The Orchestra celebrates its 75th anniversary with guest artists both new and returning, a number of works by Australian composers, and a new early-evening series.

This extraordinary program includes selections from the Changi Songbook, providing the right balance of light relief and ethereal beauty in contrast to the heavier themes explored.

As polling continues, composers Elena Kats-Chernin and Ella Macens reflect on being nominated for next month's Sydney Symphony Orchestra People’s Choice Concerts.

The lineup salts Sydney with 748 performances, featuring homegrown and international talent, with a cascade of world premieres and the Australian premiere of the opera Sun & Sea, staged on an artificial beach.

Under Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen, WASO delivers a riveting Sibelius, some terrific Wagner and an evocative world premiere by Elena Kats-Chernin.

Cameron Lam explores choirs new and old, and the music written for them, in this month's Australian Art Music playlist.

Highlights include Stephen Hough and the ASO performing all of Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra, world premieres by Elena Kats-Chernin, Anne Cawrse and Grayson Rotumah, and the arrival of new Concertmaster Kate Suthers.

Elena Kats-Chernin's first opera casts a welcome light on Ovid's mythic representation of same-sex attraction, but this revival would have been better served by a less-is-more approach.

Addressing the ongoing gender imbalance in opera, Lyric Opera breathes new life into Elena Kats-Chernin's first opera Iphis, as part of a new partnership with Theatre Works.

This program of free concerts at venues around Port Augusta has immense potential for the development of audiences and the encouragement of young musicians.

Cameron Lam explores old favourites and new tracks in this month's Australian Art Music playlist.

The musical giant known for his wit and passion has passed away aged 69.