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    • Opera for the Dead

    OzAsia Festival: Opera for the Dead

    Odeon Theatre, Norwood 57a Queen St, Norwood, SA, Australia
    A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that reimagines the connection between life and death. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, Opera for the Dead 祭歌 is an immersive, multi-artform performance combining live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Move freely through the shifting performance space as…

    Collins Street Baptist Church: Twilight Harmony

    Collins St Baptist Church 170 Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Twilight Harmony features classical works by Australian and Ukrainian classical composers. The concert will feature two premieres of Australian works, including The Crossing Machine performing Stuart Greenbaum's new string quartet "Midnight", in reference to a Ukrainian folk song. Original works by Michael Nurse (piano trio) and Jonathan Xian (piano) will…

    Moonbird Festival: Welcome Party and Opening Concert

    King Island Hub 38 Lighthouse Street, Currie, Tasmania, Australia
    The 2025 Moonbird Festival opens with a stunning program for string quartet and guitar, featuring award winning Australian guitarist Andrew Blanch, recently returned from a sold out concert tour of the USA. Two evocative Australian guitar quintets, Anne Cawrse’s Imperfect Fourths and Iain Grandage’s Black Dogs, frame this program that…
    Elastic Hearts

    HOTA: Elastic Hearts

    HOTA 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia
    Step into a powerful new dance experience with Elastic Hearts — a bold fusion of contemporary ballet and the chart-topping music of pop icon Sia, brought to life with a cinematic score specially recorded by Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Choreographed and directed by Garry Stewart, the visually stunning production is a…
    Beethoven’s Eighth

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven’s Eighth

    Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Corner of Clarence and Hay Streets, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
    Ah, those summer nights in Eastern Europe, 1812. A week after Napoleon invades Russia, Ludwig van Beethoven almost certainly says “Yes, tonight Josephine” to the love of his life, the unhappily married and recently jilted but socially impossible match, Countess Jozefina Brunszvik. Three days later he pours forth - with…

    Coffs Harbour Music Society: Ziggy and Miles

    St John Paul College Theatre 421 Hogbin Drive, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
    The sensational guitar duo brothers perform in Coffs Harbour a program of their own arrangemnts, plus Nigel Westlake, Piazzolla, Christopher Sainsubyry and Gnattali. Join us from 6:30pm for a free pre-concert talk in the theatre. Presented in association with Musica Viva Australia.
    Cottis conducts The Planets

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Cottis conducts The Planets

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    LOGOS is a ‘musical Big Bang’, beginning with the breath and building to a dramatic orchestral climax. Expansive and layered, this beguiling work by Danish–Australian composer Benjamin de Murashkin reflects the order of mathematics and the mystery of the sublime, drawing inspiration from Tibetan music created to keep dark spiritual forces at bay.…
    Pandaemonium

    West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Pandaemonium

    Studio Underground 178 William St, Perth, WA, Australia
    Explore the exhilarating diversity of music by six of Australia’s most creative composers, led by one of the most exciting young conductors in the country. Works by Lachlan Skipworth, Olivia Davies and Melody Eötvös will be accompanied by evocative moving images. Jordan Moore and Stephen de Filippo will unleash powerful,…
    Opera for the Dead

    OzAsia Festival: Opera for the Dead

    Odeon Theatre, Norwood 57a Queen St, Norwood, SA, Australia
    A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that reimagines the connection between life and death. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, Opera for the Dead 祭歌 is an immersive, multi-artform performance combining live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Move freely through the shifting performance space as…
    Editor's Choice Wundig wer Wilura in Concert

    West Australian Opera: Wundig wer Wilura in Concert

    Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre 2 Blair Street, Bunbury, WA, Australia
    Wundig wer Wilura is a Noongar language opera by Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse that tells a tale of star-crossed lovers from the Dreaming. Wundig, a handsome hunter from the Hills people, is smitten with Wilura, a beautiful young woman from the Grass people. But true love doesn’t go according to…
    Elder Con Lunchtime Concert

    Elder Conservatorium: Top Class

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Our annual classical performance showcase concert, featuring top student performers from the Elder Conservatorium of Music. Supported by the Peter Brooker Prize for Musical Excellence.
    Affinity Quartet – Incantation

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Affinity Quartet – Incantation

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Considered a groundbreaking work from the moment it premiered in 1893, Debussy’s only string quartet, with its shimmering textures and innovative harmonies, transports audiences to an impressionistic world. A defining moment in chamber music, Debussy left an undeniable mark on future composers including French-born Héloïse Werner. Described as ‘a composer…

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