Ryman Healthcare Winter Gala: Carmina Burana | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Streaming live Friday 05 July 2024 at 7:30pm. Featuring Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Jaime Martín | conductor William Barton | yidaki Kathryn Radcliffe | soprano Andrew Goodwin | tenor Christopher Tonkin | bass MSO Chorus Warren Trevelyan-Jones | chorus director Young Voices of Melbourne Program R. Strauss Don Juan Sculthorpe Earth Cry Orff Carmina Burana About this performance Under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín, this year’s Winter Gala brings together a stellar ensemble of vocal soloists and the MSO Chorus for the thundering Carmina Burana. Queensland’s 2023 Australian of the Year – the extraordinary yidaki (didgeridoo) virtuoso William Barton – performs Peter Sculthorpe’s evocative Earth Cry. The steamy Spanish legend of Don Juan has seduced many an artist and composer since the renaissance. Rumour has it that the content of this orchestral tone poem – as disapproving letters to Strauss from his father would suggest – also draw