With a highly gifted and vocally balanced cast, this is ensemble performance at its best.

Sixty projects to share in more than $1 million in funding; State Opera South Australia and Opera Hong Kong to partner up for Hansel & Gretel.

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

Timothée Chalamet's controversial comments and a new book by Caitlin Vincent, Opera Wars, lead Peter Tregear to ponder what (and who) is opera for?

After living in the UK for two decades, Helena Dix is back. And now there's "no more sitting like a puppy dog at an opera casting director’s door . . ."

Director Neil Armfield tells Steve Dow why his production of Cinderella for State Opera South Australia will have a 1970s twist.

Our top 10 opera reviews chart an operatic landscape where bold new works jostle with reimagined classics for audience attention.

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Limelight published hundreds of live music, theatre, dance and opera reviews this year. But what were the critiques that really clicked with our readers?

Log in to read the flipbook version of Limelight's December 2025 magazine.

Limelight closes out the year in grand style, with stories of creativity and resilience lighting up our December issue.