Employment within the court of Louis XIV allowed Jean-Baptiste Lully to lavish his talents on creating spectacular works for the stage, as Jan Smaczny explains.

Christopher Wiley traces the career of Ethel Smyth, who was the first woman to have an opera performed at the Metropolitan Opera, wrote the suffragette’s anthem, and developed a parallel career as an author.

For opera lovers the world over, Giacomo Puccini epitomises Italian opera. Phillip Sametz examines the life and career of one of opera’s most successful musical dramatists.

Australia’s greatest cultural loss from WWI finally gets to come home with the launch of his complete recording edition. Christopher Latham reports on the late-flowering fruits of a labour of love.

Premiering in Townsville, Connor D’Netto’s new string quartet is another step closer to completing a life-long musical bucket list.

How serious new music is fusing classical and contemporary. How Mozart, Ravel and Liszt really died. Is West Side Story more relevant than ever?

The dazzlingly versatile musician has died at the age of 89.

Callum Watson will spend a week composing for a leading ensemble for new music.

Constantly on the run, “Le Beau Visage” got into more amorous scrapes than Casanova.

With a commission from Musica Viva under her belt and now bound for the Curtis Institute of Music, the young composer discusses her musical tenets, the influence of mentor Carl Vine, and The Wiggles.

The pianist recorded his atmospheric first album in his kitchen at night – in spite of the neighbours – but now thanks to Internet success he’s touring the world.

Encouraged and championed by legendary musicians and composers, the versatile Arthur Bliss became one of the most revered figures of his generation.