Orchestras need to get with the times if they are to attract a younger, broader demographic. We look at the challenges they face and some of the initiatives that are bearing fruit.
Eric Whitacre talks about The Sacred Veil, written with poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, who lost his wife to ovarian cancer, and how the internationally acclaimed work has helped others grieve.
First Nations composers Sonya Holowell and Elizabeth Sheppard discuss Songs from the Heart, a new a cappella program that responds to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Experimental music festival Audible Edge is raising the stakes by exploring new possibilities from within its weird, warm-hearted community.
The new Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre, Daniel Riley, is returning the company to first principles, with big, but local, thinking.
Our critics have scrutinised 50 outstanding discs released in the past 12 months for the annual Limelight Recording of the Year.
The latest arts appointments and departures.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
A round-up of our recent news reports.
The British musical theatre star explains how he learned to sing and why the songs of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg are in his DNA.
The former oboist and Artistic Director of Garsington Opera discusses conducting Beethoven’s nine symphonies in two weeks for Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Male soprano Samuel Mariño discusses increasing gender fluidity in opera and the roles he’d love to play, including Violetta in La Traviata.
Venues like intervals as they make money from the bar sales, but should performers be forced into having one if it interrupts the natural flow of the show?
