The Ugly Duckling and Swan Lake collide in this modern circus blending of fairytale and reality.

A stunning start to the Sydney International Piano Competition, 17 days of pianistic heaven on a stick.

Made with care and skill, this star-packed tribute to Archie Roach offers a joyous celebration of his incredible life and ongoing influence.

Lindy Hume’s new production of this early Mozart opera offers much to delight both eye and ear.

A Festival of Voices highlight reaffirms Rossini’s vivid musical imagination and humour in a work that is neither little or solemn.

A looming prom night puts a ticking clock under Jacob Parker's Dumb Kids, an energetic, thoughtful study of youthful anxiety and diversity.

Chinese-Australian cellist Li-Wei Qin is as suave and fluent a cellist as one could wish for in music such as Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1.

Fortune favours the bold – and the Freedman Jazz Fellowship winner’s new evocative interdisciplinary work puts himself among them.

An appealing back-to-basics approach for this Romeo and Juliet has Shakespeare’s words do the heavy lifting.

Fourteen seasons in one night and a very crowded house at the Great Synagogue.

This ingenious, double-plotted musical, with a stunning jazz score and hilarious book, is brought to vivid life at the Hayes.

This new Il trovatore may not sit well with the purist, but this is one of the most interesting productions of the year.