• 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…
    Editor's Choice Vivaldi’s Legacy

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Legacy

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Paris-based American violinist Augusta McKay Lodge makes her Australian debut as Guest Director in an intimate program dedicated to Venetian orphanage virtuoso Anna Maria della Pietà. With ABO Artistic Director Paul Dyer on harpsichord, the program explores Baroque chamber works, revealing a rare portrait of this overlooked multi-instrumentalist who inspired music…
    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…

    Live At Yours: Up Late At The Great – Maayan Licht, Coloratura Queen

    The Great Synagogue 187 Elizabeth St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    With more than 100 million TikTok views and hailed as "one of the absolute shooting stars of the international opera scene", countertenor Maayan Licht makes his Australian debut in Coloratura Queen, presented by Live at Yours. Launching the company's new Up Late concept, this one-hour late-night performance transforms Sydney's Great…
    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…

    Contra Concerts: Waves At Play  – Jonathan Henderson & Alex Raineri

    Uniting Heart and Soul Church, Woollahra 53A Ocean St, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
    Join flautist Jonathan Henderson and pianist Alex Raineri for an uplifting duo recital. Sally Whitwell’s Road Trip captures the gentle evolution of landscape glimpsed from a train window, the forward momentum of a silver bullet train reflected beautifully in its soaring, lyrical lines. Beethoven’s masterful Serenade Op. 41 celebrates poetry and…

    Live At Yours: Live At Toorak – Maayan Licht, Coloratura Queen

    Toorak Synagogue 2/8 Toorak rd, South Yarra, VIC, Australia
    With more than 100 million TikTok views and hailed as "one of the absolute shooting stars of the international opera scene", countertenor Maayan Licht makes his Australian debut in Coloratura Queen. Presented by Live at Yours, this electrifying one-night-only Melbourne performance pairs Licht with acclaimed keyboardist Neal Peres Da Costa…
    Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Musica Viva Australia: Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, 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…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Jaime conducts Mahler 6

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Mahler’s Sixth Symphony is a spectacle. The percussionist will flex their muscles, raise a massive hammer in the air, and blow it down with full force inside the concert hall! It’s a climactic point in the symphony that explores philosophical themes of fate and existential angst. Mahler composed it before…
    Editor's Choice The Merry Widow

    Opera Australia: The Merry Widow

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Graeme Murphy’s production of Lehár’s evergreen operetta receives a welcome revival. As Pontevedro teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, its ambassador will do whatever it takes to prevent the wealthy widow Hanna Glavari from marrying a foreigner. When her old flame Count Danilo refuses to marry for money, the result is…