Lerida Delbridge's first year as festival director celebrates Blackheath's vivid autumn with two world premieres, a Beethoven celebration and more.
Melbourne's Cedar Quartet progresses to a coveted Australian Festival of Chamber Music Fellowship after participating in the AFCM Pathways Program this year.
With a week to go to vote for your favourite tracks in Limelight's Guide, the AMC's Catherine Haridy talks up the importance of Australian art music.
Cellist Mischa Maisky and his pianist daughter Lily Maisky bring their instinctive musical partnership to Australia for the first time.
Ahead of a free public concert of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 in Melbourne, Peter Tregear unpacks a work that rose from the modernist margins to the top of the charts.
Tyran Parke’s new production of The Trumpet of the Swan puts theatrical imagination at the heart of Opera Australia’s new family show.
Hollis Taylor chats about her new work for Musica Viva Australia, co-composed with Jon Rose for the Latvian Radio Choir and recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey.
Opera Australia’s new production of La bohème turns its back on our digital world in favour of paint, cloth and handmade theatre.
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Four jazz heavyweights find the perfect balance between individual brilliance and collective musicality.
Sweet and lowdown: David Campbell and colleagues explore bass-driven and rarely heard works.
Kris Davis delivers a knockout set, but the quiet precision of Soojin Suh lingers longer.
A blazing talent with a band of equals performing music that deserves to live long in the memory.
Hamasyan brings Armenian folk music into exhilarating dialogue with jazz, electronica and rock.
It was the intensity of the musical experience that set this live event apart.
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Hollis Taylor chats about her new work for Musica Viva Australia, co-composed with Jon Rose for the Latvian Radio Choir and recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey.
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.
Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.
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?
The Bidjara songwoman and composer, known as ‘Australia’s Dreamtime Opera Diva’, explains how the birds taught her to sing and why she played music to her son, didgeridoo virtuoso Willam Barton, even before he was born.
Melbourne's Cedar Quartet progresses to a coveted Australian Festival of Chamber Music Fellowship after participating in the AFCM Pathways Program this year.
Lerida Delbridge's first year as festival director celebrates Blackheath's vivid autumn with two world premieres, a Beethoven celebration and more.
Sweet and lowdown: David Campbell and colleagues explore bass-driven and rarely heard works.
It was the intensity of the musical experience that set this live event apart.
Cellist Mischa Maisky and his pianist daughter Lily Maisky bring their instinctive musical partnership to Australia for the first time.
With a week to go to vote for your favourite tracks in Limelight's Guide, the AMC's Catherine Haridy talks up the importance of Australian art music.
Tyran Parke’s new production of The Trumpet of the Swan puts theatrical imagination at the heart of Opera Australia’s new family show.
With a score by Nico Muhly, this immersive exploration of space and time finds its apotheosis in Tristan und Isolde.
Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera and La Fenice to join Australian artists in a gala honouring the legendary soprano.
After reported frustration with the organisation's programming of musicals, the Japanese billionaire's contract will lapse in December.
The vocal equivalent of two marathons back-to-back, this is Don Carlo and Il trovatore done right.
In its third year, the festival boasts two complete operas in a four-day celebration of music, food and country hospitality.
This comedy-horror musical in which a group of cheerleaders encounter a slasher feels unfocused, but you can't fault the terrific production.
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.
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.
This compilation of recordings released between 2016 and 2018 demonstrates a high standard of musicianship but is stylistically unbalanced.
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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