What's on in Brisbane while you're here
 

We’ll update this page from time to time, as other events come to our notice.

Queensland Music Festival

This runs between 13 and 29 July. So far there are two events scheduled for Brisbane:

The Love of the Nightingale
World premiere of a new opera by Richard Mills and Timberlake Wertenberger. The Love of the Nightingale is based on Wertenberger's play for the Royal Shakespeare Company, on the legend of Philomele and Procne, and is a co-production with Opera Queensland (see below). There are 3 performances only, on the evenings of 13, 16 and 18 July, at the Playhouse, QPAC..

Red Cap
Musical theatre on the Mt Isa mining dispute of the mid-60s, a landmark in Australian industrial relations. A co-production with La Boite Theatre Company (see below), it runs from 19 July to 4 August, with matinees available, and previews on 17 and 18 July.

Bookings available online: www.queenslandmusicfestival.com.au.  You can also ask to be added to their emailing list for updates and further events.

The Queensland Orchestra

For those staying on after the conference, on 4 August the Queensland Orchestra will be presenting a concert in its Maestro series. Antoni Wit will be conducting Messiaen's Le Tombeau Resplendissant, Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with Nikolai Demidenko.

Bookings available online: www.thequeenslandorchestra.com.au

Australian Chamber Orchestra

For those in town well before the conference, on 2 July the ACO under its guest director, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaya, will be playing Klein's Partita, Hartmann's Concerto funèbre, Kodály's Marosszek Dances,
Rossini's String Sonata No.3 in C, Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in D major ('Il grosso mogul') and the Australian premiere of Kopatchinskaja's Per Australia

Bookings available online:  www.aco.com.au

Brisbane Organ Recital International Series 

At 3.00 pm on 22 July, Jennifer Chou plays Buxtehude, and pieces from Langlais' Neuf pièces, Messiaen's Livre de Saint Sacrément, and Vierne's Symphony No. 3 in F# minor.

Details from www.stjohnscathedral.com.au

Opera Queensland  

The Love of the Nightingale
The world premiere of Richard Mills and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s new opera, as part of the Queensland Music Festival (see above). Three performances from 13 July to 18 July.

Hansel and Gretel
Humperdinck's opera runs from 7 to 28 July at the Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank

Bookings available online: www.operaqld.org.au

Queensland Theatre Company

Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie has a season of ten performances between 9 July and 11 August, at the Cremorne Theatre, QPAC. 

Bookings available online: www.qldtheatreco.com.au

La Boite Theatre Company 

Red Cap, a piece commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival (see above), runs between 19 July and 4 August, with previews on 17 and 18 July 2007.

Bookings available online: www.laboite.com.au

Brisbane has a thriving cultural scene, the newest addition to which is the world-class Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) at South Bank.

If you're planning a visit that will extend beyond the conference dates, you might like to check the full and up-to-date listings of events, venues, restaurants and sights to see on the OurBrisbane website.