• Editor's Choice Born in Vienna

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Born in Vienna: Concert 3

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth curates a weekend celebrating Vienna’s role in shaping orchestral music. Concert 1 pairs Mozart’s Symphony No. 1 with Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante and Beethoven’s bold First Symphony. Concert 2 features the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and Mozart’s majestic Jupiter Symphony. The…
    Editor's Choice Cocteau’s Circle

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Cocteau’s Circle

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Richard Tognetti and the ACO close their 50th- anniversary season in style, stepping into the surreal world of 1920s Paris. Directed by Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz, this concert-cum-cabaret features soprano Chloe Lankshear with drag artist and baritone Le Gateau Chocolat as maître d’. Inspired by Jean Cocteau’s avant-garde circle and the…
    Editor's Choice Joyce DiDonato

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Ryman Healthcare Spring Gala: Joyce DiDonato

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato performs Les nuits d’été, a setting of Théophile Gautier’s poems about love and loss. One of the earliest orchestral song cycles, Berlioz initially wrote it for voice and piano in 1840–41, orchestrating the first song two years later and the remaining five in 1856. It is performed alongside…

    Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: Elgar’s Cello Concerto

    Federation Concert Hall Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto is one of the most beloved of all pieces of music. And it’s not hard to understand why. It has a vulnerability and integrity which people can relate to. In place of flashy heroics, Elgar brings us longing, doubt, struggle and the justness of the good…
    Editor's Choice Carmen

    Opera Australia: Carmen

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Anne-Louise Sarks is at the helm for a new production of Carmen that brings Bizet’s classic bang up to date. An intriguing lineup of talent is headed by Danielle de Niese as Carmen, alternating with Sian Sharp. Mexican-Spanish tenor Abraham Bretón shares the role of Don José with Diego Torre,…

    The Parish Church of St James’ King Street: Stephen Hough’s Missa Mirabilis

    St James Church, Sydney 173 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    An Australian premiere performance of Missa Mirabilis is a sacred choral work by composer and pianist Sir Stephen Hough, which he named after his near-fatal car accident in 2007. Commissioned by Westminster Cathedral it is characterized by its dramatic power, eclecticism, and complex emotional and musical content, especially in the…
    Remember Bachfest

    Austral Harmony: Bach Obbligato Concert

    Greenaway Studio 164 Namatjira Drive, Chapman, ACT, Australia
    Bach Obbligato concludes Austral Harmony's 9th REMEMBER BACHfest in Canberra. Featuring Bach's unique obbligato writing for harpsichord, performed by Phillip Gearing on a Goble instrument, and including movements from BWV 1019 with baroque violin, from BWV 1030 with baroque oboe, and arrangement of a celebrated Organ Trio.

    Sydney Mandolin Orchestra: In The Southern Highlands

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    Robert Margo, Classical Mandolin Society of America For its debut performance in Bowral, SMO will present an afternoon of classical, romantic and contemporary mandolin and guitar music at its finest! SMO’s precision plucking, shimmering tremolo, and strident strumming is sure to captivate you through an eclectic program of music from…

    Selby & Friends: Epic Diva

    Turramurra Uniting Church 10 Turramurra Ave, Turramurra, NSW, Australia
    Our 2025 Season comes to a close with a blockbuster program of big piano quartets filled to the brim with the most gorgeous melodies and boasting two of our most beloved chamber musicians in Liz Layton and Julian Smiles with an introduction to another brilliant young Australian artist, violist Isabella…
    Nightingale

    Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Nightingale

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Baroque and modern treasures in an explosion of colour and energy. Harpsichordist Donald Nicolson brings an infectious enthusiasm and a sparkling musicality to everything he does. This program sees him take centre stage, both as guest director from the keyboard and as the soloist in Bach’s stunning first harpsichord concerto.…

    UKARIA: Kristian Winther with Konstantin Shamray

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    For this program – contrary to my own general philosophy of being anti-‘curation’, or in other words, of being against the modern norm of taking multiple historical works of genius and stringing them together in such a way as to unnecessarily impose the curator’s own artistic ‘vision’ of a particular…