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Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
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Sydney Philharmonia Choirs announces its 2020 season

Celebrating its centenary next year, the Philharmonia has commissioned 12 Australian composers whose works will be performed throughout 2020.

September 6, 2019
Classical Music, Opera
Live Review

Review: Whiteley (Opera Australia)

Ample talent on display, but the story needs more work to properly take off.

July 16, 2019
Classical Music
news

Finalists announced for the 2019 Art Music Awards

Newcomers join established voices in this year’s awards, with more women than men in the running for the prestigious Orchestral Work of the Year category for the first time in the Awards’ history.

July 16, 2019
Classical Music, Opera
features

Whiteley the Opera: A Difficult Pleasure

The enfant terrible of the Australian art scene is the subject of a new opera by Elena Kats-Chernin and Justin Fleming. They talk to Justine Nguyen about the challenges of translating this colourful, larger-than-life figure to the stage.

June 25, 2019
Classical Music, Opera, Visual Art
news

The June 2019 issue of Limelight is now on sale

Learn how Lang Lang became a more rounded artist, brush up on Opera Australia's Brett Whiteley opera, and discover the rich musical history of Notre Dame.

June 3, 2019
Chamber, Classical Music
features

The music never stops at Four Winds

From Dame Emma Kirkby to Elena Kats-Chernin, not to mention a jam with local folk band Malumba, Harriet Cunningham reports on an Easter long weekend at the Four Winds Festival.

April 23, 2019
Classical Music
CD and Other Review

Review: Women of Note: A Century of Australian Composers

Perfect compilation proves Aussie sisters have been doing it for themselves for a century.

March 8, 2019
Classical Music
news

Elena Kats-Chernin appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia

The celebrated composer is among the recipients of 2019's Australia Day honours.

January 29, 2019
Classical Music, Instrumental, Opera, Theatre
news

Who will be Limelight’s 2018 Artists of the Year? You decide

Vote here for the artists you'd like to see honoured in our Australian and International Artists of the Year Awards.

September 27, 2018
Dance
news

Queensland Ballet announces its 2019 season

Liam Scarlett premieres a full-length Dangerous Liaisons, Bespoke creates contemporary dance for the digital ages, while several favourites return.

September 25, 2018
Opera
news

Opera Australia announces its 2019 season

Three new digital productions, William Kentridge’s Wozzeck, a new opera about Brett Whiteley, and singers including Jonas Kaufmann and Lise Lindstrom.

August 16, 2018
Classical Music
features

Tamara-Anna Cislowska: Our busiest pianist on her latest collaboration

The Australian pianist gave her first public performance at the age of three, with the photos to prove it. Here she talks about giving the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s Third Piano Concerto.

August 9, 2018
Classical Music
features

Women Composers: A Score to Settle

Women composers are wildly under-represented in Australian music across all genres but, as Rosalind Appleby discovers, a groundswell of change is gathering force.

July 4, 2018

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