Australian Accent – September 2026
Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.
Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.
Soprano Louise Keast takes home the $43,000 prize, which will support her ambitions for an international singing career.
Swan Lake, Mayerling and Cinderella anchor a season of landmark revivals and contemporary choreographic masterpieces.
La Scala's subscription screen platform drops its paywall, making the Italian opera company's digital archive free worldwide.
Piers Lane, Emily Sun, Li-Wei Qin and the Chroma and Orava quartets to gather in Hobert for TCMF's seventh edition.
New rules on generative AI in music send a welcome message to artists, writes composer Alexis Weaver.
Twenty-five years after founding her innovative contemporary dance company, Lucy Guerin is ready to embrace the next chapter in her career.
Victorian Opera takes us inside its new adaptation of Helen Garner’s award-winning novel The Spare Room.
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A program of Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Stravinsky showcases these very special sibling talents.
A big warm hug of a show, full of deft theatrical touches and calculated mischief.
An uneasy meditation on the stories we tell ourselves and others.
Gamba duo Byrne and Vaughan traverse the centuries with delicate ease.
Splendid singing by Helena Dix, Rosario La Spina and Christopher Hillier compensates for a potboiler plot.
The Egyptian queen takes centre stage in this trimmed down version of The Bard’s historical tragedy.
In The Enormous Radio, Roslyn Oades and Bob Scott turn a circle of vintage radios into a listening station for the animal world.
Dominic Flynn's new work draws sonic material from a 1830s transcription that "fails to preserve" a traditional Palawa song.
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A new Melbourne Conservatorium of Music production brings Handel’s opera to life with period practice, fluid casting and youthful energy.
Twenty-five years after founding her innovative contemporary dance company, Lucy Guerin is ready to embrace the next chapter in her career.
As he prepares to tour Australia with a multi-sensory, all-Australian program, the harpist-composer chats about what's in store.
Ahead of his Sibelius cycle with the ASO, Mark Wigglesworth talks about the composer’s radical reinvention of the symphony.
By the end of his epic Brisbane Festival concert, Bowman will have explored virtually every corner of Bach's musical imagination.
Soprano Louise Keast takes home the $43,000 prize, which will support her ambitions for an international singing career.
Piers Lane, Emily Sun, Li-Wei Qin and the Chroma and Orava quartets to gather in Hobert for TCMF's seventh edition.
Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.
Victoria's Kingussie Trio make a triumphant return to the 2026 competition, securing the First Prize.
Active in Western Australia’s classical music community for more than four decades, Bonds was a skilled performer, educator, arranger and composer.
A program of Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Stravinsky showcases these very special sibling talents.
Soprano Louise Keast takes home the $43,000 prize, which will support her ambitions for an international singing career.
La Scala's subscription screen platform drops its paywall, making the Italian opera company's digital archive free worldwide.
A Kosky Kafka and a Castellucci Bartók among the keystone events of the 2027 Adelaide Festival.
Splendid singing by Helena Dix, Rosario La Spina and Christopher Hillier compensates for a potboiler plot.
State Opera South Australia finds a compelling darkness and light in Humperdinck’s enchanted forest.
Victorian Opera takes us inside its new adaptation of Helen Garner’s award-winning novel The Spare Room.
In a career spanning Australian television and British and American theatre, Ted Craig combined a director’s versatility with an actor’s understanding of performance.
In The Enormous Radio, Roslyn Oades and Bob Scott turn a circle of vintage radios into a listening station for the animal world.
A big warm hug of a show, full of deft theatrical touches and calculated mischief.
An uneasy meditation on the stories we tell ourselves and others.
A Kosky Kafka and a Castellucci Bartók among the keystone events of the 2027 Adelaide Festival.
Set designer Keerthi Subramanyam, costume designer Jennifer Irwin and lighting designer Paul Jackson are among those honoured.
Swan Lake, Mayerling and Cinderella anchor a season of landmark revivals and contemporary choreographic masterpieces.
Set designer Keerthi Subramanyam, costume designer Jennifer Irwin and lighting designer Paul Jackson are among those honoured.
From symphonic reinvention to new theatrical worlds, Limelight's September issue spotlights artists reshaping tradition while forging their own futures.
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Twenty-five years after founding her innovative contemporary dance company, Lucy Guerin is ready to embrace the next chapter in her career.
The Farm's Co-Artistic Director Gavin Webber introduces its new production, which addresses mortality and premieres at Brisbane Festival.
A monodrama steeped in musical history brings us brutally into the present day.
Harpist Emily Granger's seventh album is aptly named.
Stasevska and the BBC give terrific performances of under-heard Ukrainian music.
Hough digs deep to find a treasure chest of miniature gems.
Second time around proves even better care of period instruments.
Sensitive singing and pianism bring Mahler’s early songs to vivid life.
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