In his first year as sole Artistic Director, Erin Helyard offers Rameau and Monteverdi with an Aussie premiere for good measure. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Vivica plus Vivaldi equals an evening of va-va-voom.

Brilliantly dirty doings in baroque opera's Game of Thrones.

Pasticcio it may be but Vivaldi's Bajazet is more than the sum of its parts.

Three-and-a-half hour opera seria becomes a right old carry on (don't lose your panties).

Nothing makes a bad opera like a bad libretto. Luckily Gluck knew a thing or two...

Tyrants, lovers and fools aplenty to be found two rarely performed operas premiering in Australia.

Sweeping the cobwebs from one of Salieri's smuttier masterpieces.

History rapidly forgot him and 'Amadeus' sought to paint him black but who was this much-maligned composer?

The ANU School of Music has announced that leading conductor, harpsichordist and fortepianist Dr Erin Helyard is to join the staff as a Lecturer in Music from July 2014.

Bach and Handel on original instruments in a final celebration of the Town Hall series.

David Hansen takes the philandering title role in a 400-year-old opera receiving its Aussie premiere next month.