Review: Everything and Nothing (Heather Mitchell)
An actor speaks, offering thoughts that are illuminating, humane, intelligent and sharp.
October 23, 2023
Review: Queer Opera (Andrew Sutherland)
More is less in this study of how the lived queer experience is represented in opera.
September 15, 2023
Rose Scott Women Writers’ Festival announces 2023 program
The Festival's 10th year is celebrated with a string of prolific Australian female writers across fiction, non-fiction, stage and screen.
August 28, 2023
Review: The Great White Bard (Farah Karim-Cooper)
A radical reassessment that refuses to throw the Bard out with the bathwater.
August 21, 2023
Review: Enough: Scenes from Childhood (Stephen Hough)
Insight, humour and the unexpected litter Hough’s childhood memoir.
July 24, 2023
Review: Inner Song (Jillian Graham)
This handsome new biography sets the record straight.
June 19, 2023
Review: Why We Sing (Julia Hollander)
Rich fruitcake of a book guaranteed to make you want to break into song.
May 11, 2023
Review: The Simonsens of St Kilda (Roger Neill)
Neill charts the remarkable adventures of a Melburnian operatic dynasty.
April 24, 2023
Quartet: Selective stories of women composers
Leah Broad's new book titled Quartet boldly claims that four women changed the musical world. But did they?
April 14, 2023
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March 20, 2023
Review: Silent Films/Loud Music (Phillip Johnston)
An Australian composer on music’s power to enrich the sound of silence.
March 20, 2023
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February 20, 2023
The March 2023 issue of Limelight is now available
This month we interview Sir Simon Rattle, violinist Jennifer Koh, Àlex Ollé of La Fura dels Baus and look at the importance of breath control for musicians.
February 20, 2023