Alice Topp’s first full-length ballet, Butterfly Effect, inspired by Madama Butterfly, is about to premiere at West Australian Ballet.

American mezzo Joyce DiDonato is known for her musical versatility and her advocacy. She talks her love for Berlioz and commitment to opera.

Ahead of his latest tour, Taiwanese-Australian violinist Ray Chen talks about the multidimensional journey that led him to reimagine music education.

Director Kate Woods chats about her latest film Kangaroo – a delightful family movie set in Central Australia.

All musical material is “received”, believes Huw Belling. He explains why as he prepares to direct a program for The Song Company, which includes a world premiere of his own music.

Small companies are “vital” to Australia’s arts ecology, given “so much opera is being dictated by finances” higher up the chain, says soprano Celeste Lazarenko.

American percussionist, conductor and author Steven Schick unravels the musical philosophy that informs his residency at the Australian National Academy of Music.

The Brisbane-based playwright discusses her play, Back to Bilo, about a family of Sri Lankan asylum seekers taken into immigration detention.

Brian Maloney is Principal Percussion at the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. He explains what makes the vibraphone special.

A round-up of our recent news reports.

A household name since appearing on Australia Idol in 2003, the popular performer recently joined the Board of the Australian Children’s Music Foundation. He tells us why that’s so important to him.

On a recent European holiday, Guy Noble lost the top of a finger. He raises a hand to the good-humoured staff at Britain’s NHS, who repaired his damaged digit.