• Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Music on Sundays 2: Spirit of the Violin

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    With entertaining and informative hosts, our Music on Sundays concerts are the perfect pre-lunch activity in the heart of South Bank, in a convenient 90-minute timeslot. A violin showcase of electrifying flair. Led by conductor Jessica Gethin and featuring Principal First Violin Johnny van Gend, this concert is a celebration…
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    Canberra International Music Festival: Bell Plains

    National Carillon Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti’s 2026 program is deeply rooted in place, from site-specific bell works at Parliament House and the National Carillon to chamber and choral premieres. Anna-Louise Cole sings Wagner Lieder and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, the Australian String Quartet surveys British music from Purcell to Britten and Rebecca…
    Editor's Choice Steel Magnolias

    Woodward Productions & Neil Gooding Productions: Steel Magnolias

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Robert Harling wrote his 1987 play Steel Magnolias after his sister died from complications relating to diabetes following the birth of her son. The tragicomedy is set in Truvy’s beauty parlour in a small Southern town in Louisiana, where a group of women support each other through life’s ups and…
    Anastasia

    John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia: Anastasia

    Sydney Lyric Theatre 55 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia
    Anastasia The Broadway Musical, the romantic and adventure-filled hit musical inspired by the beloved film, is coming to Australia for the first time! This dazzling production, by the Tony Award winning team Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens and Darko Tresnjak, transports you from the twilight years of the Imperial…
    Editor's Choice The Last Ship

    QPAC: The Last Ship

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    International superstar Sting comes to Brisbane to play  a lead role in this deeply personal musical, for which he wrote music and lyrics. Inspired by Sting’s childhood in the industrial town of Wallsend in the UK, The Last Ship tells the moving story of a community facing the closure of…
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    Canberra International Music Festival: Tales of Fragile Sensations

    Snow Concert Hall 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti’s 2026 program is deeply rooted in place, from site-specific bell works at Parliament House and the National Carillon to chamber and choral premieres. Anna-Louise Cole sings Wagner Lieder and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, the Australian String Quartet surveys British music from Purcell to Britten and Rebecca…

    The Southern Concert: Dorinda & Olimpia

    St Paul's Anglican Church, Manuka 70 Canberra Avenue, Griffith, ACT, Australia
    The Southern Concert presents an afternoon of enticing Italian baroque music with soprano Greta Claringbould, Shaun Ng (theorbo), Stephen Freeman and Lauren Davis (violin), Odette Bruinzeel (viola), Clara Teniswood (violoncello) and Rosalind Halton (harpsichord). Come and hear the intimate sound of the theorbo accompanying Greta in two cantatas by Alessandro…

    The Southern Concert: Dorindsa & Olimpia

    St Paul's Anglican Church, Manuka 70 Canberra Avenue, Griffith, ACT, Australia
    The Southern Concert presents an afternoon of Italian baroque music with soprano Greta Claringbould, Shaun Ng (theorbo), Stephen Freeman and Lauren Davis (violin), Odette Bruinzeel (viola), Clara Teniswood (violoncello) and Rosalind Halton (harpsichord). Come and hear the intimate sound of the theorbo accompanying Greta in two cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti…
    Editor's Choice The Sapphires

    Queensland Theatre Company: The Sapphires

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Tony Briggs’ popular musical The Sapphires debuted at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2004 and has since been staged in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, London and South Korea. In 2021, it was adapted into a film starring Jessica Mauboy and Miranda Tapsell. Based on the true story of Briggs’ mother, Laurel Robinson, The Sapphires is set…

    UKARIA: Leonkoro Quartet | Opus 131

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    In their second offering for UKARIA, the Leonkoro Quartet presents a unique selection of Austro-German voices old and new. The lavish late-Romantic vocabulary of Anton Webern’s 1905 single-movement Langsamer Satz is testament to the influence of his teacher Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht. From late-Romanticism, the Leonkoro Quartet shifts towards a…
    Editor's Choice Don Giovanni

    Melbourne Opera: Don Giovanni

    Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Suzanne Chaundy directs a new production of Don Giovanni, Mozart and Da Ponte’s tale of lust laid low by supernatural forces. Christopher Tonkin headlines as the diabolical rake, with Henry Shaw as his wily servant Leporello and Eleanor Greenwood as Donna Elvira, the woman who can’t quite give him up. Lee…

    Camberwell Chorale: Mozart “Requiem” and Michael Easton “Unsung Heroes”

    Hawthorn Arts Centre Burwood Road, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
    Mozart’s final and most profound work, his Requiem, is a powerful and moving choral work renowned for dramatic intensity, stirring sequences, rich harmonies and evocative use of choir and orchestra. Exploring themes of mourning, hope, and redemption, the Mozart Requiem is one of the most enduring and celebrated pieces in…