Nineteen world premieres and more than 1000 performances in a Brisbane Festival bill spotlighting local talents with national profiles.

This month our features explore investing in music education, reevaluating Australian culture through a regional lens, two stage adaptations of Jekyll and Hyde and whether postmodernism has put paid to beauty.

The Artistic Director of the Brisbane Festival explains how her own children inspired her to invite Brisbane’s young people to suggest the music for this year’s Riverfire event.

International acts return for the first time in two years, alongside 20 world premieres, with more than half of the 500-odd performances offered free of charge.

On the streets of suburban Brisbane this month, audiences will see ballet performances and classes, be enrapt in chamber music and listen to an array of sopranos as part of Brisbane Festival. 

Dead Puppet Society's new production Ishmael is a contemporary reimagining of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, set 1000 years in the future in outer space.

Artistic Director Louise Bezzina hopes people will be able to come together "in a really bright, shimmery way, with a sense of celebration" at this year's Brisbane Festival.

While live performance is returning, travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic mean virtually no international artists will tour here. Will we seize the chance to create a greater space for Indigenous, female and ethnically diverse voices to speak to us about Australia today?

Metro Arts Creative Director and CEO Jo Thomas introduces us to the exciting, purpose-built venue, which will host several Brisbane Festival events.

Louise Bezzina has recast her first program for Brisbane Festival to focus on local voices and outdoor events.

Queensland Theatre and Brisbane Festival are to stage a theatrical adaptation in September 2020, directed by Sam Strong.

The internationally renowned recorder virtuoso has won the $60,000 Individual Award at the 2018 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards.