Performance spaces are being redeveloped and built all over the country. Steve Dow charts the changes happening to mainstage venues, and explains what this flurry of architecture will mean for classical music and the performing arts.

Amelia Drummond will have the opportunity to create a new work for The Australian Ballet this October.

The Song Company delves deep into the Eton Choirbook in vibrant performances with an edge of danger.

A musical Russian arc from a modern English maestro.

A stunning production, visually and musically, that tips you into a nightmarish world, though the emotion is sometimes overwhelmed.

A new Deloitte report has found that the iconic venue has experienced astonishing growth in the last five years.

With his production of Wozzeck opening at Opera Australia alongside two Sydney exhibitions, renowned artist William Kentridge talks about working between the studio and the stage, and how to coax ants into artwork.

Arts patron Peter Weiss' gift is the most significant cash donation the venue has ever received.

English tenor Ian Bostridge, the Brodsky Quartet, Irish-Canadian mezzo Wallis Giunta and Austrian clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer are among the artists heading to the Sydney Opera House next year.

Daniel Barenboim brings his Brahms cycle with the Staatskapelle Berlin to a stunning conclusion.

"I was here 60 years ago in 1958 and nobody spoke about this," the maestro told the audience following the conclusion of his Brahms cycle.

In a masterful first performance, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin prove the audience is in good hands for this Brahms odyssey.