Directors Shannon Burns and Patrick Nolan lift the curtains on their new productions of the fairy-tale musical Into the Woods for two of our opera companies.

We trace the history of the soaring male voice from the 18th-century castrati to a reclaiming of some mezzo-soprano roles today.

Composer and saxophonist Katia Beaugeais discusses her new Piano Concerto No. 1, which includes improvised bird calls and whistling.

Ahead of their upcoming tour, Dutch piano duo Lucas & Arthur Jussen tell Jansson J. Antmann how brotherly love sustains them on the road.

The acclaimed Australian tenor on the world premiere of Jonathan Mills’ song cycle, Songs for the Stranger, with the Australian World Orchestra.

Ahead of his 90th birthday, two landmark works by Minimalist composer Philip Glass are being performed in a special one-off concert in Melbourne.

Thomas Meadowcroft chats to Maddy Briggs about his new concerto for two Foley artists, a collection of odd objects and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

As endorphins flooded his brain while lugging firewood to the woodpile at his house, Guy Noble found his envy for trillionaire Elon Musk slowly turning to pity.

Dubbed the Eric Clapton of the lute, French virtuoso Thomas Dunford is spreading the love, from the Baroque to his own music.

After starring in A Beautiful Noise on Broadway, Will Swenson agreed to reprise his acclaimed performance as Neil Diamond in Australia. He tells us why.

Fresh from performing in the musical Waitress, the star of stage and screen believes he would be a different person had there not been so much music in his life.

The latest arts appointments and departures.