Tue March 04 2025 - Sat March 08 2025, various times
Multiple locations
- Tue March 04 2025
- Wed March 05 2025
- Thu March 06 2025
Various pricesOpera Queensland
In 2025 the Brisbane Bel Canto Festival is returning for its second year from March 4–8. The program of concerts will cover music from the beginnings of operatic song in Italy to contemporary Australian works, celebrating the art of beautiful singing. Leading the festival on March 4 and 8 is Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Cinderella), centering around the compassionate, generous and kind heart that beats within the titular character. Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University will be participating in the festival once again, with a presentation of contemporary Australian secular hymns with lyrics by some of Australia’s finest writers, Andrew Ford’s Red Dirt Hymns.
The University of Queensland School of Music is joining the festival for the first time with Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass), which will see pianists Liam Viney and Anna Grinberg accompanied by a mass choir in The Cathedral of St Stephen, as well as emerging Brisbane ensemble One Equal Music, presenting The Birth of Bel Canto. Plus, on March 7, Opera Queensland is bringing back its beloved Long Lunch, curated by Mildura chef Stefano de Pieri. Stefano and the OQ team are promising a perfect symphony of flavours and songs, celebrating Queensland and Italy in a way that only an Italian-Australian chef as renowned as Stefano could.