Conjuring Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel Invisible Cities on stage seemed an impossible but irresistible challenge. Leo Warner and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui tell Olivia Stewart how they and their creative team have used every possible tool to (loosely) bring the book to life.
The exquisite young artist has returned from injury a wiser, more mature dancer.
The tenor tells us about recording Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared, Limelight's Recording of the Month in September.
The collective power of fangirls is huge, director Paige Rattray tells us ahead of the new musical coming to Queensland Theatre and Belvoir.
Entertaining, heart-warming, friendly and fun, this year's Festival was a triumph.
A new exhibition at the Museum of Sydney is unearthing the history of music making in the early colonial home.
Soon to unveil her Norma for Melbourne Opera, the Australian soprano talks about the challenges of accompanied recitative, the tension between words and music, and putting her own stamp on bel canto's Mt Everest.
With the opening weekend of the Brisbane Festival in full swing, we check in with the outgoing Artistic Director.
Director Greg Eldridge discusses how he’s coming to grips with Aribert Reimann’s Ghost Sonata, an operatic adaptation of a Strindberg play that’s all about the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive.
In 2018, aged 10, he won the Junior First Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition. Now he is playing with the likes of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Sydney Symphony – after a banana.
The South African music theatre ensemble's founder Mark Dornford-May tells us about a new staging, which combines Bach with traditional South African music and marimba orchestra.
The Brazilian conductor shares with us the secrets of Diaghilev's success ahead of his Ballet Russes-inspired concert with students from the Australian National Academy of Music.
Simon Phillips talks about meeting Tom Stoppard, how The Real Thing is beautiful as well as brilliant, and why Australian actors need to understand that for Stoppard the brain is sexy.
