Sydney Philharmonia Choirs - Non-traditional Offerings

Non-traditional Offerings

While Sydney Philharmonia has a long history of traditional classical-style choral concert presentation, it has in recent years gone considerably beyond this style in some of its concerts, with some notable success.

• The Vox chamber ensemble backed Labrinth in his performance of Earthquake on the television program The X Factor, 9 October 2012.
• The Beatles Unplugged was the title of an August 2012 concert which featured choral arrangements of Beatles songs with choreography and with costumes evoking the 1960s.
• Purcell's opera King Arthur was presented in 2010 in the City Recital Hall as if it were a 1940s radio play, with foley artists and an on-stage voice-over artist announcing stage directions. The performers were costumed, but in a 1940s style. This concert was nominated for a Limelight Award.
• Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms were fully staged in 2010, with direction by Peter Sellars, again as part of the Sydney Festival. This production won a Helpmann Award.
• The Dawn Chorus concert series in 2009 was a series of four free concerts scheduled for 5:30 am on summer Saturdays on Sydney beaches during the Sydney Festival. These performances attracted audiences of over 7000.