What do our orchestras and choirs have on offer in the year ahead?

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

A six-star finale to Chen Shi-Zheng’s five-star Ring Cycle sticks to the script and proves all the world loves a good bedtime story.

The third opera in Wagner’s tetralogy throws up plenty of challenges, but Chen Shi-Zheng tackles them boldly and triumphs.

The wintry wonderland of Queensland ballet's The Nutcracker is a perfect antidote to Brisbane’s already sweltering summer.

Chen Shi-Zheng’s meticulous staging of the second opera in Wagner's tetralogy proves his Ring Cycle is one for the ages.

Chen Shi-Zheng’s finely crafted Ring Cycle heralds a return to Neue Bayreuth, but with a human touch.

A menu of effervescent Mozart-influenced music perfectly matched with the bubbly eccentricity of QSO Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici.

Ysolt Clark plays the instrument Wagner invented, one with "a weird, unearthly sound".

Eliza and Harry Sdraulig are leading their own musical careers. But occasionally, the siblings’ paths cross.

By turns muscular and tender, Umberto Clerici and the QSO deliver a triumphant Mahler 6.

Umberto Clerici's second season centres on Romanticism and explores the 'Outer World' as its philosophical theme.