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ROBERT GAY

Robert Gay is one of 's most popular music lecturers. He has taught at 's Centre for Continuing Education since , presenting more than eighty different courses and study days on diverse aspects of music history and opera. His exceptional interests include: the operas of Handel and Mozart; music of the period between the French Revolution and the Revolution in ; the tune of Berlioz, Bruckner and Mahler; the operas of Verdi, and Wagner's epic 'Ring' cycle. Having been a Lieder singer in a previous animation, Robert has a particular awareness of the great

HANDEL: MESSIAH Comes to Sydney Opera House Next Month

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Two hundred and eighty years since it was first performed in Dublin in , Handel's Messiah remains one of the most loved pieces of classical music in the world, performed by hundreds of thousands of singers around the globe every Christmas.

This December it comes alive in spectacular form, presented by Australia's leading choral organisation on the country's most famous concert stage, conducted by the inimitable Brett Weymark.

With a sublime cast of soloists including Lorina Gora, Ashlyn Tymms - making her Sydney Opera Residence debut, Nicholas Jones, and Morgan Pearse, and one of the most potent Christmas choirs Sydney has ever seen, it's going to be a mighty season of performances.

Join Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for this momentous performance of Messiah - the first in Sydney Opera House's newly refurbished Concert Hall, 8pm Thursday December 8, 1pm Saturday & Sunday December 10 and

This year's concerts mark years since Sydney Philharmonia Choi

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