Touring the World

More than 20 years after its ground-breaking Asian tour, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is set to take 66 musicians to China and South Korea in October 2019.

Circus Oz had the privilege of touring their show Precarious to remote communities on the Tiwi Islands in June that enabled cultural exchange and community engagement.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has renewed its historic cultural partnership with the Government of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for another three years, with plans for a fourth Youth Music camp in August.

Ballet.id's collaboration with Jakarta Arts Council to present Historia: The Journey of Ballet in Indonesia, featured a performance by West Australian Ballet (WAB) and choreography by former WAB Demi-Soloist Christopher Hill, in celebration of Indonesia’s 174 year long history with the art form.

For the first time in almost 50 years, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is touring the United States of America, showcasing their artistry to new audiences in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Worcester (MA) and New York City this October.

The Australian Ballet’s 2019 New York City tour has been a wonderful success. They began their short season at the legendary Joyce Theater last Wednesday night with a Gala Program and then performed a 7-show season of works by three of our resident choreographers, taking our final curtain call on Sunday evening before heading home to Australia.

In June Sydney Dance Company will embark on an extensive European tour to Austria, Finland, Poland and Spain with Rafael Bonachela’s critically acclaimed ab [intra].

A co-production between The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Solaris is opening at Malthouse Theatre in June before transferring to The Lyceum later in September.

The Australian Ballet is heading to the United States to present three original works by our resident choreographers, including one world premiere, at The Joyce Theater in New York City as part of a two-week celebration of Australian dance.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) has returned from a two-week tour of North America, during which it travelled from the west to east coasts to perform eight critically acclaimed concerts over 15 days.

This May, 12 dancers and three resident choreographers from The Australian Ballet will head to New York to present three original works, including one world premiere, at The Joyce Theater as part of a two-week celebration of Australian dance.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Government of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia have renewed their historic cultural partnership for an additional three years to 2021.

STC is thrilled to announce that The Secret River will tour the United Kingdom in August and September this year, with dates at The King’s Theatre in Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh International Festival and at the National Theatre in London.

Following their sell-out first season in-residence at London’s Barbican Centre last year, ACO announce their 2019 season at the Barbican Centre’s International Associate Ensemble at Milton Court.

Bangarra travelled to Canada and the United States in October and November, to present the company’s 27th international tour, in its 30th anniversary year. Complementing their on-stage performances, the company delivered some of the largest First Nations community engagement experiences in its 30-year history.

Nicola Gunn's Working with Children, originally commissioned and produced by Melbourne Theatre Company, travels to Bit Teatergarasjer in Norway.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra will return to the United States in 2019 for the first time in three years.

"The fleet, bold performance these impressive Australian musicians gave would have sounded great almost anywhere." -The New York Times

London’s iconic Southbank Centre to present Windmill Theatre Co and State Theatre Company’s Rumpelstiltskin in Queen Elizabeth Hall as centrepiece 2018 Christmas show.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) have returned from a triumphant first season in-residence at London’s Barbican Centre, cementing their international reputation as the world’s most dynamic and innovative chamber orchestra.

Minister for Communications and the Arts, Senator Mitch Fifield has welcomed the signing of a new four-year partnership agreement between the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Singapore Symphony Group from 2019 to 2022.

A group of talented ASO musicians jetted off to China in August to perform The Bush Concertin the 34th China Harbin Summer Music Festival.

State Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk announes Queensland Ballet is taking its acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to China this November.

Bangarra are setting off on an extensive international tour throughout Oct and Nov. The tour will include performances at Saitama Arts Theater in Japan and a multi-city tour across India including a major free outdoor event at the Qutub Minar in New Delhi.

The Australian Ballet has announced that the company will tour to Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai in October 2018 with David McAllister’s dazzling production of The Sleeping Beauty.

The West Australian Symphony Orchestra Chorus will embark on a 12-day tour of China, with performances in Shanghai, Nanjing and Beijing.

Ambassador Richard Court AC announces in Tokyo the Australia now program, presenting the best of Australian innovation, lifestyle and creativity in Japan from April to November 2018.

London’s iconic Southbank Centre to present Windmill Theatre Co and State Theatre Company South Australia’s Rumpelstiltskin in Queen Elizabeth Hall as centrepiece 2018 Christmas show.

​In April, Sydney Dance Company will undertake a European Spring Tour of the exhilarating triple bill of Rafael Bonachela’s Lux Tenebris, Cheng Tsung-lung’s Full Moon and Gabrielle Nankivell’s Wildebeest, with with Sydney Dance Company’s first ever performances at Théâtre National de la Danse Chaillot, Paris.

​The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will tour to China this May, performing in six cities in ten days under the helm of Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) has today announced it will commence a three-year residency as International Associate Ensemble at Milton Court in partnership with the Barbican Centre from the 2018/19 season.

​After receiving rave reviews for their European performances in 2016, the Australian Chamber Orchestra will return to Europe in November for a substantial tour of the continent.

OperaQ’s most recent take on The Barber of Seville will debut in Seattle next month before heading over to New Zealand.

Musica Viva Australia despatches its well-crafted music education program to Hong Kong schools in October.

Melbourne Theatre Company's impact grows, finding new audiences across the globe.

​The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is being recognised for five decades of building and strengthening cultural ties between Australia and Asia.

Bangarra are pleased to announce they will be embarking on a three-city European tour in late October, taking their most ambitious international program to date, including Spirit and OUR land people stories.

Australian performance making its mark in China.Circus Oz this week kicking off a season of Australian performance across China.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is touring to Indonesia across July and August, becoming the first western orchestra to perform a unique outdoor concert at the Prambanan Hindu Temple, a renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site.

August will see some of Australia’s top talent making a splash overseas as Circus Oz breaks new ground in China and Malthouse Theatre takes two dazzlingly successful productions to Edinburgh.

This acclaimed and powerful celebration of Indigenous survival tours Australia until 17 June, before heading to London for the Origins Festival.

'***** one of the wonders of the musical world…an astonishing experience.' The Guardian UK

Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) Artistic Director Richard Tognetti as the Barbican Centre’s first Artist-in-Residence at Milton Court Concert Hall, for 2016 and 2017, has again taken London by storm this month, appearing as solo recitalist, genre-defying performer, pedagogue and of course, as first amongst equals with his ensemble the ACO.

UK’s interest in Australian theatre continues with national premiere of Belvoir’s hit play Seventeen opening this month.

This time its veteran British actors Michael Feast and Roger Sloman on a climbing frame at the Lyric theatre in London and the play begins on the last day of their A-levels rather than the HSC.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Cellist, David Berlin and Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Violinist, Rosemary Curtin, will perform with the New York Philharmonic as part of a United Nations-endorsed global orchestra in June.

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) announced Nicholas Carter will continue as Principal Conductor for its 2018 Season. The announcement coincides with the appointment of Mr Carter as the new Chief Conductor of Stadttheater Klagenfurt and Kärntner Sinfonieorchester in Austria from September 2018 for an initial three-year term.

The Melbourne Sydney Orchestra has been working closely with the Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia and the Australia-Indonesia Centre (AIC) to strengthen our diplomatic, cultural and artistic relationships.

The Australian Government is developing a foreign policy white paper — the first since 2003. AMPAG is advocating that setting cultural diplomacy as a key pillar of an updated foreign policy would advance Australia’s security interests, business and cultural prosperity in a rapidly changing world.

Three of Australia’s renowned performing arts companies – Sydney Dance Company, Circus Oz and Sydney Theatre Company - have concurrent seasons and tours in the United States, showcasing Australian culture, ideas and talent on the global stage.

Following 78 performances at 19 venues around Australia in 2016, Sydney Dance Company continues its strong tradition of international touring, showcasing Australian culture, ideas and talent on the global stage. From 24 February to 12 March, the company will perform Frame of Mind, Raw Models and Wildebeest throughout the USA in New York, Boston, Swarthmore and Amherst.

Edinburgh critics and audiences acclaim innovative collaboration from Malthouse Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company.

The complete original cast have begun rehearsals in New York this week for the Broadway run of Sydney Theatre Company’s THE PRESENT. Previewing on 17 December 2016 the show will open at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) 8 January 2017 and run through to 19 March 2017.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 2017 season is Tognetti's 28th at the helm. But before it begins, he has taken up the position of artist-in-residence at London’s Barbican Centre Milton Court Concert Hall.

The West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) has embarked on a three-stage international tour, with performances in Abu Dhabi, Beijing and Shanghai.

​Lux Tenebris premiered in Sydney in February and toured nationally to 19 venues across six states and territories. This month the work has its European premiere in Frankfurt with performances from September 8 and then in Dresden from September 29.

With Fall for Dance Festival debut in New York City and one week residency at the Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac.

Circus Oz recently lead a two week masterclass program at the Seoul Street Arts Creation Centre (SSACC) in South Korea.

The ACO will travel to Europe and North America from 22 July to 14 August.

The Australian Ballet embarks on its tour to London, where it will perform at the Coliseum, the West End's largest theatre, over a two-week season, from 13 to 23 July 2016.

This week, in the South China city of Guangzhou, an ensemble of 20 SSO musicians held a day of musical workshops and rehearsals with the talented students at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music as part of a program with the City of Sydney.

​The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra announces tour to Shanghai, Fuzhou and Nanjing later this year.

The Australian Ballet has confirmed its next international tour will be to London, in July. Under the artistic helm of David McAllister, the Company will perform two of its signature works; a return season of Graeme Murphy’s highly acclaimed Swan Lake and first time London season of Alexei Ratmasnky’s Cinderella.

The Sydney Dance Company presented its triple billI Interplay at the prestigious Steps Festival in Switzerland, the country’s largest contemporary dance biennale, showcasing a selection of the world’s premier international dance companies.

After winning MSO’s Cybec 21st Century Composer’s Program earlier this year, Alex Turley and Michael Bakrnčev’s new compositions will be performed live by the Orchestra during this year’s Metropolis New Music Festival.

After more than 20 years, West Australian Ballet will be touring to Jakarta, Indonesia.

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare and several of the major performing arts companies are noting the fact, with performances, workshops, talks and international tours.

Bangarra performs a special gala performance in Shanghai this week to celebrate Australia Week in China.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra will fly to Guangzhou to perform a concert on 30 May marking the start of four days of festivities celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the sister-city relationship between Sydney and Guangzhou.

In a first for students at the Sydney Conservatorium, 13 young musicians in the Opera Australia/Sydney Conservatorium Internship Program travelled to Vietnam in early April to perform Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohéme as part of the Hennessy Music Series.

Musicians from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will travel to South Australia’s sister state of Shandong Province in China in April as part of the South Australia–Shandong 30th Year Anniversary Mission.

​In April 2016 the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will collaborate with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, China’s oldest and most prestigious orchestra, in a ground-breaking residency in Shanghai where both orchestras will perform together under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis.

Opera Queensland has taken its co-production with New Zealand Opera of La Cenerentola (Cinderella) to Germany for six performances in Leipzig this month, opening on 19 March.

The shortlist for the 2016 International Opera Awards has been announced, selected by the jury chaired by John Allison, editor of Opera magazine and classical music critic with The Daily Telegraph (UK).

Sydney Theatre Company’s The Present, Andrew Upton’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s first play, Platonov, will be presented on Broadway in the early Winter of 2016.

State Theatre Company of South Australia is collaborating with with the UK theatre company, Frantic Assembly, on a new play by Andrew Bovell, Things I Know To Be True.

Bangarra takes off this Saturday, flying to Istanbul for two very special performances at the recently opened Zorlu Center.

Bangarra's first feature film, Spear, screened in the Discovery Programme at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Many of Australia’s major performing arts companies will travel to Asia this year and next, collaborating with companies, schools and academies in China, South Korea and New Zealand.

Queensland Ballet wowed UK audiences last week at the Coliseum Theatre with its production of La Sylphide.

Malthouse Theatre is taking its award winning production of The Shadow King to London’s Barbican Centre in 2016.

​The SSO represented Australia at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts' (NCPA) annual May festival of chamber music.

It’s the season for overseas travel, and some major performing arts companies are preparing for London, including Sydney Theatre Company and Queensland Ballet.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra finishes its US tour with some impressive statistics: 9 concerts, 1 private performance, 22 towns and cities in 12 states, 15 flights and 30 buses, all in 21 nights away.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra signed an MOU on 17 March with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Orchestra Academy, to provide mentoring and performance opportunities to Chinese students in Shanghai and Sydney.

This month is a busy international time for dancers from the Queensland Ballet, with their sights set on the US and China.

Sydney Dance Company, supported by Arts NSW, has been invited to perform this year at one of Germany’s biggest cultural events, Movimentos Festival.

A new partnership between the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO), China Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) and Australia China Business Council (Western Australia) was launched in Perth yesterday.

Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, announced last week that Opera Australia would receive $50,000 for an Indian tour of the 2008 Helpmann Award-winning Shane Warne the Musical.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra and The Australian Ballet have both had whirlwind tours in October—in Europe and the US, respectively.

It might be a bit like carrying coals to Newcastle, but Malthouse Theatre’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s masterpiece The Good Person of Szechuan will tour to China in October this year.

Recent research by the British Council has found that Australia ranks equal second (with the UK, and behind the US) out of 15 global economies for overall ‘attractiveness’.

​After hit seasons in Sydney, Melbourne and one night in New York City, Lally Katz’s show, Stories I want to Tell You in Person, is off to Dramafest in Mexico and Brink Productions in Adelaide.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is now back in Australia after a sell-out tour to China.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is off to the Edinburgh Festival, as part of the company’s European tour, the full details of which will be announced after Easter.

Australia's reputation as a creative and dynamic nation is closely tied to its achievements in the arts and culture as well as in science and education.

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