Cristina Russo joins Renaissance band La Compania to bring the music of the Italian Renaissance to life.
Tickets available via the link below.
Renaissance Rhythms (melbournerecital.com.au)
From Dowland to Death Cab for Cutie, this programme explores the nature of love; from its moments of yearning and anguish, to the utter bliss of a “sweet, inarticulate hour”.
Travelling through over 400 years of music, the programme travels through folk song, early baroque song, opera and indie rock. By the concert’s conclusion, we are drawn collectively into a moment of peaceful contentment through the works of Arvo Pärt and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Through the use of carefully crafted musical segues, the programme presents itself as one unified work with a beating emotional undercurrent throughout.
Tickets available here: Cristina Russo & Adam Cook – (melbournerecital.com.au)
Pianist: Adam Cook
Soprano: Cristina Russo
Australia’s celebrated Renaissance Band unearths some of the most beautiful and fascinating music of the 16th and early 17th centuries with a unique blend of virtuosity, flair and joyful musicality on a splendid array of expressive period instruments with Cristina Russo as soprano soloist.
Cristina will perform as soprano soloist in Dvorak Mass in D followed by a concert of operatic arias from grand opera with the Heidelberg Chorale.
Cristina will be soprano soloist for this performance of Schubert’s Mass in G and Dvorak’s Mass in D with the Heidelberg Chorale, interspersed with solo aria gems from the oratorio repertoire.
Cristina will be soprano soloist for this performance of Schubert’s Mass in G and Dvorak’s Mass in D with the Heidelberg Chorale, interspersed with solo aria gems from the oratorio repertoire.
Cristina will be soprano soloist for this performance of Schubert’s Mass in G and Dvorak’s Mass in D with the Heidelberg Chorale, interspersed with solo aria gems from the oratorio repertoire.
Cristina will be soprano soloist for this performance of Schubert’s Mass in G and Dvorak’s Mass in D with the Heidelberg Chorale, interspersed with solo aria gems from the oratorio repertoire.
Cristina will be soprano soloist for this performance of Schubert’s Mass in G and Dvorak’s Mass in D with the Heidelberg Chorale, interspersed with solo aria gems from the oratorio repertoire.
Cristina will be soprano soloist for this performance of Schubert’s Mass in G and Dvorak’s Mass in D with the Heidelberg Chorale, interspersed with solo aria gems from the oratorio repertoire.
Cristina will be soprano soloist for this performance of Schubert’s Mass in G and Dvorak’s Mass in D with the Heidelberg Chorale, interspersed with solo aria gems from the oratorio repertoire.
Cristina will be performing the soprano solos of Handel’s Messiah with the Gloriana Chamber Choir conducted by Andrew Raiskums.
Soprano: Cristina Russo
Alto: Sally-Anne Russell
Tenor: Daniel Todd
Bass-Baritone: Nicholas Dinopoulos
with full baroque orchestra.
Tickets available here
Cristina will be performing the soprano solos of the Messe Solennelle (St Cecilia Mass) by Gounod and the Bach Magnificat with the Heidelberg Choral Society. Handel’s "The King Shall Rejoice” and a number of carols will conclude the programme.
Conductor: Peter Bandy
Soprano: Cristina Russo
Mezzo-Soprano: Shakira Dugan
Tenor: Robert MacFarlane
Bass: Markus Matheis
Tickets available here
Cristina will perform the Christe Eleison duet from Bach’s Mass in B Minor with mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne Russell.
Cristina joins renowned Renaissance band, LaCompañia exploring the music of 16th Century Spain. In 1595 the Spaniard Pedro Bermúdez makes an epic sea voyage to the Americas with nothing but his most precious music manuscripts. Fast forward 400 years, and now the Australian premier of his ‘Missa de Bomba’ will be performed side-by-side with the inspiration for this work, the intriguing Ensalada ‘La Bomba’ by Matheo Flecha. These two dramatic pieces with themes of shipwrecks and devotion will form the centrepiece of this program along with other splendid songs from Spain & the New World.
Tickets available here.
Soprano: Cristina Russo
Tenor: Robert MacFarlane
The Flowers of the Great War collection is a gift to the nation and the world. Containing more than 20 hours of first recordings, music and contextual information, it is a survey of the best composers and painters from a dozen nations who fought in that conflict, most of whom were killed. It is a measure and demonstration of the cultural cost of war, undertaken as part of Christopher Latham’s artist-in-residence position at the Australian War Memorial.
A primary focus has been the recovery of the music of Frederick Septimus Kelly, Australia’s greatest cultural loss of WW1. Cristina will perform some of the gems of Kelly’s writing, including Crossing the Bar and It Is Not Dawn ‘Til You Awake. The collection includes the first complete edition of his recorded works, so that this important Australian, who served with the poet Rupert Brooke, and alongside Bernard Freyberg at Gallipoli and in the Somme where he was killed in 1916, can finally be reclaimed. Educated in Germany and fluent in German and French, Kelly is buried in France, 2kms from Pozieres. He embodies the alliance between our three nations.
In parallel to that cultural recovery, two large contemporary works about the Australian experiences in WW1 were also created: The Gallipoli Symphony, commissioned by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, bringing together the Turkish, New Zealand and Australian perspectives, and The Diggers’ Requiem co-commissioned by the Australian War Memorial and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, performed in France by a French and German orchestra with Australian soloists, and in Australia by the Australian War Memorial Orchestra and Choir, made up of Australians, both civilian and military, including many of German or French heritage or who had trained in those nations., in particular Metal Manufactures Ltd.
Cristina Russo soprano, Chris Latham violin,
Timothy Young, Laurence Matheson and Caroline Almonte piano
with diary narrations read by Carrillo Gantner
TICKETS - by invitation - please contact the Flowers of War if you would like to attend.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 0408 440 426 or by email to team@theflowersofwar.org
Cristina will be performing the title role in this sublime 17th century opera by Monteverdi. Power, sex, tragedy, brutality. A hedonistic and decadent world, with bawdy humour, poly-sexuality, indecency, narcissism - and gaslighting.
Do humans learn from past mistakes? In 2019 as in 1643, individual whims and values associated with status form a lethal combination. Directed by Emmy-award winner, Gale Edwards.
For tickets, click here.
Cristina will be performing the title role in this sublime 17th century opera by Monteverdi. Power, sex, tragedy, brutality. A hedonistic and decadent world, with bawdy humour, poly-sexuality, indecency, narcissism - and gaslighting.
Do humans learn from past mistakes? In 2019 as in 1643, individual whims and values associated with status form a lethal combination. Directed by Emmy-award winner, Gale Edwards.
For tickets, click here.
"Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built, out of longing great wonders have been willed." -Nick Cave
After a successful debut at the Woodend Winter Arts Festival, Victorian Opera presents a special performance of this concert curated and performed by Cristina at Horti Hall.
Songs of Love & Loss is an evening exploring the nature of longing and sorrow; an inescapable and painful part of the human condition, and yet great wonders and joys inevitably emerge from the ashes of heartache.
Soprano Cristina Russo travels through musical time to explore the nature of yearning and sorrow. Can we avoid it? Would life be better without it? Cristina draws from her own Italian heritage to explore these eternal questions, turning to such diverse sources as Alessandro Scarlatti, Luciano Berio, Stefano Landi, Nina Simone, Henry Purcell, the poetry of the great Michelangelo, Jeff Buckley and finally Nick Cave.
Tickets available soon.
Cristina will be singing the soprano solos of Schubert’s second Mass, a work inspired by the composer’s divine gift for melody. Utterly gorgeous and infused with a gentle mystery, the Mass in G is a pure ray of heaven on Earth.
Polyphonic Voices directed by Michael Fulcher and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.
Tickets available here
Cristina will be singing the soprano solos of Schubert’s second Mass, a work inspired by the composer’s divine gift for melody. Utterly gorgeous and infused with a gentle mystery, the Mass in G is a pure ray of heaven on Earth.
Polyphonic Voices directed by Michael Fulcher and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.
Tickets available here
Cristina will be singing the soprano solos of Schubert’s second Mass, a work inspired by the composer’s divine gift for melody. Utterly gorgeous and infused with a gentle mystery, the Mass in G is a pure ray of heaven on Earth.
Polyphonic Voices directed by Michael Fulcher and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.
Tickets available here
"Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built, out of longing great wonders have been willed." -Nick Cave
Debuting at the Woodend Winter Arts Festival, this programme presents an afternoon of music exploring the nature of longing and sorrow; an inescapable and painful part of the human condition, and yet great wonders and joys inevitably emerge from the ashes of heartache.
Soprano Cristina Russo and pianist Konrad Olszewski travel through musical time to explore the nature of yearning and sorrow. Can we avoid it? Would life be better without it? Cristina draws from her own Italian heritage to explore these eternal questions, turning to such diverse sources as Alessandro Scarlatti, Luciano Berio, Stefano Landi, Nina Simone, Henry Purcell, the poetry of the great Michelangelo, Jeff Buckley and finally Nick Cave.
For tickets, click the link below.
"Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built, out of longing great wonders have been willed." -Nick Cave
Debuting at the Woodend Winter Arts Festival, this programme presents an afternoon of music exploring the nature of longing and sorrow; an inescapable and painful part of the human condition, and yet great wonders and joys inevitably emerge from the ashes of heartache.
Soprano Cristina Russo and pianist Konrad Olszewski travel through musical time to explore the nature of yearning and sorrow. Can we avoid it? Would life be better without it? Cristina draws from her own Italian heritage to explore these eternal questions, turning to such diverse sources as Alessandro Scarlatti, Luciano Berio, Stefano Landi, Nina Simone, Henry Purcell, the poetry of the great Michelangelo, Jeff Buckley and finally Nick Cave.
For tickets, click the link below.
Cristina will lead Renaissance band La Compañia as soprano soloist in this celebration of Florentine music during the House of Medici.
Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance, was a thriving metropolis of beauty, art and imagination where celebrations were grand and the street festivals spectacular. The famed musicians of the Republic, the Piffari were central to aristocratic entertainments and to the sumptuous carnival festivities where all classes of Florentines gathered to join the masked performers parading through the streets singing and dancing the canzoni da ballo.
Cristina joins Victorian Opera in their new production of Wagner’s Parsifal at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda.
Immerse yourself in the legend of the Holy Grail and the knights who protect it, and witness the most beautiful quest for redemption in the literature of opera.
From the prelude of Parsifal onwards, you will be mesmerised by music of sacred dimensions; a testament to the mystical power of harmony. Wagner traversed unknown territories of musical writing with his mythical odyssey, shaping an incomparable world that enthralled composers as diverse as Sibelius, Mahler and Debussy, and later inspired major film score composers.
Cristina joins Victorian Opera in their new production of Wagner’s Parsifal at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda.
Immerse yourself in the legend of the Holy Grail and the knights who protect it, and witness the most beautiful quest for redemption in the literature of opera.
From the prelude of Parsifal onwards, you will be mesmerised by music of sacred dimensions; a testament to the mystical power of harmony. Wagner traversed unknown territories of musical writing with his mythical odyssey, shaping an incomparable world that enthralled composers as diverse as Sibelius, Mahler and Debussy, and later inspired major film score composers.
Cristina joins Victorian Opera in their new production of Wagner’s Parsifal at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda.
Immerse yourself in the legend of the Holy Grail and the knights who protect it, and witness the most beautiful quest for redemption in the literature of opera.
From the prelude of Parsifal onwards, you will be mesmerised by music of sacred dimensions; a testament to the mystical power of harmony. Wagner traversed unknown territories of musical writing with his mythical odyssey, shaping an incomparable world that enthralled composers as diverse as Sibelius, Mahler and Debussy, and later inspired major film score composers.
Cristina will be performing the soprano solos of Handel’s Messiah with the Gloriana Chamber Choir conducted by Andrew Raiskums.
Countertenor: Max Riebl
Tenor: Timothy Reynolds
Bass-Baritone: Nicholas Dinopoulos
with full baroque orchestra.
Tickets available here
