A King's Birthday weekend of canonical works, new Australian voices, virtuoso recitals and jazz blown hot and cool.

Playing the tragic heroine of Verdi's La traviata is one of opera’s most difficult balancing acts but Stacey Alleaume relishes the challenge.

Best known for an action movie career that took him to Hollywood stardom, Chan will fuse martial arts directly into the fabric of Puccini's Turandot.

Pamela Rabe commands Belvoir’s uneven eco-mystery, where big ideas accumulate without dramatic payoff.

Shakthidharan has been honoured for his ambitious, multigenerational plays including Counting and Cracking and The Jungle and the Sea.

Composers Alice Chance and Alex Turley are among the recipients of financial support to create new operatic work.

“I’m very passionate about music being alive,” says Artistic Director Kate Suthers of her first Coriole Music Festival. “There’s a responsibility to invite people to discover."

Long recognised as one of the country’s most versatile pit orchestras, Orchestra Victoria is now a storyteller in its own right.

Nathan Waks hopes that "tokenised fractional ownership” will keep his 1740 Carcassi cello on the stage rather than in a collector's vault.

From Barrie Kosky finding the new in Wagner to Sheridan Harbridge on women who refuse to conform, May's issue of Limelight is a celebration of talent, resilience and audacity.

A vivid picture of a working-class wedding does double duty as an unflinching portrait of post-Brexit Britain.

Throughout his long leadership of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Clark demonstrated a rare ability to align artistic ambition with institutional strategy.