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

Jazz and American Songbook fans are shortchanged but if you’re here for the quirky Hollywood icon, the evening delivers.

For the musicians of The Metropolitan Orchestra, playing aboard a BRAVO Cruise of Performing Arts is a floating festival where no two days are alike.

The tenacious orchestra from Sydney’s Inner West offers an impressive eight world premieres in 2024.

Since the first BRAVO Cruise, Guy Noble has played conductor and host. Preparing to set sail again in 2024, he remembers past highlights.

Heather Shannon's new work, Strange Roses, brings synthesizer and orchestra into harmony one moment and into stark opposition the next.

The orchestra extends its hand to its local community with a welcoming program, packed with a gripping world premiere.

Amadeus, Peter Shaffer’s best-known play, rings loudly and clearly in this new production that kicks off the Sydney Opera House’s 50th year. Loud and clear, but hollow.

With six world premieres from Australian composers, the Metropolitan Orchestra offers a new Chamber Music Festival alongside its mainstage program.

Rahel Romahn plays Mozart in Amadeus, opposite Michael Sheen as his musical adversary, Salieri. He plans to pick Sheen’s brains, since the Welsh star portrayed Mozart in London in 1998 and then on Broadway.

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The Women's Club will again play host to emerging female musicians from the Sydney Conservatorium, showcasing Australian artists.