SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:

Please be advised that due to the development of COVID-19 in Australia, all performances of Notre-Dame concert series are now cancelled. The safety of our audience and employees is Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s greatest priority.

Please keep checking in on our latest response to COVID-19 by visiting our website here or get them delivered directly into your inbox by signing up to our mailing list here. Make sure to also follow us on Facebook and Instagram for performance updates. In the context of current events, we do suggest waiting until closer to that concert to book your tickets.

We will endeavour to contact everyone who has purchased ticket(s) in the coming weeks.

On behalf of Artistic Director Paul Dyer and Managing Director Bruce Applebaum, staff and musicians, we look forward to joining you in the concert halls again as soon as we can do so safely.

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Program
Featuring music by French composers Campra, Lully, Rameau, Rebel and more.

Concert duration approximately 85 minutes, with no interval. Please note concert duration is approximate only and subject to change.

Artists
Alana Valentine Script, Director
Paul Dyer Conductor, harpsichord, original concept
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Brandenburg Choir

When Notre-Dame de Paris was partially consumed by fire in April 2019, the French people grieved and the world ached over the loss. Notre-Dame is a narrative concert inspired by Our Lady of Paris and commemorates eight centuries of music stirred by the masterpiece of Gothic architecture that is both the soul of France and an artistic embodiment of human achievement.

Battered, dilapidated and restored, witness to revolution and miracles - this is a celebration of Notre-Dame as a centre for musical innovation and choral transcendence curated by Artistic Director Paul Dyer and woven around cleverly dramatised moments by award-winning playwright and director Alana Valentine. Notre-Dame will transport you into the past, move you into the pain of the present, and affirm hope in the certain resurrection of both the Cathedral and the human spirit.

Alana Valentine