From the beginning, northern Europeans have always been attracted to the Mediterranean: the sun, the shining sea, olive groves and vineyards, not to mention classical ruins and the cradle of western culture - what’s not to like? Poets and composers  were particularly enamoured of the vibrant South, as this evening’s programme illustrates. Beginning with Goethe’s Mignon, who famously asks if we know the land “where the orange trees grow”, we will hear songs by Schumann, Fanny Hensel, Strauss, Debussy and Ravel, among many others, all inspired, at first by Italy, and then Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean. And, as travel became simpler, and the world became smaller, further afield. Until, of course, it’s time to go home…

Join us on our Grand Tour, as we bring you Art Song and Antipasti with some of Australia’s finest young singers in this year’s Liederabend – “Elsewhere”.