Despite choristers blushing and the Anglican Church declaring it “unsuitable,” Belshazzar’s Feast went on to conquer the world.

A heavenly accounting of Elgar's oratorio.

The British composer has a choral work at Melbourne Festival, while the Australian Ballet is dancing to his music in Alice.

Moody, paranoid and in later years creatively paralysed by depression, there was a dark side to Elgar that history tends to overlook.

Weymark’s new and old English masterworks bridge the centuries.

Brett Weymark enjoys exploring the ripe choral masterpiece that the Countess of Albermarle pronounced "disgusting".

Painterly orchestral story-telling in Debussy’s only completed opera.

Thrilling choral theatrics abound when the church goes to the opera.

The baritone on the operas he could live without and what went wrong when he tried to clutch an Aida's arm.

WA’s mighty Fisch scales the NSW peaks and then some.

Powerful and emotional experience, with fabulous singing, despite amplification problems.

Vaughan Williams at his earthiest, and masterpieces by Bach, Elgar and Mendelssohn are on the bill for 2017. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in