Hannah Gadsby, a high-wire ballet spectacular, a free late-night dance party and hip hop-orchestra crossover headline a city-wide celebration.
Australian Youth Orchestra’s 2027 season combines orchestral showpieces, new Australian music and international collaborations.
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The duo makes the move to focus on personal creative projects.
Cameron Lam features movement and momentum in this month's playlist, looking at Australian Classical, Jazz, and Sound Art releases through the lens of drift.
During his upcoming Australian tour, the great Welsh bass-baritone will be sharing his favourite music and the knowledge he has accumulated over 40 years in the spotlight.
Virtuoso British-Australian organist Joseph Nolan traces his career and discusses recording the complete organ works of maverick French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan.
Beth Taylor and Hamish Brown explore the many moods of the sea in this lovely recital.
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A potent and even suffocating reading of Britten’s masterpiece delivers a warning we ignore at our peril.
An old and familiar tragedy made freshly moving in Rodula Gaitanou's powerful production.
Apart from Orchestra Victoria in top form, this concert marking the reopening of Melbourne’s premiere theatre lacked local talent – and a sense of celebration.
Monty Python fans will doubtless embrace it, but Spamalot feels dated, not helped by modest production values.
US Conductor Jonathon Hayward reveals the full weight of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.
Beethoven, Ravel and Dobrinka Tabakova anchor a showcase of Kanneh-Mason’s expressive range and technical assurance.
Despite feeling "a little bit excluded" from the world of jazz, violinist-composer Xani Kolac's new work for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival finds a sense of belonging.
The human hand takes centre stage in a Limelight issue devoted to imagination, craft, rediscovery and reinvention.
Ahead of concerts in Melbourne and Sydney, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Principal Bass Robert Nairn unpacks a world premiere 250 years overdue.
The Australian baritone explains what listeners can expect of his Schwanengesang with Erin Helyard.
Perth is hosting Australia's first chamber festival devoted to music by women, with much of it being aired for the first time. But the real test, argues musicologist Stacy Olive Jarvis, lies in whether anyone performs it again.
Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.
The October issue celebrates renewal, mentorship, musical discovery and the growing international presence of Australian artists.
Laura Hansford talks about her new production of Bizet’s Carmen for State Opera South Australia, in which Don José is seen to fail as a human being rather than its heroine.
Australian Youth Orchestra’s 2027 season combines orchestral showpieces, new Australian music and international collaborations.
The duo makes the move to focus on personal creative projects.
Log in to read the flipbook version of Limelight's November 2026 magazine.
Simone Young talks about Wagner, the differences between Bayreuth and the Sydney Opera House, and why Salome is perfect to follow the SSO's Ring Cycle.
Dean Bryant was keen to cast Christie Whelan Browne in the stage adaptation of All About Eve. But should she play Margo or Eve? Why not both?
Were Chopin, Schubert and Tchaikovsky attracted to men? Their letters suggest they were.
Opera Australia’s new production of La bohème turns its back on our digital world in favour of paint, cloth and handmade theatre.
The human hand takes centre stage in a Limelight issue devoted to imagination, craft, rediscovery and reinvention.
Costanzo’s cultural pilgrimage is a virtuoso literary performance.
An old and familiar tragedy made freshly moving in Rodula Gaitanou's powerful production.
Apart from Orchestra Victoria in top form, this concert marking the reopening of Melbourne’s premiere theatre lacked local talent – and a sense of celebration.
During his upcoming Australian tour, the great Welsh bass-baritone will be sharing his favourite music and the knowledge he has accumulated over 40 years in the spotlight.
The human hand takes centre stage in a Limelight issue devoted to imagination, craft, rediscovery and reinvention.
Jonathan Biggins talks to Deborah Jones about his new novel, Near Death in Venice – the first in a cosy crime series.
Monty Python fans will doubtless embrace it, but Spamalot feels dated, not helped by modest production values.
A superb cast makes light work of Mia Chung's knotty portrait of two working-class American families.
Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production returns to Australia for the first time in more than a decade, opening 40 years after its local premiere.
This staging of the 2023 Silver Gull Award-winner reminds us that when it comes to the boys’ club, it’s women who have to clean up the mess.
Germany’s leading classical company brings its justly admired production of Petipa’s great ballet to Melbourne
"Our 75th anniversary is about honouring our past without being held by it,” says Artistic Director Leanne Stojmenov.
An agreeable evening of dance fails to live up to the challenge.
The award-winning Australian choreographer and performer "privileged to build on this enduring home for dance".
The October issue celebrates renewal, mentorship, musical discovery and the growing international presence of Australian artists.
The October issue celebrates renewal, mentorship, musical discovery and the growing international presence of Australian artists.
Costanzo’s cultural pilgrimage is a virtuoso literary performance.
Beth Taylor and Hamish Brown explore the many moods of the sea in this lovely recital.
A great pianist and a great composer in their prime.
Weill’s melting-pot masterpiece soars in Opera North’s live recording.
Whately embodies the master’s voice and the women he inspired.
Bicket delivers a first-night Cesare that Handel would have recognised.
Explore our 2026 Guide and vote for your favourite pieces of Australian art music.
Our specialist writers analyse this year’s offerings in theatres and concert halls.
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