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Sydney Symphony Orchestra
2019 Season
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra 2019 season is packed with musical treasures. Whether it’s pianist Lang Lang, The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, Peter Grimes the 2019 Opera in Concert, or Film with Live Orchestra performances of Harry PotterTM and Star Wars, there really is something for all musical tastes and ages.
“In our programming for 2019 you’ll hear heart-warming, familiar music, sometimes the brave voice of an emerging composer, or perhaps a rarity from a composer you know well. Each and every concert we’ll present acknowledges our shared humanity and represents the best of what we can be.” David Robertson, Chief Conductor and Artistic Director
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Classical Music
Passionate, hypnotic and thrilling: a concert to showcase the collective virtuosity of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Virtuoso violinist Tianwa Yang and conductor Asher Fisch take us to the Romantic and majestic wilds of Scotland.
Majestic music reveals stunning vistas as pianist Barry Douglas performs Brahms’ heroic Piano Concerto No.2. Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony soars in conclusion.
Simone Lamsma ascends the sublime heights of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky wrestles with fate in his dramatic Fourth Symphony.
Majestic music reveals stunning vistas as pianist Barry Douglas performs Brahms’ heroic Piano Concerto No.2. Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony soars in conclusion.
Discover Yulianna Avdeeva’s dexterity and thrilling assurance in Chopin. Rediscover a Brahms chamber masterwork in a sumptuous orchestral setting.
Virtuoso showstoppers, Bohemian spirit and Romantic style…
Classical Music
Music of the Oud: Joseph Tawadros with the Sydney Symphony
20 Jun 2019 - 22 Jun 2019
In a concert to break boundaries, Joseph Tawadros will enchant you with his music, storytelling and his virtuosity on the oud, the Egyptian lute. Expect joyous music from the crossroads of east and west.
High spirits and high drama: rollicking Prokofiev from violinist Vadim Gluzman, Beethoven’s always-thrilling Fifth Symphony and one of the great moments in opera from Verdi.
Seductive, sunny and sensational. The great mezzo-soprano Susan Graham stars in a concert of French favourites conducted by David Robertson.
Chief Conductor David Robertson conducts a superb cast led by acclaimed Australian tenor Stuart Skelton in Peter Grimes, one of the great operas of the 20th century.
Acclaimed Australian Conductor Simone Young shows us visions of Vienna and then takes us to hell and back with Liszt’s epic Dante Symphony.
Celebrated Australian conductor Simone Young shows us Schubert’s Vienna with pianist Louis Lortie and the infernal visions of Liszt’s Dante Symphony. Expect rich and vividly expressive music!
Khachaturian’s violin concerto overflows with exotic melody and Mark Wigglesworth conducts Shostakovich’s electrifying Fourth Symphony.
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts two Elgar masterpieces – the Cello Concerto and the Enigma Variations.
The Planets is a must-hear event with the legendary Vladimir Ashkenazy as your guide to the heavens, and virtuoso Alexei Volodin seduces with the Medtner’s piano concerto.
There’ll be eight seasons in one day when Vivaldi’s famous Four meets the tango rhythms of Piazzolla’s year in Buenos Aires.
Classical Music
Bruckner's Symphony No. 7: Donald Runnicles' Music of Inspiration
17 Oct 2019 - 19 Oct 2019
You don’t listen to a Bruckner symphony, you inhabit it. The great Bruckner conductor Donald Runnicles is our guide in Bruckner’s expansive – yet accessible – Seventh symphony, perhaps his finest and most beautiful creation!
You don’t listen to a Bruckner symphony, you inhabit it. Donald Runnicles is our guide in Bruckner’s expansive – yet accessible – Seventh.
Experience the compelling artistry of Behzod Abduraimov in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1, followed by Rachmaninoff’s most popular symphony.
David Robertson conducts American dreams by Adams, Copland and Rouse, including the classic Appalachian Spring in his final concert as Chief Conductor.
Simone Young and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra close their 2019 season in legendary style with Mahler’s magical fairy tale.
Special Nights Out
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra welcomes the Year of the Boar with orchestral fireworks.
A blazing beginning to 2019 with the Sydney Symphony. Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra is an unforgettable musical odyssey.
The greatest Jazz Orchestra on the planet, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, David Robertson and the Sydney Symphony celebrate the brash, brassy, razzle-dazzle of New York City.
Wynton Marsalis leads the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in a celebration of swing.
Wear your red, white & blue, grab your flag and your friends then head to the Last Night of the Proms!.
Sydney audiences always turn out in force when piano superstar Lang Lang performs. In 2019 he returns to play Mozart’s dark yet dazzling Piano Concerto No.24.
Classical Music
Tom Stoppard and and André Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
22 Nov 2019 - 23 Nov 2019
‘Never mix music with politics.’ Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn’s dark political-musical comedy does exactly that!
Film with Orchestra
James Bond on the big-screen accompanied by the Sydney Symphony performing composer David Arnold’s thrilling musical score live to the film!
Thestrals and prophecies and Umbridge, oh my! Experience the magic of the film with a live Orchestra.
Relive the magic of Harry’s sixth year at Hogwarts™ School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, accompanied live by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Experience the spectacular Star Wars saga on the big-screen, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing John Williams’ iconic score live to film.
Experience The Force Awakens, with Oscar-winning composer John Williams’ score performed live to film by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Family Events
Promenade around an imaginary art gallery with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and physical communicator Andy Dexterity.
Discover the vivid imagery of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – one of the most famous pieces ever written, and the perfect introduction to classical music!
One dead composer and a whole orchestra of suspects in this hilarious whodunit by Nathaniel Stookey and Lemony Snicket.
Tea & Symphony
Virtuoso violinist Tianwa Yang and conductor Asher Fisch take us to the Romantic and majestic wilds of Scotland.
David Drury plays spectacular music by Bach and Saint-Saëns on the Grand Organ of the Sydney Opera House. Here’s a rare opportunity to hear this organ in full flight!
The cellos of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra take centre stage, showcasing this most soulful of instruments.
Delight in an hour of Mozart with a charming concerto for a wind foursome and a theatrical symphony.
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts two Elgar masterpieces – the Cello Concerto and the Enigma Variations.
Enjoy the joie de vivre of a Paris morning as sensual music by Debussy, Ibert and Milhaud dazzles and delights.
East meets West in Turkish-inspired music by Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn.
Cocktail Hour
Enjoy two string quintets with a difference in this one-hour early evening concert of chamber music.
A tuneful hour of chamber music with the sounds of Boccherini, Glazunov and an ‘extra’ cello in the extraordinary space of the Utzon Room.
Enjoy an hour of intimate chamber music in the Utzon Room with dreams and dances by Dohnányi and Shostakovich, with a detour to Finland for a tango lesson.
Masterpieces by Beethoven and Brahms demonstrate the depth and power of chamber music in the sublime atmosphere of the Utzon Room.
Jazzy, folky, dancelike and devilish – the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Fellows perform playful modern chamber music masterpieces in the intimate settings of the Utzon Room.
A soulful, sophisticated and sparkling musical hour with lyrical Mendelssohn and classical Martinů.