Sydney Opera House Set to Feature MY COUNTRY AUSTRALIA, 10/31

Come along and celebrate what it means to be Australian with Gavin Lockley and friends on Wednesday 31 October in a one off concert affectionately titled MY COUNTRY AUSTRALIA.

MY COUNTRY AUSTRALIA is the third in a series of musical settings of the great Australian poets and follows on from the success in 2009 of Lockley’s, Ballads of the Bush and Symphony of Australia which had its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House in 2007.
Lockley has selected poems he has loved since childhood and put them to music, reflecting his belief that the great Australian poets and balladeers should be lifted off the page and performed to as wide an audience as possible in order to preserve our cultural history. As Lockley says “In the tradition of Mahler’s ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’ and Berlioz’s “Les Nuits D’ete’ these orchestral songs express the colour and excitement of the great stories that shaped the Australian folk consciousness.”

MY COUNTRY AUSTRALIA includes Clancy of the Overflow, The Convict’s Ballad - a set of verses inspired by the story of Richard Morgan, Mulga Bill’s Bicycle; The Man From Ironbark; Banjo Paterson’s A Singer of the Bush; Cuthbertson’s The Australian Sunrise and Jon English and orchestra performing Waltzing Mathilda.

The concert is being held to celebrate the 85th birthday of The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.

TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY 10 SEPTEMBER

Where: Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
When: Wednesday 31 October at 8pm
Tickets: Premium $119.00 | Conc. $109; A Reserve $99.00 | Conc. $89;

B Reserve $79.00 | Conc. $69

Bookings: sydneyoperahouse.com or 02 9250 7777