• Editor's Choice Stravinsky, Mills & Shostakovich

    Australian World Orchestra: Stravinsky, Mills & Shostakovich

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Celebrating the AWO’s 15th anniversary, Chief Conductor Alexander Briger conducts Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, written in 1953 in the wake of Stalin’s death and widely regarded as one of the composer’s most powerful symphonic statements. The program also includes the world premiere of Jonathan Mills’ Songs for…

    Murray Dahm: Opera Lecture Series – The Operas of the Age of Puccini

    City of Sydney Creative Studios 119 Bathurst Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Since 2003, Opera Bites Co-Founder Murray Dahm has delivered accessible, friendly and informative lectures, drawing on its history, culture and music. Enjoy exploring a variety of areas of operatic history from composers and voice types through to genres and quirky bits of opera trivia. In the late 19th century, Italian…
    Mind Games: Art Alive

    Baeu Medina: Mind Games: Art Alive

    154 Broadway 154-160 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    A new, woman-led, interactive, immersive and independent experiential playground has opened in Chippendale, in Sydney’s inner suburbs – at a scale and level of detail that has not been done in Australia. Comprising multisensory installations such as holographic moon rooms to upside-down trains, mirrored mazes, and perception puzzles, Mind Games:…
    Second Coming

    La Boite: Second Coming

    La Boite Roundhouse Theatre Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia
    It’s 2065, Earth is burning, and time is running out. Geneticist Evie and the crew of the ARK MARK II spaceship are humanity’s last hope, charged with rescuing every species they can, two by two, for a new beginning on Mars. Lions, Javan warty pigs, and creatures of all kinds…
    Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre: Top Silk

    Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    For Jane Fredericks, the fight for justice is personal. As a passionate legal aid solicitor, Jane risks everything to help an old flame, and her world quickly unravels – both in the courtroom and at home. Her husband Trevor, a prominent barrister, faces his own ethical conundrum: defend a powerful…
    ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

    National Art School: ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

    National Art School Corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’ celebrates the legacy and significant achievements of Margaret Olley AC – National Art School alum and one of Australia’s most beloved painters – through the lens of the European artistic tradition intimisme, which honours the quiet poetry of domestic life and the interior world. Drawing from significant public and private…

    Artsite Contemporary: Judy Trick – Full Circle

    Artsite Contemporary 165-167 Salisbury Road, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
    Full Circle, is the most personal show Judy’s to date. The title borrows from the Japanese concept of Sunyata and the meditative Enso circle — an emptying out, a return to origins. Over the past two years, Judy found herself moving through quiet contemplation and back out into renewed energy…
    10 Nights in Port 2026

    City of Fremantle: 10 Nights in Port 2026

    Fremantle Town Hall 8 William St, Fremantle, WA, Australia
    The much-loved winter arts festival 10 Nights in Port returns. This August, 10 Nights in Port returns to Walyalup | Fremantle, transforming the city with a diverse program of visual art, performance, storytelling and installation. Centred on the 2026 theme of huddle, the festival invites audiences to experience warmth, light…
    Editor's Choice Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney: Fiddler On The Roof

    Theatre Royal, Sydney 108 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof is a much-loved classic for good reason. The glorious score by Bock and Harnick includes songs such as Tradition, If I Were a Rich Man, Matchmaker, Matchmaker and Sunrise, Sunset. Meanwhile, its plotline about religious persecution and displacement, foreshadowing The Holocaust, is depressingly timely –…

    Van Diemen’s Band: Meyers and Yap

    Burnie Arts and Function Centre 77-79 Wilmot Street,, Burnie, TAS, Australia
    Acclaimed fiddlers Katie Yap and Rachel Meyers bring their new duo project to the Lunchbox Concerts. Together they explore the confluence of folk and baroque music: haunting traditional tunes and songs sit alongside intricate original compositions and their own arrangements of pieces by baroque composers Henry Purcell and Diego Ortiz, all delivered with warmth,…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Niggunim – Music of the Jewish Soul

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Step into a sound world that evokes memory, longing, and imagination. Solo Piano and Cantorial Voice Recital. Niggunim from the Jewish High Holy Day Tradition. Yitzhak Yedid’s solo piano performances draw listeners into an immersive world of textures, colours, and emotion. Deceptively simple, his music reaches deep, touching a place…