Radical staging and a brilliant new version of the score elevate Frank Wildhorn’s popular musical, produced professionally in a fully staged version for the first time in Australia.

Presented by Nexus Arts, this multimedia performance blended musical instruments and techniques spanning two millennia.

Simon Stone's Rust Belt resetting doesn't always come off, but Nadine Sierra is a must-see as Lucia.

The ACO turns the spotlight on its charismatic and thought-provoking leader, Richard Tognetti.

The Australian Festival of Chamber Music continued over the weekend with the Governor's Gala, which featured the belated premiere of a 25th-anniversary commission for the Goldner String Quartet.

Strauss's songs were given an intoxicating performance by soprano Nicole Car, while Wagner's Ring without Words had some marvellous moments under conductor Nicholas Braithwaite.

The 2022 Australian Festival of Chamber Music opened with the James Cook University Opening Night concert celebrating the wonders of nature.

The One is a vibrant, fun, inoffensive play, but it left Jessie Tu wondering if having characters catalogue the racial taunts they've endured frames them too much as a victim.

Petrenko and WASO deliver a blistering, electric performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No 11, while Emily Sun brings some show-stopping technique to Mozart.

Star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason gives an impressive performance in his Australian debut, while a work by Anne Boyd proves the perfect concert-opener.

Simone Young leads the SSO and three-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn in a triumphant program of Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and a world premiere by Cathy Milliken.

Both intriguing and alienating, this experimental performance interrogates the self in the digital age.