From the power of choirs to the power of young people, the Adelaide Festival’s new Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie shares her thoughts on next year’s program, and the future.

This month's features explore the magical appeal of A Christmas Carol, the challenges facing our cultural sector and why soprano Siobhan Stagg is in such demand. We also reveal the 2022 Limelight Artists of the Year.

The five-play season, which includes a world premiere by sisters Mandy and Hayley McElhinney, is the first under new Artistic Director Kate Champion.

From Adams and Crumb to Boulez and Björk, there's new music galore with 67 musicians acing 180 events in ANAM's 2023 season. When pressed, AD Paavali Jumppanen adds his top 5 picks.

The Sydney venue’s 2023 season launches its Australian-first immersive sound system with a lineup featuring Peaches, Deborah Cheetham, Paul Grabowsky, Emma Donovan and Krautrock legend Michael Rother.

Flautist Eliza Shephard walks away with $30,000 in prizes, two professional engagements, and becomes the ABC Classical Artist in Residence.

Announcing a new postgraduate program for 2023, Words, Text, Voices, Music, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music will halt its successful Composing Women program for the foreseeable future. 

The Australian Ballet and Telstra have announced that Erin O’Rourke is the winner of the 2022 Telstra Emerging Choreographer Award for her work ‘yellow mellow’.

The Sydney-based artist, who won the 2001 Archibald Prize with a portrait of John Bell as King Lear, and sketched many STC productions, has died from cancer, aged 66.

The Orchestra celebrates its 75th anniversary with guest artists both new and returning, a number of works by Australian composers, and a new early-evening series.

Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela has announced he will stay on for five more years, as the SDC prepares for its return to the Sydney Opera House and a busy touring schedule.

The study reveals that audience attendance has yet to fully recover from the pandemic and points to the rising cost of living as the new primary barrier.