Handel's Acis and Galatea

Pinchgut Opera & Orchestra of the Antipodes

Chloe Lankshear, soprano
Anna Fraser, soprano
Louis Hurley, tenor
Richard Butler, tenor
Andrew O’Connor, bass
Matthew Greco, violin
Adam Masters, oboe
Alicia Crossley, recorder
Hannah Lane, baroque harp
Anton Baba, gamba/cello
Erin Helyard, harpsichord/organ

Image Peter Rubie

Generously supported by Leading Patron Ulrike Klein AO. 

About Erin Helyard
Erin Helyard has been acclaimed as an inspiring conductor, a virtuosic and expressive performer of the harpsichord and fortepiano, and as a lucid scholar who is passionate about promoting discourse between musicology and performance. As Artistic Director and co-founder of the celebrated Pinchgut Opera and the Orchestra of the Antipodes (Sydney) he has forged new standards of excellence in historically-informed performance in Australia. He has received two Helpmann Awards for Best Musical Direction (2017, 2019) and an ARIA for Best Classical Album (2020). Erin is a Senior Lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and appears courtesy of Pinchgut Opera.

About Pinchgut Opera
Pinchgut Opera is Australia's only company dedicated to Baroque opera and vocal music, with a global reputation as one of the world's finest companies specialising in historically informed performance. Pinchgut takes rare and often undiscovered masterpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries and re-creates them in the modern frame, giving contemporary relevance to this exquisite music of the past for today’s audiences to enjoy.