Announcements
Deborah Jones in The Australian praised The Barbarian’s “luscious score” and called it a ”ravishing piece of music.” According to the Tasmanian Times, “The Barbarians shook City Hall last night.” Read more and see new production photos here.
This profile of Constantine Koukias by Leta Keens was featured in the January 14-15 2012 issues of The Weekend Australian:
“IN Constantine Koukias’s new opera The Barbarians, the audience at Hobart’s cavernous City Hall will face each other “as at a tennis court”, looking across a stage area covered in six tonnes of salt and pebbles.
The libretto, based on the work of Greek Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy, is in modern Greek with bilingual narration, and the band of nine instruments includes “very unusual” hand percussion, a contrabassoon and a range of keyboards – harpsichord, celeste, Hammond organ – all amplified.
The musical language from the five principal singers, says composer and director Koukias, “is written extremely lyrically, and is non-synchronous, meaning they sing with tapes or effects and are not synched with the musicians. That gives them another world of possibilities, of dramatic tension.” CONTINUE READING ENTIRE ARTICLE ON THIS SITE
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The program uses video-conference technology to deliver free music tuition to 10 young Tasmanian students living in geographically remote areas. READ MORE.
IHOS has invited US Producer Peter McDowell of Peter McDowell Arts Consulting to lead his workshop, “The Basics of Self Promotion for Performing Artists”in Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) on Friday, January 20, 2012, from 10AM – 5PM.
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The Basics of Self-Promotion for Performing Artists is a workshop designed to give musicians, composers, dancers, or other performing artists, simple but powerful tools and strategies for marketing and publicising their careers, creations and performances.
IHOS Music Theatre & Opera is pleased to announce the World Premiere of The Barbarians at MONA FOMA. Complete information about the production is here. Buy tickets at MONA FOMA’s web site.
IHOS 21st Birthday Party - Sunday 22nd January 2012- 9pm – 1 am at City Hall Hobart. Following the last performance of The Barbarians. We hope all friends and guests of IHOS can join us to celebrate the past 21 years. Let us know if you can make it!