Composers Alice Chance and Alex Turley are among the recipients of financial support to create new operatic work.

Luxury casting guarantees a thrill-a-minute concert as Verdi’s masterpiece lands west of the Divide.

Accompanied by Glenn Amer, Lee Abrahmsen and Warwick Fyfe save the day with a masterclass that would do Wagner proud.

Timothée Chalamet's controversial comments and a new book by Caitlin Vincent, Opera Wars, lead Peter Tregear to ponder what (and who) is opera for?

Niquet and Charvet’s bristling Carmen challenge Gardiner’s HIP first choice.

Honouring its 40-year legacy with a phantastic new Phantom at the helm, this spectacular outdoor staging of Lloyd Webber’s megamusical is unmissable.

From Mahler’s audacious First Symphony to site-specific bells and Sting's working-class roots, April’s issue explores music, place and identity.

In her new book Opera Wars, Caitlin Vincent takes a lively, illuminating, insightful and, at times, irreverent look at the world of opera.

After living in the UK for two decades, Helena Dix is back. And now there's "no more sitting like a puppy dog at an opera casting director’s door . . ."

Guy Noble has had enough of the abusive men who populate opera and would love to see a few rewrites.

Director Neil Armfield tells Steve Dow why his production of Cinderella for State Opera South Australia will have a 1970s twist.

This month mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately rediscovers the remarkable Madeleine Dring, plus contemporary works by Kalevi Aho, Daniel Bjarnason and Dan Walker, and operas by Lully and Vivaldi.