Find out what's on stage and streaming online in December from Limelight editors Jo Litson, Angus McPherson and Clive Paget.

Das Rheingold will open at Melbourne's newly renovated Regent Theatre in February, with the Cycle culminating in 2023.

The entirely WA program takes the river as its theme and includes a range of new work, with a strong Noongar component.

In this new production, directed by Joseph Mitchell and conducted by its composer Richard Mills, the opera has finally found its place and worth.

A visual feast for opera buffs and sticky beaks alike.

Male soprano Mariño is in luck with Gluck and Handel.

Plenty of laughs and action in Weinberg’s Russian Jewish kitchen drama.

Tenorial champions square up for thrilling bouts of vocal sparring.

Glorious Baroque music from Camerata showcased luscious soprano Sofia Troncoso as the Queen of the Nile.

Read our features on religion, music and immortality, a Brazilian opera festival where everything is free, adapting literature for the theatre, as well as an extract from Alex Ross’s new book Wagnerism.

OA is announcing its 2021 program in stages. This first season includes Ernani, Bluebeard's Castle, The Merry Widow and Tosca. Lyndon Terracini also addresses the company restructure and redundancies.

We speak to the Australian director who takes up his new position with the company this month.