• Editor's Choice

    Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Antique Shards

    St John's Anglican Church, Port Fairy 21 Regent St, Port Fairy, VIC, Australia
    Curators Monica Curro and Stefan Cassomenos have set out to examine our heritage and bloodlines, and to rejoice in “the miracle of how millions of notes in the hands of master musicians are crafted into stunning sonic stories,” all the while paying homage to the Ancient Greek mosaic and the…
    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…
  • Editor's Choice Wundig wer Wilura in Concert

    West Australian Opera: Wundig wer Wilura in Concert

    Albany Entertainment Centre 2 Toll Pl,, Albany, 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…
    Editor's Choice Wundig wer Wilura in Concert

    West Australian Opera: Wundig wer Wilura in Concert

    Albany Entertainment Centre 2 Toll Pl,, Albany, 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…
    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…
    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…
    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…
    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…
    Editor's Choice Boojum!

    Victorian Opera: Boojum!

    Horticultural Hall 31 Victoria Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith’s 1977 work Boojum! received its premiere at the 1986 Adelaide Festival, directed by Gale Edwards. Sitting somewhere on the fault line between opera and musical theatre, it takes characters from Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and interweaves them with the Victorian author’s classic nonsense…
    Editor's Choice Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Sydney Theatre Company: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    When Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre presented Edward Albee’s corrosive black comedy in late 2023, with Kat Stewart as Martha and her real-life husband David Whiteley as George, the season sold out before it opened and extended. Hailed as “electrifying”, the production, directed by Sarah Goodes, then had a commercial season at…