One for the ages as Simone Young and the SSO track Richard Strauss’s musical journey.

Spanning Generations X to Z, this Bridge proves too flimsy to carry us all the way across.

Shenyang Conservatory of Music showcase of largely patriotic but musically powerful programming.

Killing off a beloved fictional character is not as easy as it seems in this delightful, nostalgia-fuelled dramedy by Melanie Tait.

The Sydney Fringe Festival gets off to a cracking start with a sleek, elegant work celebrating bodies, light and space.

Double delight as two international sensations – conductor Dmitry Matvienko and violinist Aiko Suwanai – make their Sydney debuts.

An audience well and truly transfigured by a night at the Opera House.

Filled with pinch-me moments, this is opera of and for the people – with one of the finest Abigailles you’re likely to hear.

Wagner and Debussy made shipshape and a major new contribution to Australia’s choral and symphonic repertoire from Paul Stanhope.

A dazzling production brings the fantasy of Mozart’s Magic Flute into the present day.

A queer clown show with bite takes aim at Sydney’s millennial rich, their bathroom renos and their brats.

This staging of a story said to have predicted so much about the world today lacks topical spark and specificity.