This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

In the elemental surroundings, Korean star Sumi Jo steals the show with a performance that takes root in the memory.

Strong in Sydney, soft elsewhere, Opera Australia's annual report reveals a $10.1 million deficit for 2024.

British director Netia Jones brings a hi-tech approach to Pinchgut Opera's The Fairy Queen, but music and story always come first, she tells Limelight.

Opposites attract as Davidsen and Finley headline a magnificent new Dutchman.

Dane Lam forges international collaborations with a multiverse Magic Flute and a brand new Roméo et Juliette.

Focused on fat shaming and size prejudice, Neil LaBute's black comedy Fat Pig is story that belongs on an opera stage, says librettist Miriam Gordon-Stewart.

A fine operatic metaphor for the transience and troubles of modern life, but Flight's rhyming libretto reduces uplift.

From high notes to deep brass, June’s Limelight hits all the right chords in music, theatre and more!

Parrwang Lifts the Sky is a timely reminder of the importance of connection: to country, to one another, and to truth.

Soprano Nicole Car dazzles in this thoughtfully programmed concert also featuring her baritone husband Étienne Dupuis.

“Writing opera feels like an expedition,” says Mary Finsterer ahead of the premiere of her latest creation. “You’re a scientist, an archaeologist, a dreamer."