Barrie Kosky’s animated production of Mozart’s Singspiel has been stunning audiences globally. Suzanne Andrade and Paul Barritt from innovative British theatre company 1927 tell us how a “hyperactive little Australian” convinced them to stage their first opera.

Brett Dean's Hamlet on DVD, Stuart Skelton's debut recital album, and Pinchgut Opera are among the finalists.

We reveal our 2018 Artists of the Year. Other features include The Magic Flute, Meryl Tankard's Two Feet and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra at 30.

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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