On Air & Online: Radio and streaming in May 2026
This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
Hamed Sadeghi brings musical traditions into a timely conversation. "Maybe we can focus on what we share instead of what divides us."
As 2026 Composer in Residence at the Canberra International Music Festival, Fiona Hill presents a body of work in which collaboration is more worldview than method.
Joe Chindamo’s new concerto for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra puts the pedal to the metal with drifter (and clarinettist) Dean Newcomb.
Playing the tragic heroine of Verdi's La traviata is one of opera’s most difficult balancing acts but Stacey Alleaume relishes the challenge.
Cameron Lam’s Australian Art Music playlist focuses on Classical, Jazz, and Sound Art made outside of our capital cities this month.
“I’m very passionate about music being alive,” says Artistic Director Kate Suthers of her first Coriole Music Festival. “There’s a responsibility to invite people to discover."
The British mezzo on art song gold and the danger of first impressions.
Timothée Chalamet's controversial comments and a new book by Caitlin Vincent, Opera Wars, lead Peter Tregear to ponder what (and who) is opera for?
Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.
Louis XIV's Master of the King's Music was a charming backstabber whose ruthlessness matched the monarch's.
Does the framing of AI as a threat place limits on our thinking about a technology that may prove meaningful and constructive in creative practice?
From Mahler’s audacious First Symphony to site-specific bells and Sting's working-class roots, April’s issue explores music, place and identity.