What do our orchestras and choirs have on offer in the year ahead?

Children’s music might be educational, but it can be so much more. We look at composers who wrote works specifically for children to play.

Big themes and big emotions dominate – from Mozart’s Requiem to Mahler’s symphonies to Tippett’s humanist oratorio.

Celebrating 15 years, the all-star orchestra will deliver a three-part program featuring Shostakovich, Stravinsky and a new work by Jonathan Mills.

“Lower your guard,” says incoming Artistic Director Matthew Lutton, heralding the return of Peter Sellars and contemporary music.

From the conductor’s podium to opera’s power plays, November’s Limelight captures the people shaping Australia’s musical, operatic and theatrical future.