The China National Symphony Orchestra Chorus brings its revered Yellow River Cantata to Australian. In return, says conductor Guy Noble, they get to sing Waltzing Matilda.

Cameron Lam collects the latest releases across Classical, Jazz, and Sound Art in this month’s Australian Art Music playlist.

A time-travelling DeLorean is a "pretty cool" thing to have on stage, says director John Rando, but it takes a lot more than that to make a hit musical.

We talk to director Suzanne Chaundy about creating "an absolute opera event" in an iconic UNESCO Heritage-listed venue.

The BBC said she wasn't a composer. How wrong can you get?

Life as a Musica Viva Australia FutureMaker starts with a blank piece of paper, says Madeleine Jevons. "I’m hoping we can come up with something that will live on."

The music of the reclusive composer and keyboard virtuoso Charles-Valentin Alkan "has transformed my musical life for the better", writes Joseph Nolan.

Alana Valentine's new drama explores "uncomfortable, complex truths" in the nuclear energy debate.

We probably have the Muzak corporation to thank for associating bossa with 'background music', says AGQ's Andrew Blanch. It's anything but that.

The free, Opera Australia-produced, BMW-sponsored event is ready to make a few opera converts among the crowd, says soprano Olivia Cranwell.

Operantics' "fantastically prescient" Brecht-Weill double bill takes its audiences on a whistle-stop tour of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Perhaps it’s time, argues Margaret Seares, to start rebalancing the priorities between corporate drivers and artistic imperatives.