• Editor's Choice Simone Young conducts Siegfried

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Simone Young conducts Siegfried

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The third instalment in Simone Young’s multi-year Ring Cycle features tenor Simon O’Neill as Siegfried. Stepping in for Anja Kampe, renowned Wagnerian soprano Miina-Liisa Värelä joins him for the climactic half-hour love duet – arguably the finest in the repertoire, and certainly the loudest. Värelä comes fresh from her role…
    Simone Young conducts Siegfried

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Simone Young conducts Siegfried

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The third instalment in Simone Young’s multi-year Ring Cycle features tenor Simon O’Neill as Siegfried. Stepping in for Anja Kampe, renowned Wagnerian soprano Miina-Liisa Värelä joins him for the climactic half-hour love duet – arguably the finest in the repertoire, and certainly the loudest. Värelä comes fresh from her role…
    Editor's Choice Noël! Noël

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Noël! Noël

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    ABO’s beloved Christmas concert returns, brimming with festive joy, angelic voices and a denser continuo section – that means more theorbos plus Baroque and Classical guitars galore! Paul Dyer conducts a program of timeless carols, rare festive works and contemporary classics, bringing together the Brandenburg Choir, Argentinian mezzo-soprano María Eugenia…
    Christmas 2025 Concert

    West Gippsland Chorale: Christmas 2025 Concert

    Need2Read 25B Victoria Street, Warragul, VIC, Australia
    Join us to experience the festive brilliance of Vivaldi's Gloria, Benjamin Britten's 'A Ceremony of Carols', as well as the Australian Premiere of Katharine Parton's 'Here is the little door'.
    Editor's Choice Hark! 2025

    The Song Company: Hark! 2025

    The Neilson, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    The Song Company’s annual festive celebration reflects on family, journeys home and the uplifting memories that bring us together at this time of year. Traditional Christmas favourites rub shoulders with contemporary works by the likes of Poulenc, Arvo Pärt, Judith Weir, Gabriel Jackson and Bob Chilcott. Australian composers, including Alice…
    Editor's Choice A Luminous Christmas

    Luminescence Chamber Singers: Christmas Classics

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    The Luminescence Chamber Singers have two festive programs this December. The first, Christmas Classics, ranges from medieval carols, through Mouton, Sweelinck, Bach and Britten, to Yuletide favourites like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. The second, A Sunburnt Christmas, offers more of a Down Under perspective on seasonal music. Bringing…

    Graduate Singers: Songs of Joy

    St Peter's Cathedral 27 King William Road, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Join Graduate Singers for a festive close to their year-long celebration of the incredible music of Sir John Rutter! His rich legacy to the choral world is most evident in his vast output of Christmas music. Blending traditional carols with contemporary techniques, his settings capture both the joy and the…
    Christmas 2025 Concert

    West Gippsland Chorale: Christmas 2025 Concert

    Need2Read 25B Victoria Street, Warragul, VIC, Australia
    Join us to experience the festive brilliance of Vivaldi's Gloria, Benjamin Britten's 'A Ceremony of Carols', as well as the Australian Premiere of Katharine Parton's 'Here is the little door'.
    Carols at the House

    Sydney Philharmonia Choirs: Carols at the House

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Here at Sydney Philharmonia Choirs we ‘really like Christmas’ – the festivity, the magic, the message of peace and harmony. Above all, we love raising the roof of the Sydney Opera House with Carols at the House! This family-friendly concert brings together hundreds of singers (with some audience participation, of course),…

    Sydney Philharmonia Choirs: Bach’s Christmas Oratorio

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “And lo, the star, which they had seen in the East, went before them…” Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental ‘oratorio’ for the Christmas season is really a set of six cantatas – one for each of the first six days of Christmas. Performing them together in concert is the musical equivalent…