Join us for an unforgettable evening as ARIA Award-nominated future-soul superstar Ngaiire graces the Sydney Opera House with her genre-defying concert, accompanied by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and GODTET. This special performance, titled "PRESENT FIREFLIES WITH GODTET," is set to take place in the iconic Concert Hall on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at 8:00pm.

After a sold-out performance on the Forecourt during the Sydney Opera House's 50th anniversary celebrations in 2022, Ngaiire returns to captivate audiences once again. Described by Rolling Stone as a "near perfect slice of hushed future soul," Ngaiire will blend her unique fusion of electronic future-soul, gospel, and R&B pop with the powerful sounds of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. This concert also celebrates the release of a new live album from her previous Forecourt concert, featuring songs that have defined her career.

The evening will commence with an opening performance by GODTET, a driving force in Sydney’s local scene, presenting their GODTET STRINGS project alongside members of the Sydney Symphony. Led by Australian instrumentalist and producer Godriguez, GODTET is known for their meditative, improvisational jazz that has captivated audiences nationwide.

Conductor Nicholas Buc will lead the ensemble through a setlist that includes both GODTET and Ngaiire's hits, promising an evening of mesmerizing music and soulful melodies.

Tickets for this one-of-a-kind concert start from $50, with premium options and concessions available. Adult, student, and under 35 ticket prices vary, with a booking fee of $8.95 applicable. Additionally, attendees have the exclusive opportunity to purchase a vinyl album of Ngaiire and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's live performance at the Sydney Opera House, available for collection at the concert.

Don't miss this extraordinary collaboration at the Sydney Opera House, where music and soul meet symphony. Reserve your seats now for an evening of unforgettable performances.

Ngaiire & The Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Sydney Opera House

Indulge in the intoxicating richness of Russian Romanticism with these performances of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5, with its passionate melodies and beautiful orchestration.

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

2024 is the 150th anniversary of Schoenberg’s birth and also the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue – the perfect moment to present this poignant story of memory, trauma, friendship, humour and hope, and above all, the power of music.

When George Met Arnold

Rich and colourful expressions of America shine through in this heart-warming program.

Dvořák & Bernstein

Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang brings her ‘vivid and beautiful playing’ (New York Times) to a program that excites on every level.

Joyce Yang Performs Grieg’s Piano Concerto

Joyce Yang's performances have been praised as 'extraordinary' and 'kaleidoscopic' (Los Angeles Times), and for this solo recital the Grammy-nominated pianist has selected an evocative and thrilling program that demonstrates the full range of her virtuosity and ‘wondrous sense of colour’ (San Francisco Classical Voice).

Joyce Yang in Recital

City Recital Hall

A rich new collaboration between composer Nigel Westlake, singer/songwriter Lior and language activist Lou Bennett, Ngapa William Cooper is a tribute to the life of Yorta Yorta activist William Cooper.

Ngapa William Cooper

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra Performs Ngapa William Cooper

Harold Lobb Concert Hall

The Art House

Be swept away as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra presents the music of beloved Australian composer Nigel Westlake, including the award-winning song cycle Compassion featuring singer-songwriter Lior.

The Sydney Symphony performs Compassion

Port Macquarie

Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall

Manning Entertainment Centre

Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska conducts this program of works by her homeland’s greatest composers – Sibelius’ extraordinary Fifth Symphony, Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus and Kaija Saariaho’s Harp Concerto featuring soloist Xavier de Maistre.

Dalia Stasevska Conducts Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony

In a unique presentation, the superb Australian String Quartet will join the Sydney Symphony to perform the mesmerising Absolute Jest by American composer John Adams, a work that takes small fragments of Beethoven’s music and develops them into something new, and newly inspiring.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra With The Australian String Quartet

Delight in this special one-off performance of sparkling Baroque gems as acclaimed early music specialist Erin Helyard leads the exciting young musicians of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellowship Program in works by Telemann and Graupner.

The Splendour of the Baroque

Shostakovich’s fifteen string quartets are some of the finest works for small ensemble, and alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven, are indispensable.

Vaughan Williams & Shostakovich

Experience the iconic film music of John Williams performed live in concert by the Sydney Symphony.

The Music Of John Williams

The dazzling musical fireworks of Shostakovich’s Festive Overture are pure entertainment, and the perfect way to open this program of triumphant, witty and brilliant virtuosity from two extraordinary soloists, conducted by the exciting Giordano Bellincampi.

Alexander Melnikov performs Shostakovich

With three Romantic masterpieces performed by a Russian master, this concert is a treat for anyone who loves the piano.

Alexander Melnikov in Recital

This concert, directed by the brilliant Erin Helyard, is a celebration of the spectacular.

Handel’s Water Music

Like much of his work, the Water Music was an 18th-century show stopper. Commissioned by King George I for a concert on the Thames, all of London turned out to see Handel and his orchestra floating up and down the river on a barge, playing this exciting, ceremonial music. It’s a foot-tapping party on and off stage – and the music was such a hit the King demanded an immediate encore!

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Handel & Sparkling Baroque

Goulburn Performing Arts Centre

This phenomenal instrument is a conduit for drama. And when all the stops are out, it’s electrifying – especially when in the presence of the Sydney Opera House Grand Organ, the world’s largest mechanical tracker-action pipe organ, consisting of an extraordinary 10,244 pipes.

Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony

With her natural energy, infectious personality and talent to spare, she was the first saxophonist to reach the finals of BBC Young Musician and the youngest-ever soloist to perform at the Last Night of the Proms. An extraordinary talent, she has already been awarded honours for services to music.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra With Jess Gillam

Czech composer Leoš Janáček wrote his wind sextet Mládí (Youth) when he was 70, capturing the youthful mood characteristic of his works from this period.

Janáček, Ravel & Piazzolla

In one of the most innovative and energising works for 2024, composer and pianist Paul Grabowsky brings the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Yolŋu songmen Daniel Ngukurr Boy Wilfred and David Yipininy Wilfred together in a work that celebrates the musical traditions of the Ngukurr people in Arnhem Land.

Wata: A Gathering For Songmen, Improvising Soloists And Orchestra

With the most famous four notes in history, the opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony has captivated the world for more than 200 years. Its power has never diminished.

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

The iconic blast of the horns at the beginning of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony is the first of many power-packed moments in this program of dramatic contrasts.

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony

He’d barely left the stage before being signed up for a return visit. In the meantime, the critical raves have continued: ‘technically dazzling' (New York Times); 'pinpoint intonation and tone… masterly' (LA Times).

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto is the ultimate star vehicle, equal parts richly expressive and dizzyingly virtuosic. In Hadelich’s hands, and with his 1744 Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin, every ounce of Hadelich’s huge artistry will shine through in this masterpiece.

Augustin Hadelich Performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto

One of the most exciting violinists performing today, Augustin Hadelich has created a rich concert experience displaying the virtuosity demanded across the centuries, with this selection of truly captivating pieces for violin.

Augustin Hadelich And The Sydney Symphony Orchestra

A winner with audiences and critics alike, DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon is a captivating and original story that combines humour, fire-breathing action, and epic adventure!

How to Train Your Dragon in Concert

Beethoven’s Septet was one of his most successful early works, an instant hit that found its way into the drawing rooms of the Viennese public.

Beethoven’s Septet

The legendary Australian band bring their beloved tunes and new sounds to a musically immersive orchestral experience with the Sydney Symphony.

The Cat Empire With The Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Her immediate response was to write this powerful Requiem, to ease the troubled spirit of the land and to amplify the importance of our shared history.

Experience the colossal sound of Eumeralla in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall in this milestone Sydney premiere. With a full symphony orchestra and massed choirs – including the voices of Dhungala Children’s Choir – and sung entirely in the ancient dialects of the Gunditjmara people, Cheetham Fraillon has created a musical work that is a compelling call for peace and reconciliation.

Eumeralla, A War Requiem For Peace By Deborah Cheetham Fraillon

Romance emerges in every tempo. It can be swift and bold, or a slow burn. Sometimes it is thrillingly insistent, as in the opening movement of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony.

Karen Gomyo Performs Dvořák’s Violin Concerto

Sir Donald Runnicles is a master concert-maker. His concerts are always fascinating combinations – and here he conducts three beautiful French masterpieces by Claude Debussy and Maurice Duruflé.

Donald Runnicles Conducts The Duruflé Requiem

Across four breathtaking movements, Donald Runnicles will once again create a vivid, spellbinding musical picture.

It’s the fourth movement that truly steals hearts. Mahler set to music a poem that depicts a child’s vision of heaven, where angels play and beauty reigns supreme. It is the ideal moment for Ying Fang, the soprano with a voice ‘that can stop time, pure and rich and open and consummately expressive’ (Financial Times), to make her Sydney debut.

Donald Runnicles Conducts Mahler’s Fourth Symphony

Night time is a charged time, liberated from the routine of daylight duties. Perhaps that’s why composers seem to find life after dark so full of magic and possibility.

Transfigured Night

The Sydney Symphony returns to The Joan in Penrith for a brilliant concert featuring three pieces that capture the sensuous depth and drama of night.

Mozart and Poetic Inspirations

Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre

There are countless chamber works written for the best-known instruments, but what about the more obscure ones?

Berlioz & Ravel

The Roaring Twenties was a time of heady optimism in Paris. Artists and composers of every genre flocked to the city, and this melting pot of influences saw rules broken and every boundary gleefully crossed in pursuit of new and exciting styles of music and art.

George Gershwin’s An American in Paris

What is the enigma in Elgar’s Enigma Variations? Many have speculated over the past 125 years, but the power and allure of this piece is no mystery.

Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Nobuyuki Tsujii is ‘the definition of virtuosity’ (The Observer). Winner of the prestigious Van Cliburn Piano Competition at just 20, this acclaimed pianist has been blind since birth and learns scores by ear, giving him an intimate and unique connection to every piece he performs.

Nobuyuki Tsujii in Recital

Chopin’s glittering First Piano Concerto captures the powerful feelings of youth. Written when he was 20, it’s a bold, unselfconscious journey of the heart and one of just two works he composed for orchestra.

Ingrid Fliter performs Chopin

A striking and electrifying symphony, it was nicknamed ‘Jupiter’ by a music publisher who said its opening chords recalled the king of the gods and his thunderbolts. Here Mozart paints on a broader canvas than ever before, perfecting the Classical style and looking forward to the Romantic era.

Simone Young conducts Mozart’s Jupiter

A high point of artistic invention, Wagner’s Ring Cycle is one of the greatest works of music. Its drama and energy are captured by its signature moment The Ride of the Valkyries, which has become the most quoted musical passage from the entire world of opera. It is surrounded by writing of ravishing beauty and intensity which captures Brünnhilde’s bold defiance, Wotan’s shuddering wrath and Siegmund’s heroism.

Simone Young Conducts Die Walküre

From its compelling rhythmic drive to its stunning, awesome soundworld, The Rite continues to electrify more than a century after its premiere. And Vasily Petrenko, the celebrated music director of the Royal Philharmonic, is the work’s ideal interpreter. BBC Music Magazine hailed his recent recording of it as ‘a searing account’ with ‘a visceral energy’ – now it’s Sydney’s turn to hear his phenomenal realisation of Stravinsky’s mesmerising score.

Vasily Petrenko conducts The Rite of Spring

Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, an 8-year-old boy who has been accidentally left behind when his family leaves for Christmas vacation and defends his home from two bungling thieves (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern). Also starring Catherine O’Hara and John Candy and nominated for two Academy Awards® for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, Home Alone is hilarious, heart-warming holiday fun for the entire family!

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

May 4, 2024

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8 - 11 May, 2024

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

May 15, 2024

When George Met Arnold

17 - 18 May, 2024

Dvořák & Bernstein

18 - 19 May, 2024

Joyce Yang Performs Grieg’s Piano Concerto

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