Audiences across the world will be able to watch the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for the 1st time projected live in concert onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House in a grand salute to Vienna, the world capital of classical music.
Visions Of Vienna, presented by the Vienna Tourist Board, is a multimedia event that will be live-streamed online. It is set to celebrate the importance of music to both cities – Vienna and Sydney – while presenting Vienna’s rich culture of acoustic and visual art.
Footage of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra players performing a classic Viennese program inside the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall will be projected live onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House, with the grand towering figures of the musicians transforming the cultural icon’s western exterior into a moving artwork.
The footage will be accompanied by stunning Viennese imagery inspired by the capital’s striking architecture, the Art Nouveau movement and the works of Austrian secessionist painter Gustav Klimt.
Audiences across the world will be able to view the spectacle unfolding on the sails in a live stream online, filmed from West Circular Quay.
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Managing Director Rory Jeffes said the event would be a chance for the world to see an orchestra like never before and learn more about the ‘City of Music’.
“We’re immensely proud to be joining the Vienna Tourist Board in what will be a celebration of classical music, Viennese art and multimedia excellence,” Mr Jeffes said. “As the world tunes in to watch our players live in action for the 1st time on the sails of the Sydney Opera House, we will be saluting Vienna and it’s contribution to our art form, and giving a friendly wave to our musical counterparts at the many institutions in the Austrian capital.”
Vienna Tourist Board Managing Director Norbert Kettner said the event would be a unique meeting of world-class music and world-class architecture: “It’s hard to imagine anything more impressive than a successful fusion of 2 different artistic disciplines at the very highest level – like we have managed in this case with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the kind of classical masterpieces that Vienna is so famous for and the unique architecture of the Sydney Opera House.”
Visions Of Vienna will begin at approximately 8:30pm AEDT and feature the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the 2nd half of Greatest Hits From Vienna, a concert in the spirit of the traditional Viennese New Year’s Day concert. Greatest Hits From Vienna will be led by Vienna-based conductor Ola Rudner and feature Viennese soprano Elisabeth Flechl as soloist in a program of classics, operetta and dance musical favourites by great composers such as Johann Strauss II, Lehar, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven.
The Vienna Tourist Board invites the public to view Visions Of Vienna from it’s public event area at Campbells Cove in The Rocks. More information can be found at: visions.vienna.info.
Audiences across the world can watch the live stream of the event at: www.sydneysymphony.com and visions.vienna.info.
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VISIONS OF VIENNA – Campbells Cove – 8:30pm Wednesday the 4th of February 2015 AEDT
- FRANCESCO SUPPÉ-DEMELLI Overture to ‘Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna’
- JOHANN STRAUSS II Overture to ‘The Bat’
- JOHANN STRAUSS II Sounds From Home
- JOHANN STRAUSS II Artist’s Life
- JOHANN STRAUSS II Egyptian March
- JOHANN STRAUSS II Greetings, My Lovely Little Nest
- JOSEF STRAUSS Without A Care!
- JOHANN STRAUSS II By the Beautiful Blue Danube
Ola Rudner – Conductor, Elisabeth Flechl – Soprano
GREATEST HITS FROM VIENNA – Sydney Opera House Concert Hall – 8pm Wednesday the 4th of February 2015 AEDT
- FRANZ SCHUBERT Overture to ‘Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus‘
- JOHANNES MOZART That Ungrateful Soul Betrayed Me
- LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN ‘The Creatures of Prometheus’ Finale
- FRANZ LEHAR Love, Thou Heaven On Earth
- JOHANNES BRAHMS The Hungarian Dances: No. 4 – In F Minor (F♯ Minor For Orchestra): Little Supported – Lively
- FRANCESCO SUPPÉ-DEMELLI Overture to ‘Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna’
- JOHANN STRAUSS II Overture to ‘The Bat’
- JOHANN STRAUSS II Sounds From Home
- JOHANN STRAUSS II Artist’s Life
- JOHANN STRAUSS II Egyptian March
- JOHANN STRAUSS II Greetings, My Lovely Little Nest
- JOSEF STRAUSS Without A Care!
- JOHANN STRAUSS II By the Beautiful Blue Danube
Ola Rudner – Conductor, Elisabeth Flechl – Soprano
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