The Big Sing Events
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The Big SIng, is an annual event held at Tatachilla Lutheran College, and attracts choristers from far and wide. Voices in the Wilderness hold rehearsal sessions leading up to the each performance, and supplies a large number of choristers for each event.
2026 - 8th November - Origins of the Universe, of Life, of Species, of Humanity
Jenny Graves & Leigh Hay | Librettists
Nicholas Buc | Composer & Conductor
In partnership with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Big Sing Chorus with Graduate Singers
Soprano: Desiree Frahn
Contralto: Liane Keegan
Tenor: Robert Macfarlane
Bass: Adrian Tamburini
For more information or tickets visit the Big Sing web site
2025 Big Sing at the Opera
Big Sing At the Opera – Big Sing Chorus, with members of the State Opera of South Australia Chorus; Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite; Students from the Elder Conservatorium; Soloists: Jessica Dean, Fiona McArdle, Emma Woehle, Kyle Stegall, Teddy Tahu Rhodes
2024 Big SIng on Broadway
Big Sing on Broadway – Big Sing Chorus and Children’s Choir, the Norwood Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mark DeLaine. Adelaide’s top music performers: Mark Oates, Fiona DeLaine, Sarah Whiteley, Madeleine Schroeter and Adam Goodburn.
2023 Haydn's Creation
Haydn The Creation – Big Sing Chorus, Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus, and the Adelaide Concert Orchestra conducted by Graham Abbott, with soloists Ruth Blytheman, Robert Macfarlane and Pelham Andrews.
2022 31st July The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins.
The Armed Man was conducted by Dr Carl Crossin OAM with the Big Sing Chorus joined by a core choir and orchestra made up of young musicians from two of Adelaide’s Special Interest Music Centres (Brighton and Marryatville High Schools) and the Elder Conservatorium.
A recording may be accessed from the following link. https://vimeo.com/749774311?mc_cid=402ea435d4&mc_eid=4a888d40db
2021 Verdi Requiem
Staged in partnership with the Adelaide Youth Orchestra. Postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic, it was a joy to hear the massed choir and orchestra led by Keith
Crellin OAM.
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2019 Mendelssohn’s Elijah
Presented in conjunction with the Norwood Symphony Orchestra. The choir and orchestra were led by Michael Milton, with soloists Jeremy Tatchell as Elijah with soprano Lisa Cannizzaro, contralto Riana Chakravarti and tenor Branko Lovrinov.
2018 Fauré Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine
Conductor: Luke Dollman Big Sing Massed Choir, Elder Conservatorium Chorale, Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Soloists: Brooke Window – Soprano, Lachlan Scott – Baritone, Madeleine Stewart – Flute.