A week after Napoleon invades Russia, Ludwig van Beethoven almost certainly says “Yes,
tonight Josephine” to the love of his life, the unhappily married and recently jilted but
socially impossible match, Countess Jozefina Brunszvik. Three days later he pours forth - with
the pencil (!) he souvenired from the tryst - the 10 little pages of hopeless devotion that have spawned thousands of pages of academic speculation. He hastily concludes in order to make the next post, then scrunches them in his pocket for the rest of his life.

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Beethoven's Eighth

Berry Uniting Church

Bowral Memorial Hall

National Gallery of Australia

Glasshouse Port Macquarie

Rathmines Theatre

City Recital Hall

Metropolis kicks off with Holly Harrison’s urban fanfare Hi-Vis in which the neon machine activity of roadworks is re-imagined through electronic dance music, bootscooting and disco!

Composing Australia Night One

Melbourne Recital Centre

Internationally renowned Wagner interpreter Simone Young returns to the San Francisco Symphony to conduct a can’t-miss symphonic synopsis of Wagner’s massive Ring cycle, featuring her own selection of orchestral excerpts. In her serenely invigorating orchestral piece The Space Between Stars, Sydney-based composer Ella Macens “wanted to convey the energy and magic of our night sky.” Set in a single searing movement, Saint-Saens’s Cello Concerto No. 1 is bursting with sonic surprises—a music-box minuet here, a sudden silence there—as well as the requisite solo pyrotechnics, taken here by the acclaimed French cellist Gautier Capuçon.

Simone Young & Gautier Capuçon

Davies Symphony Hall

Ella Macens

Events

Upcoming events

17 - 19 Apr, 2026

Simone Young & Gautier Capuçon · San Francisco Symphony

Past events

Oct 30 - Nov 8, 2025

Beethoven's Eighth · Australian Haydn Ensemble

Apr 16, 2025

Composing Australia Night One · Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

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