{"id":11190,"date":"2026-05-14T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/11190\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:06:08","slug":"australian-world-orchestra-melbourne-and-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/11190\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian World Orchestra Melbourne and Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/awo2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"awo2026\"   class=\"wp-image-12543\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Following the resounding success of our 2025 season of Mahler\u2019s 4th and 5th Symphonies, AWO\u2019s co-founder, Alexander Briger, returns with Australia\u2019s finest for an unforgettable birthday\u00a0celebration and 2026 program.<\/p>\n<p>The AWO celebrates its 15th Anniversary\u00a0with two 20th-century masterpieces and the\u00a0world premiere\u00a0of\u00a0Songs for the Stranger\u00a0\u2014 a song cycle commission by the Australian World Orchestra, inspired by the Opera\u00a0Eucalyptus\u00a0composed by\u00a0Jonathan Mills,\u00a0featuring\u00a0award winning Australian tenor\u00a0Michael Petruccelli.<\/p>\n<p>Stravinsky\u2019s\u00a0Petrushka\u00a0bursts with colour and vitality, its tragic puppet hero glowing through dazzling orchestration.\u00a0Mills\u2019s\u00a0Songs for the Stranger\u00a0fuses modern textures with emotional immediacy, evoking the Australian soundscape.\u00a0Finally,\u00a0Shostakovich\u2019s Tenth Symphony\u00a0\u2014 written in Stalin\u2019s shadow \u2014 surges from darkness to blazing triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Three forms of art told through music;\u00a0ballet, opera, and\u00a0symphony. A night of brilliance, beauty and breathtaking orchestral storytelling \u2014 a true celebration of the AWO performing at its peak.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne: Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall on 19 August 2026<br \/>Sydney:\u00a0Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall on 20 August 2026<\/p>\n<p>australianworldorchestra.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the resounding success of our 2025 season of Mahler\u2019s 4th and 5th Symphonies, AWO\u2019s co-founder, Alexander Briger,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[247],"class_list":{"0":"post-11190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sydney","8":"tag-sydney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}