The Creative Music Technology department is pleased to open its 2020 performance series with a concert of New Instruments for Musical Expression.

James Sandon has performed around the globe and is a sought after jazz educator performing regularly as a saxophonist and drummer in a variety of bands locally, nationally and internationally. An energetic and exciting night of original compositions and arrangements featuring some of Brisbane’s finest musicians.

Clocked Out team up with Adelaide based composer and cellist to present new works by all three artists.

Taking its name from the final work in the program, this first concert features violist Tobias Breider, soprano Greta Bradman and pianist Daniel de Borah. Leading the ensemble is future superstar violinist William Huxtable (Vic) in his first mentorship role with Ensemble Q.
Program: 
Charles Ives – Unanswered Question
Beethoven  – String Trio Opus 9 No 3 in C minor
Wagner – Wesendonck Lieder
Hindemith – Trauermusik
Mozart – Concerto No 12 in A major, K414
Golijov – Lullaby & Doina from “The Man Who Cried”

From the Tony Award-winning composer of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Falsettos and Little Miss Sunshine, comes a show about death that’s full of life. Inspired by the events of 9/11, William Finn wrote a series of songs about the people, places and things most dear to him that have passed on. Elegies tells all of our stories as life and loss as a shared experience. Benjamin Franklin once said, there are only two certainties in life, death and taxes – and a show about taxes would be really boring! Elegies is a moving, funny, heartfelt, celebration of life and love. Not to be missed!

From the Tony Award-winning composer of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Falsettos and Little Miss Sunshine, comes a show about death that’s full of life. Inspired by the events of 9/11, William Finn wrote a series of songs about the people, places and things most dear to him that have passed on. Elegies tells all of our stories as life and loss as a shared experience. Benjamin Franklin once said, there are only two certainties in life, death and taxes – and a show about taxes would be really boring! Elegies is a moving, funny, heartfelt, celebration of life and love. Not to be missed!

From the Tony Award-winning composer of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Falsettos and Little Miss Sunshine, comes a show about death that’s full of life. Inspired by the events of 9/11, William Finn wrote a series of songs about the people, places and things most dear to him that have passed on. Elegies tells all of our stories as life and loss as a shared experience. Benjamin Franklin once said, there are only two certainties in life, death and taxes – and a show about taxes would be really boring! Elegies is a moving, funny, heartfelt, celebration of life and love. Not to be missed!

The Endeavour Trio explores the wonderful world of Leos Janacek in three incredible arrangements of his music by Professor Stephen Emmerson

Kelsey Giarola will be showcasing an entire show’s worth of her new original music!

The Conservatorium Wind Orchestra presents a concert featuring music written for and inspired by dance. The repertoire will include a complement of time-honoured original works for wind band, transcriptions from the orchestral canon and exciting contemporary works. As in previous years, we will also collaborate with the talented students from the Young Conservatorium Wind Orchestra.

CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris

From the Tony Award-winning composer of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Falsettos and Little Miss Sunshine, comes a show about death that’s full of life. Inspired by the events of 9/11, William Finn wrote a series of songs about the people, places and things most dear to him that have passed on. Elegies tells all of our stories as life and loss as a shared experience. Benjamin Franklin once said, there are only two certainties in life, death and taxes – and a show about taxes would be really boring! Elegies is a moving, funny, heartfelt, celebration of life and love. Not to be missed!

From the Tony Award-winning composer of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Falsettos and Little Miss Sunshine, comes a show about death that’s full of life. Inspired by the events of 9/11, William Finn wrote a series of songs about the people, places and things most dear to him that have passed on. Elegies tells all of our stories as life and loss as a shared experience. Benjamin Franklin once said, there are only two certainties in life, death and taxes – and a show about taxes would be really boring! Elegies is a moving, funny, heartfelt, celebration of life and love. Not to be missed!

From the Tony Award-winning composer of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Falsettos and Little Miss Sunshine, comes a show about death that’s full of life. Inspired by the events of 9/11, William Finn wrote a series of songs about the people, places and things most dear to him that have passed on. Elegies tells all of our stories as life and loss as a shared experience. Benjamin Franklin once said, there are only two certainties in life, death and taxes – and a show about taxes would be really boring! Elegies is a moving, funny, heartfelt, celebration of life and love. Not to be missed!

A liederabend featuring Schumann’s beloved song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and a selection of Brahms’ delightful Liebeslieder Waltzes for vocal quartet.

Maestro Johannes Fritzsch leads the Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra in an exciting start to the 2020 orchestral season.

The program will include Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite and Toru Takemitsu’s Tree Line. The concert will conclude with one of Mozart’s largest and most complex symphonies, The Jupiter Symphony.

These lunchtime concerts feature talented students from the String Department. They are pleased to present a varied program showcasing their abilities.

Performances of top students from Piano Area.

First-year Creative Music Technology students present initial experiments with interactive technologies.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play about love and obsession, jealousy and magic. It takes place in a world where reality blurs with the mystic, where faeries are powerful, enchanting and mischievous. One of Shakespeare’s bestloved comedies, capturing romance and revelry in the hazy heat of Summer.

DIRECTOR: Matt Scholten

The theme of this concert is April fools, showcasing humorous pieces of music, mainly chamber ensembles. Haydn the joke string quartet. Mozart’s musical joke – horn sextet/Beethoven horn sextet. And to conclude the program Camille Saint Saens Carnival of the Animals combing musicians from all departments for a fun and lively piece.

Jamie will be presenting new compositions and tunes for quartet, drawing on influences as varied as jazz, new acoustic music, bluegrass and popular forms. Jamie has been a Sessional staff member at QCMGU since 1997, and has performed widely around Australia as an electric and acoustic guitarist.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play about love and obsession, jealousy and magic. It takes place in a world where reality blurs with the mystic, where faeries are powerful, enchanting and mischievous. One of Shakespeare’s bestloved comedies, capturing romance and revelry in the hazy heat of Summer.

DIRECTOR: Matt Scholten

A recital featuring the young virtuosi of the QCGU Wind Department.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play about love and obsession, jealousy and magic. It takes place in a world where reality blurs with the mystic, where faeries are powerful, enchanting and mischievous. One of Shakespeare’s bestloved comedies, capturing romance and revelry in the hazy heat of Summer.

DIRECTOR: Matt Scholten

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play about love and obsession, jealousy and magic. It takes place in a world where reality blurs with the mystic, where faeries are powerful, enchanting and mischievous. One of Shakespeare’s bestloved comedies, capturing romance and revelry in the hazy heat of Summer.

DIRECTOR: Matt Scholten

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play about love and obsession, jealousy and magic. It takes place in a world where reality blurs with the mystic, where faeries are powerful, enchanting and mischievous. One of Shakespeare’s bestloved comedies, capturing romance and revelry in the hazy heat of Summer.

DIRECTOR: Matt Scholten

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play about love and obsession, jealousy and magic. It takes place in a world where reality blurs with the mystic, where faeries are powerful, enchanting and mischievous. One of Shakespeare’s bestloved comedies, capturing romance and revelry in the hazy heat of Summer.

DIRECTOR: Matt Scholten

This event will feature the creative processes and musical work of a Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre researcher.

Come and join us for an evening of song from the talented musical theatre students.

Come and join us for an evening of song from the talented musical theatre students.

All linked by the horrors of war, this extraordinary program features works imbued with sadness of loss and the devastation of the composers’ lives, however the power of the human spirit and a great sense of hope comes riding through on a great white musical horse. As we approach Anzac Day, join Ensemble Q in this moving musical tribute to those who lost their lives in war. Featuring the brilliance of German born Canadian violinist Annette-Barbara Vogel.

A lunchtime concert celebrating the Earth and its beauty.  Works being performed in this concert, written by both local and well-kown composers, pay homage to the grandeur of nature and serve as a reminder of the problems our planet faces today.  This performance is an exploration of how our natural surroundings have inspired music through the ages.

Performance by students from the guitar area.

Sophie Min presents chamber ensemble works which is a continuous version of her orchestral arrangements + new episodes that condenses adventurous twists and moves. The show featuring her longest-running musical colleagues. Its spontaneity also across the string music – alongside the stunning Nonsemble Strings.

Peter Roennfeldt presents two pinnacles of chamber music with colleagues Margaret Connolly, Wayne Brennan, Nicholas Tomkin and Daniel Curro – the Brahms Piano Quintet Op.34 and Mendelssohn’s C minor Piano Trio Op.66 – performing on the 1843 Streicher Viennese piano which is ideal for these richly scored romantic works.

The Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra is excited to welcome back the sensational international conductor, Jessica Cottis. Hailed in the UK music press as “the one to watch”, she is fast gaining an international reputation as one of the most exciting conductors of the younger generation. Join us as Jessica leads the orchestra through an exciting program of works young and old.

REPERTOIRE:

BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite
LIKHUTA Rituals of Heartland
SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy

An evening of music by student-led bands from the jazz department.

These lunchtime concerts feature talented students from the String Department. The are pleased to present a varied program showcasing their abilities.

The Conservatorium Big Band, under the direction of John Hoffman, will present an exciting concert of classic big band repertoire, composed and arranged by some of the greatest exponents of the genre.

Henry Purcell’s dramatic work tells the compelling story of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, a Trojan hero. They fall madly in love, but an evil sorceress plots to cause the downfall of Carthage, and with that, the destruction of Dido and Aeneas’ love. Aeneas seeks to defy the gods in order to remain with his beloved Dido. Dido on the other hand, feels betrayed by his perceived disloyalty and her desperation triggers a chain of events that, like most operas, does not end well…

Special thanks to Dr Glenda Powell OAM, whose long-standing support of the Val Machin Opera Scenes, named in memory of her mother, has continued to provide our emerging opera students with invaluable experiences at the Conservatorium.

Henry Purcell’s dramatic work tells the compelling story of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Aeneas, a Trojan hero. They fall madly in love, but an evil sorceress plots to cause the downfall of Carthage, and with that, the destruction of Dido and Aeneas’ love. Aeneas seeks to defy the gods in order to remain with his beloved Dido. Dido on the other hand, feels betrayed by his perceived disloyalty and her desperation triggers a chain of events that, like most operas, does not end well…

Special thanks to Dr Glenda Powell OAM, whose long-standing support of the Val Machin Opera Scenes, named in memory of her mother, has continued to provide our emerging opera students with invaluable experiences at the Conservatorium.

First year Creative Music Technology students present a concert of live electronic music.

Performances of top students from Piano Area.

The Conservatorium Wind Orchestra presents a concert featuring exciting new works and unexpected collaborations. Come join us for world premieres of new works and cross-disciplinary art projects as we define the future of this evolving art form!

CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris

Ensemble Q is joined by the phenomenal New York bandoneon artist and composer JP Jofre in a celebration of music inspired by dance and leading into JP Jofre’s incredible tango-inspired compositions for classical ensemble. With some of the greatest dance inspired chamber works in the first half of the program (and perhaps one infamous dancing clarinetist), be prepared to get a little steamy as we take you on a journey to South America and JP Jofre’s world of incredible music.

A showcase of new works featuring the sonic joyfulness of new and bleeding-edge technologies – come wonder at the unique creations!

We live in a culture dominated by media technologies, this screening/concert asks: what is it to be ‘live’ in a virtual world?

A concert showcasing the talents of our wind department students.

A concert showcasing the students of the Conservatorium chamber music program.

The Conservatorium’s premier jazz vocal ensembles Raised Voices and In-Voices present a double bill of unique compositions and arrangements for the genre.

An evening of music by student-led bands from the jazz department.

A concert showcasing the students of the Conservatorium chamber music program.

Come and join us for an evening of song from these talented students.

Come and join us for an evening of song from these talented students.

Do you have what it takes to be an actor? Find out at our Audition Workshop!

Date: Monday 6 – Friday 10 July, 2020

Do you have what it takes to be a musical theatre performer?

Find out at our Audition Workshop!

When: Monday 6 – Friday 10 July 2020.

Cost : $560 (incl GST)

This week-long audition workshop is for performers in years 11, 12 and beyond who want to develop auditioning skills in Musical Theatre.

Participants will work with our expert performing arts staff in intensive group-lessons and learn the essentials of the auditioning processes, etiquette and material selection. They will also learn a simple dance routine, take part in mock auditions; work on their singing and acting pieces and hear from industry professionals about their own audition experiences.

The Performing Arts Musical Theatre Audition Workshop, held at our Woolloongabba studios, is a fundamental experience for those preparing for a career in musical theatre.

Please email [email protected] with any queries.

Part of a National Tour of Emerging Female Composers.

Supported by APRA, Australia Council, Tura New Music

This event will feature the creative processes and musical work of a Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre researcher.

The performance will be a showcase of new works for percussion, involving Australian premieres and world premieres of local and international emerging composers.

Students of the classical voice department will present a program of art song and operatic arias together with pianist and Conservatorium Lecturer in Opera Practices, Jillianne Stoll.

Alumni, and director of the Australian Art Orchestra Peter Knight, teams up with longterm collaborators in their first trio performance.

Come and support the Riverside Guitar Ensemble’s forthcoming interstate tour! Riverside Ensemble features Queensland’s finest young professional guitarists alongside QCGU’s leading guitar students in an exciting programme of music from around the world. Drinks and nibbles will be provided after the concert and the audience will have the chance to mingle with the ensemble and their director Karin Schaupp.

Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba.

Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future.

Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of
the West.

DIRECTOR: Alister Smith
CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Heidi Loveland

Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba.

Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future.

Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of
the West.

DIRECTOR: Alister Smith
CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Heidi Loveland

Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba.

Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future.

Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of
the West.

DIRECTOR: Alister Smith
CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Heidi Loveland

Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba.

Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future.

Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of
the West.

DIRECTOR: Alister Smith
CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Heidi Loveland

Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba.

Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future.

Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of
the West.

DIRECTOR: Alister Smith
CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Heidi Loveland

Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba.

Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future.

Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of
the West.

DIRECTOR: Alister Smith
CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Heidi Loveland

Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba.

Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future.

Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of
the West.

DIRECTOR: Alister Smith
CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Heidi Loveland

Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba.

Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future.

Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of
the West.

DIRECTOR: Alister Smith
CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Heidi Loveland

Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba.

Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future.

Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of
the West.

DIRECTOR: Alister Smith
CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Heidi Loveland

Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba.

Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future.

Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of
the West.

DIRECTOR: Alister Smith
CONDUCTOR: Peter Morris
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Heidi Loveland

Michael Gow’s Away is one of Australia’s most popular plays. Set in the summer of 1967-68, it focuses on three families embarking on their summer holiday at the end of the year. The families are seen as a cross section of the Australian community. During each of the holidays there is a storm and they coincidently end up on the same beach.

DIRECTOR: Jacqui Somerville

A performance by the talented students of the Double Bass class.

Michael Gow’s Away is one of Australia’s most popular plays. Set in the summer of 1967-68, it focuses on three families embarking on their summer holiday at the end of the year. The families are seen as a cross section of the Australian community. During each of the holidays there is a storm and they coincidently end up on the same beach.

DIRECTOR: Jacqui Somerville

Join members of the Conservatorium Wind Orchestra as we present a concert of significant works composed for 13-18 winds. Following on from very successful chamber wind orchestra programs in 2018 and 2019, this has now become an annual event to look forward to! This concert will also feature our masters and doctoral conducting students.

These lunchtime concerts feature talented students from the String Department. The are pleased to present a varied program showcasing their abilities.

Michael Gow’s Away is one of Australia’s most popular plays. Set in the summer of 1967-68, it focuses on three families embarking on their summer holiday at the end of the year. The families are seen as a cross section of the Australian community. During each of the holidays there is a storm and they coincidently end up on the same beach.

DIRECTOR: Jacqui Somerville

Michael Gow’s Away is one of Australia’s most popular plays. Set in the summer of 1967-68, it focuses on three families embarking on their summer holiday at the end of the year. The families are seen as a cross section of the Australian community. During each of the holidays there is a storm and they coincidently end up on the same beach.

DIRECTOR: Jacqui Somerville

Michael Gow’s Away is one of Australia’s most popular plays. Set in the summer of 1967-68, it focuses on three families embarking on their summer holiday at the end of the year. The families are seen as a cross section of the Australian community. During each of the holidays there is a storm and they coincidently end up on the same beach.

DIRECTOR: Jacqui Somerville

Michael Gow’s Away is one of Australia’s most popular plays. Set in the summer of 1967-68, it focuses on three families embarking on their summer holiday at the end of the year. The families are seen as a cross section of the Australian community. During each of the holidays there is a storm and they coincidently end up on the same beach.

DIRECTOR: Jacqui Somerville

Pianist Stephen Emmerson and soprano Margaret Schindler will present a program of songs by American composers Charles Ives and George Crumb including his masterpiece Apparition.

Third year Creative Music Technology students present a concert of new and original works with a variety of electronic and digital technology.

An evening of music by student-led bands from the jazz department.

Based on the Shakespeare classic, Much Ado About Nothing, Hector Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict is a comic opera involving two very different pairs of lovers – the first, Claudio and Héro, are traditionally tender and loving, and the other, Béatrice and Bénédict, completely the opposite. The friction between this pair creates a timeless tale of secrets, lies, humour and mistaken identity. Set to Berlioz’s lush and romantic score, and conducted by Johannes Fritzsch, this is an opera that the whole family will enjoy.

First year Creative Music Technology students present a concert with bespoke software instruments using open-source visual programming language Pure data (Pd).

Based on the Shakespeare classic, Much Ado About Nothing, Hector Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict is a comic opera involving two very different pairs of lovers – the first, Claudio and Héro, are traditionally tender and loving, and the other, Béatrice and Bénédict, completely the opposite. The friction between this pair creates a timeless tale of secrets, lies, humour and mistaken identity. Set to Berlioz’s lush and romantic score, and conducted by Johannes Fritzsch, this is an opera that the whole family will enjoy.

Performances of top students from the Piano Area.

Based on the Shakespeare classic, Much Ado About Nothing, Hector Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict is a comic opera involving two very different pairs of lovers – the first, Claudio and Héro, are traditionally tender and loving, and the other, Béatrice and Bénédict, completely the opposite. The friction between this pair creates a timeless tale of secrets, lies, humour and mistaken identity. Set to Berlioz’s lush and romantic score, and conducted by Johannes Fritzsch, this is an opera that the whole family will enjoy.