Couch Opera brings worldwide rising stars from their living room to yours via Perth

Couch Opera Live returns to YouTube tonight with up-and-coming stars streaming from their living rooms to yours.

Collated and narrated by Perth singers Magda Lisek and Jillian Halleron, the program begins in Manchester, England, with Daniella Sicari signing I want magic, from A Streetcar Named Desire, by Andre Previn.

Jake Bigwood chimes in from Yallingup, WA, with Peter’s Aria from Hansel & Gretel, by Engelbert Humperdinck (the German composer).

Lisek is next with Chacun le sait, from Donizetti’s The daughter of the regiment.

Then we’re Stateside with Leo William in Miami and Vesti la giubba, from Pagliacci, by Leoncavallo.

Justyna Slawiec-Korzen hails next from Wroclaw, Poland, with O mio babbino caro, from Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.

Halleron brings us back to Perth for Son pochi Fiori, from Amico Fritz, by Mascagni.

West End star Corinne Cowling then presents Deh vieni non tardar, from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.

Caitlin Cassidy flips the dial to Sydney for Va! laisse couler mes larmes, from Werther’s Massenet.

Elora Ledger is in the same locale for I am easily assimilated, from Bernstein’s Candide.

And finally we go south of the border to Melbourne with Amy Fortnum and Andrew Coshan for Cole Porter’s It’s De-Lovley.

The show is live from 6pm tonight at https://youtu.be/3-lnZpe-qIU.

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After the rising stars wrap up, at 7.30pm on Saturday WA Opera continues its Ghost Light series with soprano Emma Matthews, mezzo soprano Fiona Campbell, tenor Paul O’Neill and baritone James Clayton taking turns to present a single aria each week, accompanied by Tommaso Pollio.

Visit www.waopera.asn.au/show/ghost-light-opera/.

Over in Victoria, the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall presents a Women in Music Festival, starting at 5pm (WA time), with Stefan Cassomenos on piano playing Natalie Williams’ Concert Etude: Entropy; Liza Lim’s The Four Seasons; and Elizabeth Younan’s Piano Sonata.

He is joined at 6.30pm by soprano Liane Keegan for Dory and André Previn’s Yes; Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh’s On the Sunny Side of the Street; Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth’s Shine On Harvest Moon; Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh’s I Can’t Give You Anything But Love; Carolyn Leigh and Cy Coleman’s The Best is Yet to Come; Margaret Cummings, Burton Lane and EY Hawbur’ The Last Call for Love; concluding with Jessie May Robinson’s Without A Memory.

Each recital lasts 60 minutes. Tickets are $24 from melbournedigitalconcerthall.com.

And on Sunday, WA Symphony Orchestra concludes its Ensemble Edition series of chamber music with a brass extravaganza from Perth’s Government House Ballroom.

Trombonist Joshua Davis has set two Wagner pieces for the ensemble, summoning the depth and strength of WASO’s formidable back row.

Die Meistersigner Overture opens the bill and Parsifal closes it.

In between is Oskar Boehme’s Brass Sextet in E Flat Minor, in the trumpeter and composer’s original setting.

Brent Grapes, Jenna Smith, Peter Miller and Zoe McGivern on cornet/trumpet; David Evans, Robert Gladstones, Julia Brooke and Francesco Lo Surdo on horn; Liam O’Malley, Thomas Gilmore, Phillip Holdsworth and Davis on trombone/euphonium; tuba player Cameron Brook; and timpanist Alex Timcke all follow the baton of John Keene.

Catch it from 5pm on Sunday at waso.com.au.