Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts proposes post-COVID roadmap while reports reveal enormous impact of the pandemic.

The coveted $25,000 grant has been awarded to the Australian mezzo-soprano through Melba Opera Trust by Dame Heather Begg’s estate.

Our Recording of the Month for November is Bellini's I Puritani, with American tenor Lawrence Brownlee. He talks to Clive Paget about Kaunas, Lithuania's unlikely opera centre, and the challenges of casting this epic work.

The 2022 Adelaide Festival program from Joint Artistic Directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy features 71 events including nine world premieres and six Australian premieres.

Victorian Opera has announced a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas story for its 2022 season, to be written by composer Graeme Koehne and librettist Anna Goldsworthy.

November is Australian Music Month across the ABC, and ABC Classic’s concert schedule for the month features some stunning works by Australian composers – some old, some new.

In this month's features we talk to Barrie Kosky about The Golden Cockerel, run an extract by Leigh Sales from the book Well Hello, explore the role of music reviewers today, and examine the pleasures and perils of writing music for the screen.

Amidst this fast-paced, and at times mad reading of Mozart’s masterpiece, the opera ultimately triumphs, with Jeremy Kleeman particularly impressive as Figaro.

Why Barrie Kosky’s strange, dreamlike staging of The Golden Cockerel is unlike any other production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s final opera.

Lithuanian band and American leads slam dunk Italian opera on English Civil War.

This month’s news round-up includes the return of the arts, Opera Australia’s latest outdoor spectacle, Queensland Ballet’s new home on the Gold Coast, the triumph of Moulin Rouge! The Musical at the Tony Awards, and the winners at the 2021 Art Music Awards.

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.