The entirely WA program takes the river as its theme and includes a range of new work, with a strong Noongar component.

The ACO’s hybrid live and digital offerings include world premieres by Thomas Adès and Holly Harrison, along with collaborations with Belvoir and a brand new cinematic work, River.

Australian-based and international soloists feature in a series that includes the return of Circa, with each concert also going digital.

From a park bench in Sydney’s Green Park to Gunaikurnai country in the Victorian Alps, from Singapore to outer space, Griffin’s new season crosses worlds.

Joseph Nolan’s 2021 season includes the first fully professional performance of Bach’s Easter Oratorio in Perth and a brand new work by a WA composer.

The QSO's 2021 season features three new commissions by Australian composers and a focus on the orchestra's own musicians.

Wesley Enoch’s fifth and final Festival will be all Australian Made.

Read our features on religion, music and immortality, a Brazilian opera festival where everything is free, adapting literature for the theatre, as well as an extract from Alex Ross’s new book Wagnerism.

The company will present the inaugural Maali Festival, which was to have taken place in 2020, as well as Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, an adaptation of Animal Farm by Van Badham, and an audience-choice Shakespeare.

Productions include the return of Fangirls and A Room of One's own, three new Australian plays, and The Cherry Orchard.

New AD Alan Cumming presents a taster of his full line-up (to be announced next March), with his own new cabaret show closing the festival.

Jason Arrow has landed the title role of Alexander Hamilton, with local performers from diverse backgrounds playing the vast majority of roles.