The 2022 Adelaide Festival program from Joint Artistic Directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy features 71 events including nine world premieres and six Australian premieres.

Six concerts and an intriguing line-up of soloists see the orchestra venturing well beyond the Baroque.

Victorian Opera has announced a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas story for its 2022 season, to be written by composer Graeme Koehne and librettist Anna Goldsworthy.

In this month's features we talk to Barrie Kosky about The Golden Cockerel, run an extract by Leigh Sales from the book Well Hello, explore the role of music reviewers today, and examine the pleasures and perils of writing music for the screen.

Thirty-six years after founding Adelaide Chamber Singers, Carl Crossin is to step down as Artistic Director and Conductor at the end of the year and will be replaced by Christie Anderson – but retirement isn't part of his plan.

In 2022, Queensland’s chamber orchestra adds a fourth mainstage concert to its season, and welcomes Lior as its guest for an additional performance at HOTA, Home of the Arts.

The great Dutch conductor and prolific recording artist has passed at 92.

In 2022, Australia’s oldest professional ballet company, West Australian Ballet, will celebrate its 70th anniversary and tenth season under the artistic directorship of Aurélien Scannella.

Janine Collins has been appointed as the inaugural Executive Director of Music in the Regions, a new initiative to connect classical musicians with audiences in regional NSW.

The rescheduled lineup will run over a huge weekend in December, signalling the return of live music to the city’s long-empty stages.

A brand new musical and the return of plays thwarted by COVID, not to mention a new home, make for a season of love and reunion for Bell Shakespeare.

With international borders still closed, the festival is celebrating the diversity of the local scene in its tenth year.