Love List: Chamber Opera by Jack Symonds
Sydney Chamber Opera’s Artistic Director Jack Symonds introduces us to the chamber opera genre and beyond, in this playlist featuring key repertoire and some of the company’s favourite works to perform.
“It was a pleasure to stage this strange, beautiful song cycle/pocket opera by Leoš Janáček at the Opera House. A titan of grand opera in the first half of the 20th century, Janáček’s extraordinary music and sense of time is still enormously influential with composers today. Diary of One Who Disappeared is a small-scale work that perfectly exemplifies what SCO loves to do.”