The sitar virtuoso studied with her father, the late, great Ravi Shankar, from age seven. She talks about the humanitarian inspiration for her album, which she plays live in Australia this month.

With a Sydney Theatre Award for her star turn in Calamity Jane at the Hayes, now touring, the popular performer recalls being raised on classical music, before discovering Nirvana, musicals and “newgrass”.

This month, The Australian Ballet celebrates Graeme Murphy’s 50-year association with the company. Deborah Jones looks back on a blazing career, that includes three decades running Sydney Dance Company, and wonders if it all began under his mother’s piano at age four.

Cervantes’ idealistic knight-errant is someone every man should be for a few hours, says Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, but to do the role justice on the operatic stage requires age and wisdom.

The Perth-based organist's album Midnight at St Etienne du Mont is Limelight's Recording of the Month for March.

The great Australian baritone is joined by two rising star guitarists in a personal evening of opera and song.

Slava Grigoryan's Cello Suites Volume II on ABC Classics tops The Limelight Chart – our monthly list of Australia’s best-selling classical music albums.

Growing up as a kid in New York, the conductor and author was bowled over by the two Leonard Bernsteins. Ahead of his Adelaide concerts, he explains how a fascination became a friendship.

Like Strauss, WASO’s Munich-based maestro knows a thing or two about hiking in the Bavarian mountains.

The Adelaide Biennial and Biennale of Sydney put the contemporary in contemporary art.

Now based in Paris and soon to make her Met debut, high-flying soprano and new mother Nicole Car talks to Jo Litson as she returns home for a concert tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and an important role debut with Opera Australia.

Steve Dow takes a look at initiatives to create work inclusive of artists with a disability. But are fear, a lack of understanding and insufficient funding holding us back?