A tour by one of the world’s greatest orchestras and a major collection of ancient Egyptian treasures from the British Museum are among the cultural highlights to be served up in 2013.
Details remain secret so the name-dropping will have to wait for another time but the Perth Concert Hall will celebrate its 40th anniversary year, along with the Sydney Opera House, in fine style with the resumption of the World Orchestra Series in November.
It has taken four years of negotiations and planning to secure the orchestra to follow previous visits by the Vienna Philharmonic in 2011, the Berlin Philharmonic in 2010 and the London Philharmonic in 2009. The tour will be announced in the lead-up to the Perth Concert Hall’s birthday on January 26.
The coming Australia Day long weekend will mark a perfect storm of arts celebrations as the Art Gallery of WA welcomes the latest instalment of its
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