2026: For Real
Our team of expert writers explores the challenges, themes and highlights in the year ahead for arts companies.
Our team of expert writers explores the challenges, themes and highlights in the year ahead for arts companies.
What do our small to medium ensembles have on offer in the year ahead?
What do our opera and dance companies have on offer in the year ahead?
What do our festivals have on offer in the year ahead?
What do our orchestras and choirs have on offer in the year ahead?
Musicians seem to adore Jaime Martín, as do audiences. We talk to the irrepressible Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Children’s music might be educational, but it can be so much more. We look at composers who wrote works specifically for children to play.
Turandot was radically different to anything Puccini had written before. To mark its centenary, Opera Australia is staging a new production.
In February, the Australian Chamber Orchestra premieres a work by John Luther Adams, who has now moved to Australia.
Tibetan-Australian musician Tenzin Choegyal explains why his cloudlike music carries the legacy of exile.
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason chats about her new album, Jane Austen’s Piano.
Mel Cantwell, Co-Artistic Director of Perth’s Lost and Found Opera, talks about the company’s relaunch at this year’s Perth Festival.
This month features a new deal for Vasily Petrenko, blockbusters from John Wilson and Fabio Luisi, Víkingur Ólafsson’s latest piano odyssey and beguiling songs by Rebecca Clarke.