In her new book Opera Wars, Caitlin Vincent takes a lively, illuminating, insightful and, at times, irreverent look at the world of opera.

American composer Missy Mazzoli’s opera is an abstract, elusive look at a 19th-century Swiss woman’s short but extraordinary life.

The UKARIA Cultural Centre celebrates its first decade with Pekka Kuusisto’s intriguing program for strings and an all-star cast.

Omega Ensemble embraces the extraordinary in an exciting concert of firsts.

Notable female talent deliver a one-off, semi-staged performance of the contemporary opera based on Lars von Trier’s disturbing film.

Breaking the Waves director Anne-Louise Sarks talks to Limelight about the opera version of one of the most harrowing films of the 1990s.

ASO's She Speaks program delivers a magnificent celebration of music by women composers that asks: why we don't hear this music more often?

Clarity, power and sheer poetry as Joyce Yang takes on the perennial favourite Grieg concerto.

Five contemporary operas, a bigger Melbourne presence, more women conductors and directors – Jo Davies' inaugural season suggests a change of direction for OA.

This month, Tim Mead’s Beauteous Softness does what it says on the can, there’s new music from First Nations composers, and classics from Benjamin Grosvenor and the Brodskys.

Mazzoli contemplates the universe in appealing orchestral guise.

Jennifer Koh on racism and investing in the music of tomorrow.