Midday
We explore why classical music lovers earn more than anyone else, and we hear music from the Gramophone shortlist for instrumental category - Beethoven’s moonlight sonata.
Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820 Photo: Public Domain
1pm Real life partners sing Romeo and Juliet
Soprano Madison Nonoa Photo: Supplied
Real life partners and award winning opera singers Madison Nonoa and Filipe Manu are taking to the stage to play star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, before they leave Auckland to resume their studies at the Guildhall in London.
Madison Nanoa and Filipe Manu in rehearsal for Bellini’s Romeo & Juliet for Opera Factory Photo: Supplied
1.30pm Pettman DARE Fellowships give musicians a head start
Blaire White and Callum Blackmore who have both had Fellowships to work with Opera North and NZ Opera Photo: Supplied
Callum Blackmore and Blaire White talk about getting scholarships for a year of practical experience at Opera North in Leeds. Callum has just completed his fully funded post-graduate diploma there and Blaire is about to start her fellowship. It’s the only project of its kind which mixes practical experience in a professional opera company with University study.
2pm
We continue listening to interesting Hungarian Music. Today it’s Joachim’s Violin concerto no 2, performed by Elmar Oliveira with the London Phil, conducted by Leon Botstein.
Joseph Joachim Photo: Joseph Joachim drawing: Adolph Menzel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
