My Music with Brett Sheehy
As he puts the finishing touches on the 2025 Adelaide Festival program, Brett Sheehy shares his eclectic taste in music and reveals how he made his own harpsichord.
October 21, 2024
Comings and Goings: November 2024
The latest arts appointments and departures.
October 21, 2024
New Sydney Festival Artistic Director announced
London-based Canadian Kris Nelson to take the reins of Sydney Festival for its 50th year and beyond.
September 24, 2024
Sydney Festival announces 2025 centrepiece
A new opera charts the rise of Vegas superstars Siegfried and Roy. Kanen Breen and Christopher Tonkin to star.
September 3, 2024
On Stage: the events you need to see in March 2024
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
February 19, 2024
Newsworthy: March 2024
A round-up of our recent news reports.
February 19, 2024
Sydney Festival Director Olivia Ansell to helm Toronto’s Luminato
Olivia Ansell's "natural talent for understanding the pulse of a city" takes her to Canada in 2025.
February 7, 2024
Review: Come Sweet Death (Ensemble Apex & Sydney Festival)
Dead wasps, electric insects and the music of bones as Ensemble Apex lets Bach take his last bow.
January 30, 2024
Review: Praeludium y Fuga (Benjamin Skepper & Sydney Festival)
Benjamin Skepper rounded off his Bach mini-festival with an electrified performance that had some heading for the doors, others enraptured.
January 28, 2024
Review: ACO Up Close: Inspired by Bach (Australian Chamber Orchestra & Sydney Festival)
Bach’s life and times beautifully played out by an ACO foursome, complete with bullet points.
January 27, 2024
Review: Korkmaz Can Sağlam In Concert (Sydney Festival)
Korkmaz Can Sağlam's Sydney Festival debut reveals a pianist of great technical skill and plenty of heart.
January 25, 2024
Review: Temperament (Bach Akademie Australia & Sydney Festival)
Madeleine Easton’s Akademie band gives this Bach mini-festival an intimate and fitting lift-off.
January 24, 2024
Review: GöteborgsOperans Danskompani (Sydney Festival)
The famed Swedish contemporary dance company presents works by Damien Jalet and Sharon Eyal in a soulless double bill.
January 24, 2024