A glittering performance from one of Australia's top sopranos, Emma Matthews.

The best of all possible Bernstein tributes.

Drab reality recrafted into a dream-world rich, strange, and tragic.

This intelligent, provocative play uses the Snowden affair as the springboard for a not-so-speculative deep dive into 21st-century surveillance.

Xavier de Maistre and the Brandenburgs deliver a wide-ranging program full of surprises and hidden treasures.

A complex love letter to Sydney, Alana Valentine’s new play tracks the lives of three generations of working class women.

This adaptation of Peter Carey’s novel is an uneven, sometimes laborious tragi-comic exploration of an adman’s existential crisis.

A new take on an old classic reveals uncommonly good gossip as currency.

Highlighting emerging voices, this was a fine hour of Australian choral music.

Stuart Skelton heads a distinguished field as Rattle uncovers Mahler the Modernist.

Benjamin Bagby brings Beowulf to life in an epic retelling.

An elegant evening of shimmering Chinese sounds with Pipa virtuoso Zhang Hong-yan front and centre.