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Classical Music, News, Vocal & Choral
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Limelight’s 2025 Artists of the Year revealed

In a year defined by ambition, authority and musical impact, three towering names claim the honours.

February 23, 2026
Classical Music
features

The Limelight Artists of the Year for 2025

We asked both our critics and readers to vote for the classical musicians who made the biggest impression in 2025. So, who did they choose?

February 23, 2026
Classical Music, News
news

The big reads: Limelight’s most-read feature stories of 2025

A fight for artistic freedom, the breaking down of barriers for musicians with disability and the future of our national opera company in our top stories for 2025.

January 5, 2026
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: The Tallis Scholars (Sydney Opera House Presents)

Completing their 11th Australian tour, the “rock stars of Renaissance vocal music” deliver a sublime survey of chant over a thousand years.

October 13, 2025
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: The Tallis Scholars (Melbourne Recital Centre)

A polished evening of song celebrates divine inspiration and the human voice in all its glory.

October 6, 2025
Vocal & Choral
features

In at the Deep End: Aussie Bass-Baritone joins Tallis Scholars on tour

School's in for Lachlan McDonald, who will step onto the stage with the Tallis Scholars without so much as a rehearsal.

October 1, 2025
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
features

5 Questions for Peter Phillips

The founding Director of The Tallis Scholars, Britain’s revered early music vocal ensemble, discusses the group’s return to Australia.

September 22, 2025
Classical Music, News
news

Melbourne Recital Centre announces 2025 line-up

Hot dates include concerts by Matthias Goerner, the Tallis Scholars, Stephen Hough, Daniel Lozakovich and the German vocal sextet Sjaella.

October 11, 2024
Supported by St Paul's College, University of Sydney & Trinity College, University of Melbourne

Top University Choirs find common ground

When the flagship musical ensembles of St Paul's Sydney and Trinity Melbourne meet "it'll be bigger than Ben-Hur".

June 14, 2024
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Music for the Sistine Chapel (The Tallis Scholars)

The extraordinary Tallis Scholars return to Australia, bringing a glorious program of Renaissance music, composed for the Sistine Chapel.

October 27, 2022
Classical Music
features

Music for the Sistine Chapel gets a hearing down under

Ahead of their 10th Australian tour, the Tallis Scholars founder illuminates the murky world of Renaissance art and politics.

October 4, 2022
Classical Music, Dance, Festivals, Opera, Theatre
features

On Stage: the events you need to see in October 2022

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

September 19, 2022
Vocal & Choral
features

Eric Whitacre on his highly personal choral work helping others grieve

Eric Whitacre talks about The Sacred Veil, written with poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, who lost his wife to ovarian cancer, and how the internationally acclaimed work has helped others grieve.

August 22, 2022

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