Garden of Earthly Delights Luminescence Chamber Singers

  • Classical Music
  • Contemporary Music
  • Utzon Room
  • Run time - 70 minutes, no interval

A garden teeming with temptation and desire

Luminescence Chamber Singers offer a modern vocal cornucopia that captures the delight, desire, and dread of Hieronymus Bosch’s surreal 1515 vision.

From grotesque creatures to improbable scenes of surrender: the uninhibited world of Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old triptych “De tuin der lusten”, the Garden of Earthly Delights.

Whether it is interpreted as a paradise of indulgence or as a stark warning about the moral decay during a time of rapid change, this ever-enigmatic work exudes dread and seduction in equal measure. Trust Luminescence Chamber Singers to turn this surreal feast of the senses into an aural tapestry as pleasurable and perilous as Bosch’s vision.

Drawn from the vaults of Renaissance raunch alongside daring modern transgressions, Garden of Earthly Delights offers a vocal cornucopia of surprise and surreptitiously cheeky delight.

Program to include new music by Nicole Murphy and Archie Tulk, alongside work by works by Orlande de Lassus, Frank Nyuts, Gavin Bryars, and more.

Presented by Luminescence Chamber Singers

Event details

Lively, intelligent, and alternately great fun and serious. And always beautifully performed.

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Artist information

Mezzo-Soprano & Artistic Director
AJ America

Baritone
Lucien Fischer

Soprano
Josephine Brereton

Soprano
Rachel Mink

Bass-Baritone
Alasdair Stretch

Tenor
Dan Walker

Conductor
Roland Peelman AM

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Attending this event

Plan your visit

Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Utzon Room

The Utzon Room is located on the Eastern side of the Opera House, in front of the Joan Sutherland Theatre. Best accessed through the Box Office Foyer or the Covered Concourse. All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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