The season opens with the Choirs and Sydney Opera House Grand Organ at full throttle. There are great classics like St Matthew Passion with a Romantic twist by Felix Mendelssohn, Brahms’ consoling ‘human requiem’ and JS Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Legendary choir leader Eric Whitacre makes a welcome return, and celebrate new voices like Nardi Simpson, Alice Chance and Joanna Forbes L’Estrange. There’s a place in the choir for everyone in ChorusOz, taking on Ralph Vaughan Williams’ epic A Sea Symphony.