Queensland Symphony Orchestra announces 2025 season
Beethoven Five, Mahler Nine, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Stephen Hough are some of QSO’s 2025 players as the orchestra explores spirituality in all of its colours.
Beethoven Five, Mahler Nine, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Stephen Hough are some of QSO’s 2025 players as the orchestra explores spirituality in all of its colours.
A much-anticipated production of Jonathan Mills' opera falls short of its abundant promise.
A tuba player and experienced arts manager, Michael Sterzinger leaves his Executive Director role at Camerata to return to QSO.
The number of Australians with their sights set on an international conducting career hasn’t changed, but their success rate is down. Why?
As four Australian orchestras prepare to perform his music, we trace Bruckner's career, along with his obsessions and oddities.
The 20-year-old rising star earned $35,000 in prizes and a concerto engagement with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
Restoring the mythic nature of Virgil’s epic to Purcell's Baroque masterpiece, Yaron Lifschitz sets a new benchmark for opera production in Australia.
Rich and strange music for an imaginary film leads to Brahms from a different perspective.
This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
Cameron Lam tries his hand at an Australian-only answer to this year’s ABC’s Classic 100 theme: Feel Good, in this month’s Australian Art Music playlist.
"Inaction equates to complicity": Orchestras move even further away from equal representation, as shown by the latest analysis from Donne, Women in Music.
Having perfected the formula for its annual festival, Opera Queensland ups the ante with its most sophisticated program to date.
A laudable theatrical-musical experiment in presenting the classics but this was the very definition of a mixed bag.