With her rich voice and expansive taste in song, Casandra Wilson was one of the preeminent jazz vocalists of the past half century.
Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.
La Scala's subscription screen platform drops its paywall, making the Italian opera company's digital archive free worldwide.
Swan Lake, Mayerling and Cinderella anchor a season of landmark revivals and contemporary choreographic masterpieces.
Revised Australian Tax Office guidance addresses areas of concern for venues, festivals and promoters but complexities remain for bandleaders.
New rules on generative AI in music send a welcome message to artists, writes composer Alexis Weaver.
American guitarist and composer Bryce Dessner is about to join the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for two programs of his work. He chats about his compositions.
The Dutch cellist discusses the ambitious recital program he and Australian pianist Piers Lane are performing at Melbourne Recital Centre.
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An amiable tribute to analogue Hollywood, built around something this show’s target audience knows and loves.
A program of Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Stravinsky showcases these very special sibling talents.
A big warm hug of a show, full of deft theatrical touches and calculated mischief.
An uneasy meditation on the stories we tell ourselves and others.
Gamba duo Byrne and Vaughan traverse the centuries with delicate ease.
Splendid singing by Helena Dix, Rosario La Spina and Christopher Hillier compensates for a potboiler plot.
In May, Harry Connick Jr. premiered a symphony at Carnegie Hall with Orchestra Victoria. He tells us why it was his most significant performance.
In The Enormous Radio, Roslyn Oades and Bob Scott turn a circle of vintage radios into a listening station for the animal world.
Dominic Flynn's new work draws sonic material from a 1830s transcription that "fails to preserve" a traditional Palawa song.
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A new Melbourne Conservatorium of Music production brings Handel’s opera to life with period practice, fluid casting and youthful energy.
Twenty-five years after founding her innovative contemporary dance company, Lucy Guerin is ready to embrace the next chapter in her career.
As he prepares to tour Australia with a multi-sensory, all-Australian program, the harpist-composer chats about what's in store.
Ahead of his Sibelius cycle with the ASO, Mark Wigglesworth talks about the composer’s radical reinvention of the symphony.
Piers Lane, Emily Sun, Li-Wei Qin and the Chroma and Orava quartets to gather in Hobert for TCMF's seventh edition.
Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.
Victoria's Kingussie Trio make a triumphant return to the 2026 competition, securing the First Prize.
Active in Western Australia’s classical music community for more than four decades, Bonds was a skilled performer, educator, arranger and composer.
A program of Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Stravinsky showcases these very special sibling talents.
An arts lawyer and major contributor to the Australian arts sector, Shane Simpson will oversee the competition's 50th anniversary.
Soprano Louise Keast takes home the $43,000 prize, which will support her ambitions for an international singing career.
La Scala's subscription screen platform drops its paywall, making the Italian opera company's digital archive free worldwide.
A Kosky Kafka and a Castellucci Bartók among the keystone events of the 2027 Adelaide Festival.
Splendid singing by Helena Dix, Rosario La Spina and Christopher Hillier compensates for a potboiler plot.
State Opera South Australia finds a compelling darkness and light in Humperdinck’s enchanted forest.
Victorian Opera takes us inside its new adaptation of Helen Garner’s award-winning novel The Spare Room.
An amiable tribute to analogue Hollywood, built around something this show’s target audience knows and loves.
In a career spanning Australian television and British and American theatre, Ted Craig combined a director’s versatility with an actor’s understanding of performance.
In The Enormous Radio, Roslyn Oades and Bob Scott turn a circle of vintage radios into a listening station for the animal world.
A big warm hug of a show, full of deft theatrical touches and calculated mischief.
An uneasy meditation on the stories we tell ourselves and others.
A Kosky Kafka and a Castellucci Bartók among the keystone events of the 2027 Adelaide Festival.
Swan Lake, Mayerling and Cinderella anchor a season of landmark revivals and contemporary choreographic masterpieces.
Set designer Keerthi Subramanyam, costume designer Jennifer Irwin and lighting designer Paul Jackson are among those honoured.
From symphonic reinvention to new theatrical worlds, Limelight's September issue spotlights artists reshaping tradition while forging their own futures.
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Twenty-five years after founding her innovative contemporary dance company, Lucy Guerin is ready to embrace the next chapter in her career.
The Farm's Co-Artistic Director Gavin Webber introduces its new production, which addresses mortality and premieres at Brisbane Festival.
A monodrama steeped in musical history brings us brutally into the present day.
Harpist Emily Granger's seventh album is aptly named.
Stasevska and the BBC give terrific performances of under-heard Ukrainian music.
Hough digs deep to find a treasure chest of miniature gems.
Second time around proves even better care of period instruments.
Sensitive singing and pianism bring Mahler’s early songs to vivid life.
Explore the guide and listen to our 25 in 25 playlist of Australia’s favourite art music.
Our specialist writers analyse this year’s offerings in theatres and concert halls.
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