This month's features explore Melbourne Opera's Bendigo Ring Cycle, the challenge for orchestras to attract younger audiences, the new physical theatre production Holding Achilles, and an interview with choral superstar Eric Whitacre.

This month's features explore Melbourne Opera's Bendigo Ring Cycle, the challenge for orchestras to attract younger audiences, the new physical theatre production Holding Achilles, and an interview with choral superstar Eric Whitacre.

The success of this interdisciplinary concert series warrants its return in an expanded format.

This wide-ranging program perfectly reflects Canberra Festival's overarching theme, even if one did have to work to see the links.

Why has classical music been so slow to incorporate electric instruments?

Over the Easter weekend in April, Bermagui will host some of Australia’s finest musicians from Pinchgut Opera to the Acacia Quartet.

The new CEO of Bundanon Trust, and former Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), explains how art and music have always been part of her DNA.

A Steve Reich survey shows old-school Minimalism still packs a punch.

Modern and minimal string quartets shimmer in brand new guises.

A fine performance of a rarely heard 20th-century masterpiece.

Alongside the golden oldies, not so old dogs deliver plenty of new tricks.

New, but not shocking: ACO Collective champions Muhly’s new concerto.