Featuring 21 world premieres, the 2025 Brisbane Festival promises "a world-class event with a fiercely local heart".

Composer Erik Satie, jazz singer Lisa Simone, clarinettist Michael Collins, a deep dive into a brand-new Carmen, and a Broadway hit about a 16-year-old going on 70. Limelight's July issue is essential reading.

Australia crowns Beethoven king of the keys (again) as the 'Emperor' Concerto takes out this year's piano-centric poll.

Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin, composer Iain Grandage and Canberra Symphony Concertmaster Kirsten Williams among this year's recipients.

Already an Emmy and Olivier Award winner, Sarah Snook adds a Tony to her cabinet at Broadway's night-of-nights.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra deficit stoked by Jayson Gillham “case management" costs and resulting "restructure and separation" payments.

Michael Cassel is "dipping a toe into the music scene" with a brand new single from the Celine Dion-centred musical Titanique.

Appointed Assistant Conductor with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Martin relocates to the US with wife Susan Eldridge, who works in trauma-informed orchestral research.

A live orchestral performance of the Blue Danube Waltz transmitted to Voyager 1 corrects what some Strauss fans regard as a long-standing omission.

Multi-national Live Nation to add to its growing portfolio of venues in Australia and New Zealand with a new 3000-capacity hall in Perth.

The Sydney contemporary scene's volunteer-run Weekly Gig Guide is shutting down after a "difficult period" and no funding solutions ahead.

Foundry616 shuts its doors at the end of June – the second Sydney venue to announce closure this week.