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Opera
Live Review

Review: Bon Appétit! (Deborah Humble)

Julia Child is alive and cooking in this bite-sized opera monologue baked to perfect imperfection.

February 20, 2026
News, Opera
news

Inaugural OperaChaser Critics Awards honour Melbourne’s operatic standouts

Critics salute Victoria's deep and adventurous opera culture.

February 5, 2026
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Beethoven’s Ninth (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

Joy unconfined as Simone Young brings SSO’s season to a spectacular close.

November 28, 2025
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Verdi Requiem (Queensland Symphony Orchestra)

The QSO and Brisbane Chamber Choir Collective delivered an incredible, terrifying journey from the abyss to salvation in Verdi’s Requiem.

October 5, 2025
Classical Music
features

Richard Meale’s unfinished Concerto takes flight

Music by an Australian great is about to be heard for the first time in London. Pianist Rosemary Tuck traces its journey to the concert stage.

September 24, 2025
Opera
Live Review

Review: Samson et Dalila (Melbourne Opera)

A new production of Saint-Saëns’s Old Testament tale respects tradition while refreshing it with sophisticated minimalist design.

June 2, 2025
Classical Music, Opera, Theatre
features

Read the June 2025 issue of Limelight

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May 19, 2025
Classical Music, Opera
features

Five Questions for Deborah Humble

Deborah Humble tells us about her role debut as Delilah and why mezzos get stuck in "witches, bitches and britches" roles.

May 19, 2025
Classical Music, News, Opera, Theatre
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The June 2025 issue of Limelight is now available

From high notes to deep brass, June’s Limelight hits all the right chords in music, theatre and more!

May 19, 2025
Classical Music, News, Opera, Theatre
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Introducing the June 2025 issue of Limelight

From high notes to deep brass, June’s Limelight hits all the right chords in music, theatre and more!

May 6, 2025
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CD and Other Review

Review: Mahler, Barton: Symphony No. 2, Of the Earth (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Sydney Children’s Choir, Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Simone Young)

Mahler's Resurrection celebrates new concert hall, new conductor and new era.

April 24, 2025
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Live Review

Review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Melbourne Opera)

The little company that could presents opera’s longest work in a vast space that proves surprisingly perfect.

February 17, 2025
News, Opera
news

Massive Meistersinger for Melbourne

Melbourne's UNESCO-listed Exhibition Building to host an ambitious, all-Australian staging of Wagner's "miracle of complex engineering".

December 20, 2024

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