• Sydney Opera House: Sunny Kim’s Ensemble Ochaye Water Song

    Sydney Opera House - The Utzon Room
    In this special presentation in The Studio, immerse yourself in a cross-cultural collaboration celebrating water as a symbol of connection and renewal, weaving together multicultural narratives, Korean, Chinese, Iranian and Western instruments to create a sonically immersive soundscape. Water Song is led by acclaimed South Korean-Australian vocalist and composer Sunny…
    Editor's Choice Festival Talks and Masterclasses

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Festival Talks and Masterclasses

    Quartet Bar by Corryton Burge
    Reuben Kaye, the new Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, has chosen the theme of Delicious Revolution for his inaugural program. (Read our interview with him on page 65.) Speaking to Limelight, he says, “From Aussie icons and international acts of immense fame to basement-dwelling unknowns . . . this is a…
    Monteverdi Vespers

    Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Monteverdi Vespers

    St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend 47 Urquhart St, Woodend, VIC, Australia
    Monteverdi’s 1610 setting of Vespers is among the greatest works of the Early Baroque. A 400th anniversary performance was given at our Festival in 2010, and it now returns by popular demand. While we tend to associate Monteverdi’s choral writing with Venice, this work was written while he was working in Mantua;…

    Tempo Rubato: Anna da Silva Chen – Obsession

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Mostly unknown yet strangely familiar gems from three centuries of solo violin music, featuring composers whose voices are too singular to be ignored. Works by Nicola Matteis Jr, Thomas Green, Max Reger, Johann Georg Pisendel and Eugène Ysaÿe. Anna da Silva Chen is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most…

    Therese Milanovic: Hilary Kleinig and Emily Granger – Alone : Together

    Plant Empire 15/55 Lofter St Tennyson, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    ALONE : TOGETHER is the debut solo album by award-winning cellist / composer, Hilary Kleinig. Hilary Kleinig's album explores the sonic possibilities of the cello - bowed, plucked, harmonic and percussive - played alone but together with looping layers and echoes of self. Fusing influences of folk, classical, EDM and…

    Apeiron Baroque: Afternoon Hours

    Wesley Uniting Church Forrest ACT 20 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT
    The Afternoon Hours evoke memories of calm, reflection, and nostalgia… a bridge between the active daytime and the quieter evening. On 7th of June, Apeiron is going to spend one (or tiny little bit more than one…) of these hours exploring music for Traverso (flute) and Baroque ensemble! Join us…
    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Genesian Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird

    St Joseph's Church Hall Gordon Street, Rozelle, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step into 1930s Alabama, where the trial of a young Black man accused of a terrible crime shakes a seemingly peaceful town to its core. Through the eyes of Scout Finch, Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic comes alive on stage in a moving story of prejudice, compassion and the fight…

    Master Music Studio: Alexander Yau in Recital – Humour & Horizons

    Master Music Studio Unit 6, 80 Wentworth Park Rd, Glebe, NSW, Australia
    In Humour & Horizons, Alexander Yau traverses wit, lyricism, and drama across eras. Beethoven’s intimate Op. 101 and Schumann’s mercurial Humoreske reveal playful introspection, while Debussy’s evocative Préludes paint shifting sonic landscapes. The journey culminates in the fiery urgency of Prokofiev’s Sixth Sonata—bold, restless, and electrifying.
    To Kill A Mockingbird

    Genesian Theatre Company: To Kill A Mockingbird

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step into 1930s Alabama where the trial of a young Black man accused of a terrible crime shakes a seemingly peaceful town to its core. Through the eyes of Scout, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic comes alive on stage in a moving story of prejudice, compassion and the fight for…
    RED by Dancenorth Australia

    RISING Festival: RED by Dancenorth Australia

    Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Dancenorth Australia brings RED to RISING Festival as part of the inaugural Australian Dance Biennale this 3-7 June. ABOUT RED RED is an uncompromising duet set inside a large transparent inflatable dome - a modern parable of two bodies moving within a world that can no longer sustain them. As…
    Belvoir Theatre: The Birds

    Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir Theatre: The Birds

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    PAULA ARUNDELL GOES WILD IN A NEW TAKE ON DAPHNE DU MAURIER’S CLASSIC “How many millions of years of memory are stored in those brains? Behind the stabbing beaks. Behind the piercing eyes.” Nature isn’t behaving. The weather is doing strange things, the sea and sky sound different, and things…