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Classical Music, Orchestral
features

World Premiere: Concerto del Motore

Joe Chindamo’s new concerto for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra puts the pedal to the metal with drifter (and clarinettist) Dean Newcomb.

April 15, 2026
Opera
features

Stacey Alleaume: Looking for Violetta

Playing the tragic heroine of Verdi's La traviata is one of opera’s most difficult balancing acts but Stacey Alleaume relishes the challenge.

April 14, 2026
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Opera
features

Listen to the Australian Art Music playlist: April 2026 – Regional Australia

Cameron Lam’s Australian Art Music playlist focuses on Classical, Jazz, and Sound Art made outside of our capital cities this month.

April 13, 2026
Chamber, Classical Music
features

Coriole Music Festival 2026: Reflections and connections

“I’m very passionate about music being alive,” says Artistic Director Kate Suthers of her first Coriole Music Festival. “There’s a responsibility to invite people to discover."

April 9, 2026
Classical Music
features

How Kitty Whately fell for Madeleine Dring

The British mezzo on art song gold and the danger of first impressions.

April 7, 2026
Opera, Opinion
features

Do people still care about opera? An insider raises some doubts

Timothée Chalamet's controversial comments and a new book by Caitlin Vincent, Opera Wars, lead Peter Tregear to ponder what (and who) is opera for?

April 2, 2026
Chamber, Classical Music, Experimental
features

Australian Accent – April 2026

Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.

April 1, 2026
Chamber, Classical Music
features

Dance and diplomacy: the soft power of Jean-Baptiste Lully

Louis XIV's Master of the King's Music was a charming backstabber whose ruthlessness matched the monarch's.

March 31, 2026
Opinion
features

AI is not the enemy: Why resistance risks holding us back

Does the framing of AI as a threat place limits on our thinking about a technology that may prove meaningful and constructive in creative practice?

March 24, 2026
Classical Music, Opera, Theatre
features

Read the April 2026 issue of Limelight

From Mahler’s audacious First Symphony to site-specific bells and Sting's working-class roots, April’s issue explores music, place and identity.

March 23, 2026
Classical Music, Festivals
features

Sonic Identity

In his second program as Artistic Director of the Canberra International Music Festival, Eugene Ughetti presents a lineup rich in site-specific bell works.

March 23, 2026
Classical Music, Opera
features

Keeping Opera Alive

In her new book Opera Wars, Caitlin Vincent takes a lively, illuminating, insightful and, at times, irreverent look at the world of opera.

March 23, 2026
Musical Theatre & Cabaret
features

Sting in the Tale

Sting not only wrote the book and lyrics for The Last Ship, he will also play the leading role when the show arrives in Brisbane. He tells us why he wanted to write a musical.

March 23, 2026

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