Inside this issue: 2018 Artists of the Year, The Magic Flute, Meryl Tankard's Two Feet, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra at 30, Leonardo Da Vinci 500.

Two new Australian operas, an Estonian choir, the eight-hour theatrical tour-de-force Gatz and a host of "Made in WA" productions feature.

The line-up includes the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Moscow's Sretensky Monastery Choir, and Meryl Tankard's Two Feet performed by Natalia Osipova.

This celebrated production of Mozart's evergreen singspiel is exceeding sales figures for past operas like Hamlet and Saul.

The Magic Flute from Berlin’s Komische Oper in which singers interact with stunning animations is coming to the 2019 Perth and Adelaide Festivals.

Kosky's dazzling production of The Nose celebrates the grotesque and the absurd.

Shostakovich was 20 when he began writing The Nose. Barrie Kosky was around the same age when he fell in love with it.

Conductors, a singer, a director and a composer all feature in a bumper year for Australian musical talent.

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A special summer holiday bumper edition, the January/February 2018 issue of Limelight Magazine features Barrie Kosky on his daring production of The Nose. Plus, we reveal our 2017 Artists of the Year and chat with the Orava Quartet.

From nude dancers to opera superstars, here are the top ten live reviews that had our readers hooked in 2017.

Romancing Danielle de Niese or tapping out Kosky’s Shostakovich, meet the tenor who ‘nose’ no bounds.