"It is what I burn for, it is what I breathe." A new documentary, Knowing the Score, brings the audience up to date with conductor Simone Young.

Cameron Lam continues his instrument-focused series in this month’s Aussie Art Music playlist, with a spotlight on the piano.

Todd Field’s TÁR shines an uncomfortable light on some of the social and political dynamics of the world in which it is set, argues Peter Tregear.

Time and tides are explored and celebrated in SIMA's adventurous Jazz: NOW summer festival.

Solitude and sacrifice. Ahead of his Melbourne and Sydney appearances, tenor Michael Fabiano reveals what it takes to bring a character to life.

Eri Hotta's new book about Shinichi Suzuki and his approach to early childhood musical education is about to hit bookstores. Read an extract here.

As The Hours arrives in cinemas, its co-star Renée Fleming speaks to Limelight about the making of the opera and why it is "crucial" to stage new work.

Europa! Europa returns to Australia for its second year with a festival of 29 films from 24 countries.

The whole world is talking about TÁR. It’s time for Australian orchestras to join the conversation on gender, the canon and conducting.

Conductor Natalie Murray Beale talks to Limelight about teaching Cate Blanchett to wield the baton in TÁR and the film's potential to provoke.

The four composers of the MSO's Cybec Young Composers program discuss their new orchestral commissions, and what the program means to them.

Ensemble Offspring's Avant Gardens series takes musicians and their audiences out of the recital hall and into suburban backyards.