RICHARD TOGNETTI
Artistic Director and Lead Violin
BARRY HUMPHRIES
Presenter and Voice
Music from EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA AND EUROPE
WALTON Façade
Tickets: $35-$125
Barry Humphries and Richard Tognetti have long been fans and friends and we are delighted to bring them together on stage at last for a very special night of entertainment to round off the ACO's 2009 Season.
Setting aside the masks of his alter-egos, Barry Humphries is a painter, author and music aficionado, a side of him you’ll experience when he presents this concert – Barry Humphries’ guide to the orchestra.
He is also, of course, one of the great performers of our time, and the centrepiece of the show will be his performance of Façade, Edith Sitwell’s eccentric nonsense poems recited over Walton’s cheeky, jazzy, hummable instrumental backgrounds.
Don’t miss this highly original and entertaining collaboration between two iconic Australians.
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Satu Vänskä, Barry Humphries and Richard Tognetti.
“Humphries is a genius. There isn’t another performer like him and probably won’t be.” Herald Sun, 2006
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