After the roaring success of last year’s Victoriana!, the Warden, Fellows, and Union of St Paul’s College are commanded by Her Majesty Queen Victoria to invite you to Victoriana! 2026.
Victoriana! is Australia’s longest-running theatrical production and one of its most enduring and endearing. This year, Victoriana! celebrates its 62nd anniversary and brings back all your favourite numbers, as well as a few exciting new treats—concluding with fireworks to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory! For a limited four nights only, get your tickets fast before you miss out on this musical spectacle like no other!
Sherry at 7.00pm, and dinner served at 7.30pm sharp! Superlative divers entertainment and glorious pyrotechnics to follow!
Carriages at midnight—wheelbarrows at 3.00am.
To see Richard Tognetti and the ACO perform Beethoven is to experience a ‘magnificent unanimity’* of vision, drama and expressive force. In this majestic and uplifting finale to our 2026 National Concert Season, Richard and an expanded ACO perform an all-Beethoven program that takes audiences on a journey through creation and wonder, beginning with the dramatic Coriolan Overture before culminating in the master craftsman’s Pastoral Symphony.
The Latvian Radio Choir is not just a choir: it is a sound laboratory, its members always ready to explore new work and new ways of singing. Its repertoire encompasses music from the Renaissance to now.
Genevieve Lacey is a fearless artist who challenges us to rethink the recorder, the classical music concert experience and, indeed, how we listen.
Together these pioneering musicians present a program of music which looks to the sky in search of beauty, wonder and things with wings.
Some of Australia's leading musicians will gather on the morning of 29 August and, by 3pm, perform Bach's St John Passion from beginning to end.
From the cold, clear quiet of a wintery morning, comes the music of an ancient landscape: the snow-strewn mountains and shores along the Baltic and Nordic seas. Richard Tognetti directs this extraordinary collaboration between the international vocal phenomenon Trio Mediæval, jazz trumpeter Arve Henriksen and the ACO.
Cellist, conductor and creative visionary Nicolas Altstaedt is the kind of artist who makes music you thought you knew, new. In 2026, he brings his always exciting, always beautiful insights to music of the seventeenth century, with the help of lutenist Thomas Dunford, the charismatic ringleader of baroque superband Ensemble Jupiter. When these two international superstars team up for a night of musical mischief, anything could happen.
Enjoy the splendours of the Baroque as we present works of JS Bach’s uplifting Ascension Oratorio and his lyrical motet Komm, Jesu, Komm, alongside the glories of French music: Charpentier’s iconic Te Deum and Campra’s joyous motet, Exaudiat te, Dominus.
Join the Sydney Cantata Project for a special concert on period instruments at St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Newtown, featuring two of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most beloved sacred cantatas: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140 and Herr Gott, dich loben wir BWV 16.
From the watchman’s call announcing the arrival of the heavenly Bridegroom to joyful songs of thanksgiving at the beginning of a new year, this programme celebrates faith, hope, and gratitude through some of Bach’s most inspiring music.
Join the Sydney Cantata Project for a special concert performed on period instruments in the beautiful setting of Living Hope Anglican Church (St Martin’s Killara).
This programme brings together three works connected by themes of joy, mortality, and devotion: Bach’s cantatas Meine Seel erhebt den Herren BWV 10 and Erwünschtes Freudenlicht BWV 184, alongside his transcription of Johann Christoph Bach’s profound motet Es ist nun aus mit meinem Leben.
Join the Sydney Cantata Project for an afternoon of Bach, performed on period instruments in the resonant acoustic of St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Newtown. This concert features three rarely performed cantatas—BWV 118 O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV 196 Der Herr denket an uns, and BWV 25 Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe—each revealing a different context and function within Bach’s sacred output.
