Liz Anderson talks to David Marr
about Agatha della Pietà
11 August 2026
slide show created by Alex Hedt
with permission from ABC Radio
Agatha’s Cantata, Vivaldi’s Gloria
is at the Scots’ Church, Melbourne
on Saturday 12 September at 5PM
Watch/Listen Category: First Performances
Second Movement, Cantata by Agatha della Pietà
The ACC is joined by the String Ensemble of Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello,
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at the Pisani Palace, Venice 16 July 2024
Experience this lost cantata live in concert
Buy your tickets now for Agatha’s Cantata, Vivaldi’s Gloria
in DUNKELD on 5 September and in MELBOURNE on 12 September
Cameras – Bruce Inglis and Rebecca Lena; Sound – Simone Corelli; Production/editing, Rebecca Lena
Experience the ACC in a live performance …
Since 2007, the ACC has given 125 concerts in Europe and many more in Australia. This program (and the new CD that goes with it) brings together everyone’s favourite encores: music that makes you laugh, sigh, swoon, cry, sits you on the edge of your seat, or sets your spine tingling. Read more…Encores 2026
Fourth movement, Cantata by Agatha della Pietà
Premiere, filmed live in concert at Palazzo Pisani, Venice, 16 July 2024
Reconstruction by Elizabeth Anderson
Australian Chamber Choir
with the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello String Ensemble
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Buy your tickets now for Agatha’s Cantata, Vivaldi’s Gloria
in DUNKELD on 5 September and in MELBOURNE on 12 September
Cameras – Bruce Inglis and Rebecca Lena; Sound – Simone Corelli; Production/editing, Rebecca Lena
Fifth movement, Cantata by Agatha della Pietà
Premiere, filmed live in concert at Palazzo Pisani, Venice, 16 July 2024
Reconstruction by Elizabeth Anderson
Australian Chamber Choir, Kate McBride and Katherine Lieschke – Sopranos
with the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello String Ensemble
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Buy your tickets now for Agatha’s Cantata, Vivaldi’s Gloria
in DUNKELD on 5 September and in MELBOURNE on 12 September
Cameras – Bruce Inglis and Rebecca Lena; Sound – Simone Corelli; Production/editing, Rebecca Lena
The Cantata – ‘Ecce nunc’, Finale, by Agatha della Pietà
Premiere, filmed live in concert at Palazzo Pisani, Venice, 16 July 2024
Reconstruction by Elizabeth Anderson
Australian Chamber Choir, Kate McBride – Soprano
with the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello String Ensemble
directed by Douglas Lawrence
A documentary, entitled Agatha’s Story, coming to SBS TV on 11 August 2026, tells of the discovery and reconstruction of this work – the only surviving composition by an orphan of the Ospedale della Pietà – and the ACC’s premiere performances of it.
Cameras – Bruce Inglis and Rebecca Lena; Sound – Simone Corelli; Production/editing, Rebecca Lena
Nimrod, by Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar
‘Nimrod’, from the Enigma Variations Op.36
Premiered in London, 19 June, 1899
Arranged by Elizabeth Anderson for 8-part choir
Premiered in Melbourne, 24 June, 2018
Filmed in concert by Filmoo.com.au
Sound courtesy of ABC Classic FM
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
24 June, 2018
See this live as part of the ACC’s Great Romantic Voices in Dunkeld on Saturday 13 June or in Middle Park on Sunday 21 June, or watch on Australian Digital Concert Hall.
Ego flos campi, by Raffaella Aleotti
When Raffaella Aleotti published her Sacred Songs in Venice in 1593, she became the first female composer to publish a collection of sacred music.
Ego flos campi
Australian Chamber Choir directed by Elizabeth Anderson
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park on Sunday 17 August 2025
Watch the full Renaissance Requiem concert (including Gordon Kerry’s new Requiem) via Australian Digital Concert Hall.
Alchemy, by Gordon Kerry
This time last year, the Australian Chamber Choir gave eleven performances in Europe. This video was filmed at the Swiss international festival known as ‘Ceresio Estate’, a series of summer concerts in churches around Lake Lugano. European Audiences were fascinated by the Australian works on the program, which included this setting of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXXIII, by Gordon Kerry.
Alchemy is the first track on the 2025 CD release, Gold.
ORDER GOLD CD NOW
Heu Me, by Vicente Lusitano
Heu me Domine, by Vicente Lusitano (?–c.1561)
Filmed live in concert at
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
16 July 2019
by Martin Wright Media
The ACC gave this work its first Australian performance on 16 June 2019.
Hear this as part of the ACC’s Agatha in Vivaldi’s Venice
3PM on 5 May, The Scots’ Church MELBOURNE
3PM on 13 April, St Andrew’s HAMILTON*
5PM on 21 April, Basilica of St Mary of the Angels GEELONG
3PM on 25 May, Church of the Resurrection MACEDON
*Presented in partnership with the Hamilton Gallery, Emerging from Darkness exhibition, featuring paintings of Italian female artists of the Baroque. Ticket includes a guided tour of the exhibition at 1PM and light refreshments.
Ode to Joy, L.v. Beethoven
ACC8, directed by Douglas Lawrence
Ode to Joy arranged for 8 voices by Elizabeth Anderson
Live-streamed from Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
on 21 March 2021 Video by 5stream
Book your seat now to see this live
as part of the ACC’s Encores program
First Light, by Alan Holley
Text by Mark Tredinnick
Soprano – Amelia Jones
Douglas Lawrence talks about the ACC’s first 4 years
In 2011, we decided to pay ACC singers to perform. This video was created at this turning point in the ACC’s history. Paid concerts have become an important affirmation in the early careers of the young singers who work with us. Ensemble singing as a career path is almost non-existent in Australia. While opera singers train for the loudest and most beautiful solo sound, ensemble singers train for a high degree of musicianship, the ability to sight-read at a high level, produce a good blending sound, to be able to listen and continually adjust to other singers and to sing with absolute rhythmical accuracy. Douglas Lawrence was recognised with an AM in the 2020 Australia Day honours for his role promoting ensemble singing and encouraging young singers.
Tom Henry – This Earth at St Martin-in-the-Fields
Number A4 on the ACC’s Top Ten shortlist
Text by Bill Neidjie OAM, set to music by Tom Henry