Adelaide’s new festival, Illuminate Adelaide, celebrates the crossover of music and technology. This year’s line-up includes an immersive virtual reality work involving William Barton and the Australian String Quartet, and a solo improvised concert by Paul Grabowsky.

This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

Known for his visionary, striking productions, Damiano Michieletto returns to Opera Australia with a new take on Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, which starts with Hoffmann as an old man in a bar, then travels through different episodes in his life.

The new Director of Artistic Programming at the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and former ABC Classic and ABC Jazz Content Manager, reflects on how his musicologist father informed his curiosity, and admits to playing the cello, badly.

Guy Noble owns up to a bad case of PCSD–Post-COVID Stress Disorder – manifested in unusual bouts of negativity, foreboding and absent-mindedness.

What is it about the performing arts that we so willingly give away our work for nothing?

Ahead of a solo with the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, Brian Nixon explains why you will often see the timpanist with an ear close to the drum.

Genevieve Lacey and Marshall McGuire's lockdown recording project is about to become a Musica Viva tour, using lighting to create a poetic, enhanced concert.

Don Kay discusses his new piece premiering at the Festival of Voices later this month.

How the Australian Chamber Orchestra went with the flow for its latest film project.

Australians deserve to hear a great deal more music by First Nations peoples, women, gender non-conforming people, composers of colour, and our male contemporaries argues Felicity Wilcox.

A new opera about the Princes in the Tower concludes they were murdered – but not by Richard III.