Over the last century good Australian tenors have been something like hen’s teeth. So first to hear Stuart Skelton as Peter Grimes, and then just a couple of weeks later Dominic Walsh in Schubert’s great song cycle, Winterreise, has been a double treat.
I was lucky enough to catch the young Mr Walsh in a private
run-through at the Peckham home of his accompanist, the fine Schubertian
pianist (and another Australian), Geoffrey Saba. Dominic Walsh was an
Australian Music Foundation award-winner in 2012 and Geoffrey Saba has been
mentoring him. We the privileged audience numbered just five.
Walsh and Saba are taking this saddest of sad works of lost
love to Australia, with Saba then going on to Indonesia, so if you want to catch it, this is where they
will be:
Melbourne:
November 23, 24
Stanley
Park, near Newcastle: November 30Sydney: December 1 (Saba solo)
Medan, Indonesia: December 6 (Saba solo)
Surabaya, Indonesia: December 10, 11 (Saba solo)
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