Cameron Lam goes big and bold in this month's Australian Art Music playlist, exploring major works for wind symphony, orchestra, big band, and the stage.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra launches its season with a powerful if sonically patchy showcase featuring Siobhan Stagg and a new work by Mary Finsterer.

A cleverly-programmed delve into Louis Andreissen soared to gorgeous minimalistic highs, despite distracting technical issues on the night.

Mary Finsterer's heart-stoppingly beautiful new opera is endlessly absorbing, sonically and visually.

Mary Finsterer takes us on a journey through time and space in her new opera Antarctica.

Fascinated by complex musical ideas, Jack Symonds never wants to make work that resembles anything else – whether he’s programming it or writing it himself.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Composer in Residence for 2023, Mary Finsterer, explains how her new work takes inspiration from the vast canon of musical settings of the Latin chant O magnum mysterium.

Features include Cate Blanchett on TÁR, Cilea's opera Adriana Lecouvreur, the arts on offer in 2023, philanthropy in Australian arts and the relationship between Noongar artists and Perth Festival.

Cameron Lam looks back at a year of releases in this Australian Art Music playlist, a 2022 retrospective.

Cameron Lam explores the latest online releases and re-releases in this month's Australian Art Music playlist.

Chief Conductor Jaime Martín discusses the season which includes 17 new works, including three by Composer in Residence Mary Finsterer, while soprano Siobhan Stagg is Artist in Residence.

The world premiere of this new Australian opera – a work that prompts dread as well as wonder about humanity's relationship with the natural world – was an enormous triumph, artistically and logistically.