We take an exclusive tour around the Sydney Opera House to learn about the mission to overhaul its Concert Hall.

Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason discuss the joy of growing up in a large, musical family.

On what could well be his last Australian visit, Zubin Mehta talks about his six-decade career, reuniting with the AWO, Strauss’s tone poems and his love of cricket.

Could Australia be on the cusp of a golden age of homegrown musicals?

Being moderately offensive is the lifeblood of humour, says Guy Noble, as he recalls being booed on stage and the witty on-air jousts between Clive Robertson and Caroline Jones.

It is vital the classical music world embraces new music by First Nations artists, so we learn to respect and understand their music and culture.

English tenor Allan Clayton discusses A Winter’s Journey, a new staging of Schubert’s mournful song cycle Winterreise, and explains why he is drawn to bleak work and outsider roles.

A round-up of our recent news reports.

Frustrated by website logins, Ian Whitney asks why arts organisations make it so hard for us to give them our money.

This month, we lead with gripping string quartets from the greatest composer nobody knew for years, plus a century of outstanding music by women, both home and away.

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As celebrated American violinist Hilary Hahn makes her long-awaited return to Australia, she tells us about the instruments she owns and the connective power of music.