This month's features explore electric instruments in classical music, and women and sexual violence in opera. We also interview Paavali Jumppanen, Artistic Director of ANAM, and explore Halévy's grand opera La Juive.

Acacia Quartet will perform at venues and conservatories through NSW, establishing a touring route for other artists to follow.

Minister for the Arts Leeanne Enoch has announced two new initiatives, creating new funding channels for diverse and First Nations artists.

When Aaron Wyatt steps on stage tonight to conduct Deborah Cheetham's Long Time Living Here for the MSO, he will be the first Indigenous person to conduct one of Australia's state orchestras.

George Crumb’s death at the age of 92 is an immeasurable loss for the arts. A composer with an extraordinary talent for finding new sonorities, colours, and sounds in his haunting works, his titanic impact on music in the twentieth century is still felt even now. 

A new competition seeks to inspire fun, lively pieces for amateur musicians to perform.

In his biggest role to date, Joshua Robson will don the mask of the Phantom of the Opera. He tells Limelight that the stars aligned for him this time and that he is "beyond words" at landing the role.

The second part of the MRC’s season, running from April to June, includes performances by Amadou and Mariam, Julia Jacklin, Mindy Meng Wang and Flinders Quartet.

Composer/pianist Colin Spiers takes out the prize offered by the Sydney International Piano Competition

The appeal was begun to fund performance and commission fees, and to support artists whose performances at MRC were cancelled.

The five nominees include three members of the corps de ballet, a soloist and a coryphée, with the winners to be announced at the Sydney opening of Anna Karenina in April.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Symphonie Fantastique pick up four awards each at a “family reunion” after two devastating years.