This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
March 20, 2023
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
March 20, 2023
A round-up of our recent news reports.
March 20, 2023
The director of Melbourne Opera’s Ring Cycle recalls the classical input of her grandparents, and being astonished when she first heard an opera singer’s voice in rehearsals.
March 20, 2023
A new and city-specific adaptation of Dmitri Shostakovich’s satirical operetta skewers the Australian housing crisis.
March 17, 2023
Less is more in this final instalment of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, with vocal fireworks honouring the memory of the divas responsible for the bel canto revival.
March 17, 2023
From Isolde to Cleopatra, Decca unearths treasures the artist thought should languish in the vaults.
March 17, 2023
OA and VO to present an epic staging of Mozart’s Idomeneo for three performances at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda.
March 14, 2023
“We have lost one of our finest musical lights". The popular conductor and pianist (Robert) Andrew Greene died on Sunday, aged 66.
March 13, 2023
Starring José Carbó and Anna-Louise Cole, Opera Queensland's static, stand-and-deliver staging of Verdi’s Macbeth yielded mixed results.
March 10, 2023
Features include the story behind the Dunera Mass, Stuart Maunder's love of Gilbert and Sullivan, Joanna Murray-Smith's new play Julia, and pianist Zubin Kanga's explorations with state-of-the-art technology.
March 10, 2023
A medical emergency and vocal problems couldn’t mar Christian Spuck’s monumental staging of Verdi’s masterpiece.
March 9, 2023