Emma Donovan, Kaiit and Tim Rogers of You Am I are among the artists teaming up with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for two return concerts next month.

Entitled ‘Performance of a Lifetime’ – named after the MSO’s vaccination campaign of the same name – the two concerts will take place December 13-14 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

The lineup also includes Mo’Ju, Liz Stringer, Felix Riebl of The Cat Empire and artists from the Australian Ballet, the Melbourne Theater Company and the Victorian Opera, among others. The orchestra will also perform excerpts from current or upcoming theater productions in Melbourne, Frozen, Red Mill!, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and The Phantom of the Opera.

“We haven’t done a live concert since July, it’s going to be a long time between drinks. It is this shared experience that makes him special, ”said OSM conductor Ben Northey. Age.

“We all feel the music at the same time with the audience, we feed on their energy and we give it back to them. “

Tickets for the shows go on sale November 8 through Ticketek, hundreds of tickets will be reserved for frontline workers in the event of a pandemic.

The Sidney Myer Music Bowl recently hosted the 4,000-person Play On Victoria concert, marking the return of major musical events to the state. Among the artists who performed were Amyl and the Sniffers, Baker Boy, and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.