Cloudstreet is the centrepiece in a 2019 season steeped in horror, Malthouse AD Matthew Lutton explains.

Highlights include an epic in Sydney Town Hall, a new play about the Packer Dynasty, and Colin Friels in Life of Galileo.

Now in its sixth year, the period instrument band looks to its origins in a season that offers fresh takes on old favourites.

New Zealand baritone Benson Wilson has won the 2018 Bel Canto Award, while the Elizabeth Connell Prize went to French soprano Claire de Monteil.

The September 2018 issue of Limelight Magazine is now on sale featuring Jørn Utzon's mighty building, Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe as Composer of the Month, and much more.

Writer PJ Hogan has won the Musical Theatre Award and the David Williamson Prize, which will see funding go to the creation of new Australian work.

Nicholas Carter’s final year as Principal Conductor features a world premiere for Pinchas Zukerman’s 70th birthday, and Jayson Gillham playing five Beethoven piano concertos.

Robert Veel and Bruce Watson, the directors of Limelight, announce a new structure with Cara Anderson appointed to the role of General Manager.

Hector McDonald, long-time Principal Horn of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Concentus Musicus Wien, has received the society’s highest honour.

Exciting world premieres and a co-production with Sydney Theatre Company make this a bumper season.

The legendary American actor is to star in a 2019 Melbourne season of 33 Variations, about a musicologist studying Beethoven’s creation of the Diabelli Variations.

A stunning Elektra, Salome and much more, the last great singer of her generation passes at 101.