Love, Loss and Madness
Highlights
- Experience the lush sounds of 19th-century Italy with brilliant Australian vocalists and historical orchestral backing.
- Savour a free beverage at the post-concert Atrium Bar celebration, enhancing your evening of musical storytelling.
- Engage with groundbreaking research that brings fresh insights to beloved bel canto tales of love and loss.
- Delight in a family-friendly atmosphere at the Conservatorium Road venue, perfect for sharing cultural experiences.
Bel canto tales of love, loss and madness from 19th-century Italy, told by some of Australia’s most brilliant singers, using all the chiaroscuro and passion of the human voice against a lush backdrop of historical strings, winds and brass.
Based on groundbreaking new research and featuring leading Australian vocalists with the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, plus three YMS Emerging Artists and two ARCO Fellows.
Co-directed by Rachael Beesley and Neal Peres Da Costa, with sopranos Anna Fraser and Claire Burrell-McDonald, tenor Andrew Goodwin and bass David Greco.
Free beverage with every ticket at the post-concert Atrium Bar celebration!
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Features
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
- Website meets <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/" target="_blank">WCAG 2.0</a> accessibility standards
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
- A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Uses floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
- Uses non-slip tiles in the bathroom or slip resistant matting
- Grab rails in the bathroom
- Seating in common areas including reception area
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Step free access to restaurant, lounge and bar
- Accessible seating areas in theatrette
- Lifts with enough space for people using a mobility aid to enter and turn around to use the lift buttons. Buttons are at accessible height.
- Doorways which are easy to open and have lever handles (doorways 850mm or wider when open and not heavy).
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
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