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Limelight’s top twenty shows for 2016

With the new year around the corner, Limelight’s critics pick their favourite arts events from a busy 2016.

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Australian dancer Joshua Price wins the 2016 Genée

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky withdraws from engagements

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Angels and demons to appear at Adelaide Fringe 2017

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Steve Jobs the Opera to be premiered in Santa Fe

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Strictly Ballroom receives lukewarm reviews in the UK

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Limelight critic is Hobart’s Young Citizen of the Year 2017

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Lachlan Skipworth and Brett Dean take out Paul Lowin Prizes

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December 6, 2016
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December 5, 2016
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Gisela May has died

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December 5, 2016
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St. Petersburg first to hear Stravinsky’s ‘lost’ Funeral Song

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