Taking into account style and accuracy, a student at the University of Edinburgh rated the violin emoji from Microsoft to Twitter.

As more than 60 masterpieces from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg travel to Sydney, Justine Nguyen explores the lives and tastes of two pioneering Russian collectors of modern art.

Renée Fleming denies she’s calling time on her opera career, but she charmed in Carousel and has just released a Broadway album. As for taking on another musical theatre role, it’s a case of “stay tuned”.

As the Festival AD finds himself falling in love again, ticket sales are on track to break previous records.

One of the foremost interpreters of Bach, the Hungarian-born, English pianist tells us about his favourite composer, what counts as interpretation, and studying with the fierce Ferenc Rados.

Silkroad Ensemble and Mark Morris Dance Group perform Azerbaijani dance-opera at the Melbourne Festival.

How the Glaswegian pianist and serial husband became classical music’s Henry VIII.

The musical theatre star got her start as the narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, but it wasn’t long before she traded in WAAPA for a chance at Sunset Boulevard.

Enlightened thinking in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, where an innovative new independent primary school, focussing on music and creativity, is slated to open in 2020.

It’s iconic now, but it nearly didn’t happen, and its construction took its toll on all involved. As the Sydney Opera House turns 45 in the centenary of its architect’s birth, CEO Louise Herron talks about the “restrained” celebrations planned during the current major upgrade, and we share an extract from a new book about the people behind the white sails.

In her new oboe concerto for Celia Craig and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Judith Weir looks at how 'the school oboe' shaped her career.

A 1955 Prince Igor joins a 2011 War Requiem in this month’s eclectic batch.