Melbourne-born Artistic Director, Maurizio Scardovi, discusses the program highlights and shares his hopes for the Italian festival celebrating Bolognese composer Ottorino Respighi.

The exciting season includes a Sondheim musical, two new Indigenous plays among seven Australian stories, and an adaptation of a best-selling Australian novel.

Alberts unveils a national music education initiative in support of young Australians and their wellbeing, with special guests at the launch including Peter Garrett, Anita Collins and Zoë Barry.

In this month's features we explore three new productions of Swan Lake, pay tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams on his 150th, investigate a new opera about Olive Pink and publish an extract from Andrew Mellor's new book The Northern Silence about Nordic music and culture.

APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre unite with 16 other music organisations in a cry for the development of a national music development agency to provide strength, security and sustainability for Australia's contemporary music scene.

Bell Shakespeare celebrates the 400th anniversary of The Bard’s First Folio with contemporary productions of Macbeth and Twelfth Night, with music by Sarah Blasko, as well as an intimate production of Romeo and Juliet.

With a program boasting Beethoven, Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov and five world premieres from Australian composers, Chief Conductor Jessica Cottis and the CSO paint a colourful portrait in their 2023 season Chroma.

Sydney-based trumpeter and composer, Tom Avgenicos, has won this year's Jazz Fellowship, which he will use to develop his collaborative practice and work on an environmental project.

The $5,000 First Prize went to JPMS Ensemble Volante from Queensland, which also won the $2,000 Audience Prize, while several other awards were presented to the finalists.

Playing an authoritarian orchestral conductor in Todd Field's new film Tár, Blanchett studied the mannerisms of the legendary Leonard Bernstein, and received rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival.

The award was presented to the legendary Maestro by His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley, Governor-General of Australia, at the Sydney Opera House following the Australian World Orchestra concert.

Highlights include Stephen Hough and the ASO performing all of Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra, world premieres by Elena Kats-Chernin, Anne Cawrse and Grayson Rotumah, and the arrival of new Concertmaster Kate Suthers.