Rusalka is a potent reminder that opera is a hybrid beast with real power to engage and sometimes overwhelm.

Breaking the Waves director Anne-Louise Sarks talks to Limelight about the opera version of one of the most harrowing films of the 1990s.

French director Laurent Pelly’s hit production of the Massenet favourite to open Opera Australia's 2025 campaign.

Felicity Tomkins has won $43,000 to support further overseas study and career development.

Restoring the mythic nature of Virgil’s epic to Purcell's Baroque masterpiece, Yaron Lifschitz sets a new benchmark for opera production in Australia.

Ahead of Opera Australia’s Puccini Gala, conductor Daniel Smith and soprano Julie Lea Goodwin put the composer’s genius under the microscope.

Opera in the UK needs to be more relevant and diverse, but ultimately investment and education are what's needed to secure its future.

Trent Dalton. Coco Chanel. Anton Bruckner. Casey Donovan. What's the connection? They're all featured in an all-star August issue of Limelight. Don't miss it!

Emerging artists interpret numerous oddballs of history in this handsomely staged production of a forgotten mid-century gem.

A near-perfect night at the opera does Puccini proud, with Suor Angelica proven to be the indispensable heart of the work.

After a week-long winter intensive program at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon announces a new First Nations opera will premiere in 2025.

Connor D'Netto, Peter Knight, Andrée Greenwell and Freya Schack-Arnott are among those supported through the inaugural matched funding initiative.