• Newcastle Music Festival: Opera Cocktails

    Stanley Park 77 Fullerton Cove Road, Fullerton Cove, NSW, Australia
    Newcastle Music Festival's annual Opera Cocktails soiree at The Barn at Stanley Park is always a glittering event. Your ticket includes a delicious finger food supper and Tamburlaine Organic Wines. Bookings are essential. This event showcases both emerging and acclaimed stars of Australian opera and has been proud to feature…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Quick Fix – Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Tchaikovsky’s decisive Symphony No.5 will leave you firmly grounded in the human experience as it travels through the universal experiences of challenge and triumph. The opening notes establish the role of ‘fate’ (much like another famous 'Fifth' Symphony by Beethoven). While the reoccurring theme throughout this work may reflect Tchaikovsky's…
    Live at the Great: Maayan Licht, Coloratura Queen

    Live At Yours: Live at the Great: Maayan Licht, Coloratura Queen

    The Great Synagogue 187 Elizabeth St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Imagine Farinelli meets Freddie Mercury — and you’re sitting close enough to feel the electricity. Maayan Lichtarrives in Australia for his long-awaited debut with a voice so high, so fearless, it feels almost impossible… until you hear it live. Joined by the brilliant Neal Peres da Costa leading a hand-picked Baroque ensemble, Licht detonates…
    Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Musica Viva Australia: Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    In the intricate weave of sounds that make up a baroque ensemble, the lute is central. It’s fitting, then, that French-American lutenist Thomas Dunford is at the centre of some of the most exciting early music making of the moment. A regular collaborator with everyone from Les Arts Florissants to…

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Masterclass with Håkan Hardenberger

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Over the course of his fascinating and wide-ranging career, Håkan Hardenberger has been a committed advocate for his instrument. He has widened the repertoire, pushed technical possibilities and inspired a new generation of brass players. In this masterclass he shares performance skills and musical insights with our 2026 Fellows –…
    Weddings and Parties Over Coffee

    Bach Akademie Australia: Weddings and Parties Over Coffee

    Wesley Music Centre 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Experience unforgettable, homegrown artistry as Bach Akademie Australia presents ‘Weddings & Parties Over Coffee’ a five-city national tour to Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra and Glenbrook, featuring two of Australia’s finest vocalists, award-winning soprano Miriam Allan and her father, acclaimed baritone Christopher Allan, from Wednesday 5th to Sunday 16th August. Award-winning,…
    The Drover’s Wife

    Opera Australia: The Drover’s Wife

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    They will say a story ended, those who cannot understand, no-one’s story ends forever, our Dreaming is forever. Molly Johnson is a survivor. Heavily pregnant, she’s left alone to care for her children in a remote Snowy Mountains shanty. Between the snakes, bullocks and hostile travellers on her doorstep, she…
    Live at the Great: Maayan Licht, Coloratura Queen

    Live At Yours: Live at the Great: Maayan Licht, Coloratura Queen

    The Great Synagogue 187 Elizabeth St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Imagine Farinelli meets Freddie Mercury — and you’re sitting close enough to feel the electricity. Maayan Lichtarrives in Australia for his long-awaited debut with a voice so high, so fearless, it feels almost impossible… until you hear it live. Joined by the brilliant Neal Peres da Costa leading a hand-picked Baroque ensemble, Licht detonates…
    Vivaldi’s Legacy

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Legacy

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    In this intimate and poetic program, acclaimed Paris-based violinist Augusta McKay Lodge makes her Australian debut as soloist and Guest Director, shining a light on one of Baroque music’s most fascinating and overlooked figures — Anna Maria della Pietà. A virtuoso who lived and performed at the Venetian orphanage where…
    Editor's Choice Rigoletto

    Opera Australia: Rigoletto

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Verdi’s embittered jester makes a welcome return in Elijah Moshinsky’s typically insightful production. Celebrated Czech baritone Dalibor Jenis dons the twisted clown greasepaint as he reprises the title role, with Korean-Australian soprano Gemma Nha making her OA debut as his daughter Gilda and Australian-Chinese tenor Kang Wang as the dissolute…
    Orchestral Dances with Håkan Hardenberger

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral Dances with Håkan Hardenberger

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    No stranger to the spotlight, Hardenberger takes centre stage for Aerial, a work written with and for him by Austrian composer HK Gruber. Described by the Chicago Tribune as ‘a weird, wondrous, exhilarating tour de force”, it’s a repertoire-expanding piece full of extended techniques and prismatic colours. Believe us when…
    Orchestral Dances with Håkan Hardenberger

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral Dances with Håkan Hardenberger

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    No stranger to the spotlight, Hardenberger takes centre stage for Aerial, a work written with and for him by Austrian composer HK Gruber. Described by the Chicago Tribune as ‘a weird, wondrous, exhilarating tour de force”, it’s a repertoire-expanding piece full of extended techniques and prismatic colours. Believe us when…