard and director Louisa Muller about one of the most beloved works in the Baroque repertoire.Discover fresh insight into Pinchgut's first staging of a Handel opera, with Rinaldo. Get ready to be swept away by the magic and adventure when you witness this towering masterpiece of music and drama …
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Pre-performance podcast - Pleasures of Versailles
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In this pre-performance podcast, host Genevieve Lang sits down with Conductor Erin Helyard to chat about the upcoming September performance of Pleasures of Versailles by Charpentier. They discuss the tiny operas that were enjoyed by Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles. Step inside the courtly chambers and learn about the entertainment that was fi…
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Baroque Banter Episode 11 - French Imports
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Baroque Banter 11: French Imports. In this Baroque Banter Erin Helyard talks about the influence of Italian music and musicians in France in the seventeenth century. He talks about opera, dances, chaconnes, passacaglias and the multicultural mix that makes Baroque music so special. Excerpts by Erin on harpsichord.…
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Host Genevieve Lang is joined by Pinchgut's Artistic Director Erin Helyard and director Dean Bryant to discuss the much anticipated Australian premiere of the opera Giustino by Legrenzi.A forgotten triumph of Venetian opera, Giustino is a fast-paced, kaleidoscopic and fanciful opera packed with arias and old-fashioned wonder that will leave you sta…
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Pre-performance podcast - Membra Jesu Nostri
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Pinchgut Opera’s pre-concert podcast with Genevieve Lang and Pinchgut Opera Artistic Director, Erin Helyard.Passion, divinity, transcendence: Pinchgut Opera presents its first concert of the season, Membra Jesu Nostri by Buxtehude. A cycle of seven cantatas composed by German composer Dieterich Buxtehude in 1680. The music is loving: pure, balanced…
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Pre-Concert Podcast Sneak Excerpt - Membra Jesu Nostri
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Listen to a sneak peek of the Membra Jesu Nostri pre-concert podcast, hosted by Genevieve Lang and Erin Helyard.Passion, divinity, transcendence: Pinchgut Opera presents its first concert of the season, Membra Jesu Nostri by Buxtehude. 1 - 4 April, Sydney and Melbourne.By Pinchgut Opera
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Pinchgut Opera presents a very special episode of Baroque Banter!Host Genevieve Lang is joined by Pinchgut's Artistic Director Erin Helyard to discuss the exciting season of Baroque and Early Music concerts and operas ahead for our treasured audiences in our 2023 Season. We hope you enjoy listening! PINCHGUT OPERA'S 2023 SEASONApril | ConcertMembra…
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To help you prepare for your attendance at Médée, we invite you to listen to Pinchgut's pre-opera podcast. Hosted by Genevieve Lang, with guests Pinchgut Opera Artistic Director Erin Helyard, and Director Justin Way.For more than 20 years, Pinchgut Opera's end of year production has remained one of the highlights of thelive performance calendar, an…
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Pre-performance podcast - Women of the Pietà
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Pinchgut Opera’s pre-concert podcast, hosted by Genevieve Lang, with guest, Pinchgut Opera Artistic Director, Erin Helyard. For over three centuries, Venice was home to a special institution unique in music history: the ospedali. These were inaugurated as state-run shelters for poor or homeless children and the ospedali provided the very first form…
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Pinchgut Opera's pre-opera podcast, hosted by Genevieve Lang, with very special guests Pinchgut Opera Artistic Director Erin Helyard, and Director Constantine Costi.Witty, beautiful and psychologically fascinating, Orontea is set in a heightened contemporary world somewhere between Egypt and Las Vegas. The story centres around a love octagon, where…
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Pre-performance podcast - The Spiritual Forest
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Pinchgut Opera's pre-concert podcast hosted by Genevieve Lang with very special guest, Pinchgut Opera's Artistic Director, Erin Helyard.The Spiritual Forest by Monteverdi is a concert featuring some of the most sublime sacred music ever written, taken from Claudio Monteverdi's magnum opus of 1641, Selva morale e spirituale. Genevieve and Erin explo…
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Baroque Banter Episode 10 - Baroque Ornamentation
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In this podcast, Artistic Director Erin Helyard delves into the vibrant world of baroque ornamentation. Singers both then and now are expected to ornament their music in an exciting way that shows off their technique and expression. We look at treatises, unearth some recently discovered ornamentation in Handel’s hand, and lift a lid on the ornament…
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Platée's pre-opera podcast hosted by Genevieve Lang with very special guests Pinchgut Opera's Artistic Director Erin Helyard, and cast members Kanen Breen and Cathy-Di Zhang.Celebrated Australian director Neil Armfield makes his Pinchgut debut in a deliciously twisted comedy by one of the greatest French baroque composers. Rameau clearly enjoyed hi…
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Baroque Banter Episode 09 -The Economics of Opera
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We are thrilled to present a new episode of Baroque Banter, The Economics of Opera. In this fascinating episode, Erin examines how opera was run and funded in the age of Monteverdi, Cavalli and Cesti; who got paid the most and the least, who were the movers and shakers, and who were the impresarios who risked it all for a shot at fame.Take a deep d…
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Pre-performance podcast - The Loves of Apollo & Dafne
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Pre-opera podcast hosted by Genevieve Lang with very special guests, Pinchgut Opera Artistic Director Erin Helyard and Director Mitchell Butel. The Loves of Apollo & Dafne by Cavalli Directed by Mitchell Butel and featuring Alexandra Oomens, Max Riebl and Stacy Alleaume (fresh from her stand out performances with Opera Australia in La Traviata.) Pi…
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Genevieve Lang sits down with Pinchgut Opera's Artistic Director Erin Helyard to provide some great insights and information about Pinchgut Opera's performance of Monteverdi's Vespers.Perfect listening to prepare for your concert of this Baroque masterpiece.By Pinchgut Opera
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Baroque Banter Episode 08 - The Music Scene
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In this episode, Erin Helyard discusses the music scene — those moments in opera where music itself is the topic, and the characters allude to singing or playing or they actually sing a song! Because everything else is sung, how do these “songs” function? Erin explains that there are three kinds of music scene: the song-within-the-opera, the gratui…
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Baroque Banter Episode 07 - The Love Duet
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In the newest episode of our podcast series, Baroque Banter - The Love Duet, Erin Helyard discusses the love duet in baroque opera and the intense emotions it helps to convey - from blissful love to total despair. Erin delves deep into the subject matter and explains the function and evolution of one of opera’s most evocative and transcendent conve…
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Baroque Banter Episode 06- In Conversation with Miriam Allan
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The next episode of our podcast series, Baroque Banter - In Conversation with Miriam Allan is out now.In this episode Erin Helyard is joined by one of his true contemporaries, soprano and self-proclaimed lover of chaconnes, Miriam Allan. Miriam has performed in multiple Pinchgut productions, beginning with our very first in 2002, Handel's Semele. U…
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Baroque Banter Episode 05 - The Lament
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The newest episode of our podcast series, Baroque Banter, is available for you to listen to now. In episode 5, The Lament, Artistic Director Erin Helyard focuses on this very influential and important component of operatic history.Tune in now to find out the fascinating history and importance of laments not only in opera, but also in literary histo…
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Baroque Banter Episode 04- Erin Helyard in conversation with Simon Rickard
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In this episode no.4 of Baroque Banter historical bassoon specialist, Simon Rickard joins Pinchgut Opera Artistic Director Erin Helyard to discuss historical performance practice and baroque musical instruments. Tune in now and find out what the musette culture is and what it has in common with today's hipster movement.…
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Baroque Banter Episode 03 - The Sleeping Scene with guest Laura Vaughan
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The third episode of Baroque Banter, The Sleeping Scene discusses the depictions of sleep in music. Erin is joined by guest Laura Vaughan to talk about these somnolent, languid and calming musical scenes.By Pinchgut Opera
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Baroque Banter Episode 02 - Erin Helyard in conversation with Chas Rader-Shieber
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Pinchgut Opera Artistic Director Erin Helyard in conversation with director Chas Rader-Shieber.By Pinchgut Opera
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Baroque Banter Episode 01 - The Incantation Scene with guest Celeste Lazarenko
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Episode 1 "The Incantation Scene"with guest Celeste LazarenkoThis episode will focus on a very famous scene from one of Erin Helyard's very favourite operas. It is the incantation scene sung by Medea from Cavalli’s Giasone, with a wonderful libretto by Cicognini. It was very famous and became a model for composers and librettists for over a century…
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