Our 2022 Closing Gala brings together instrumentalists and choristers from all over Southwest Victoria, alongside Melbourne musicians and magnificent soloists, under the baton of esteemed conductor Michael Dahlenburg, on one enormous shared stage. REGENERATION bursts into life with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ glorious Serenade to Music, inspired by the discussion of the Music of the Spheres in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, and written to mark the jubilee of the conductor Sir Henry Wood. We then witness the world premiere of a fresh new work created collaboratively by local Southwest schoolchildren with composer and renowned pedagogue Dermot Tutty. Our 2022 Festival concludes with an uplifting selection of the most rousing opera choruses and arias, with which we encourage you to sing along, leaving our souls regenerated and our hearts filled with hope and with gratitude that we have once again regathered in our beloved Port Fairy.

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