Melbourne’s annual awards ceremony for the performing arts takes stock of 2019’s best and brightest.

Australian composer and artist Julian Day discusses his showcase for the Adelaide Biennial, an immersive work informed by the Barossa Valley’s Lutheran church organs.

Sir Mark Elder’s first-thoughts Puccini may well give you the willis.

Ten promising young musicians have been chosen to participate in the SSO’s acclaimed training program.

The iconic Italian soprano, with a voice of surpassing freshness and beauty, has died at 84.

This adaptation of Peter Goldsworthy’s novella is big-hearted but not fully realised in its look at love and death.

Mozart’s Requiem is a cornerstone of the classical canon, a powerful mass for the dead written by the composer on his deathbed. Ahead of its premiere at the Adelaide Festival, Justine Nguyen learns how Romeo Castellucci has staged it as a celebration of life instead.

Elena Kats-Chernin and Justin Fleming’s Whiteley has received an International Opera Awards nomination.

S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack’s sweeping drama has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature.

For close to 3000 years, people have turned to the Book of Psalms for consolation. For nearly as long, composers have transformed these texts into some of the most profound music imaginable. Justine Nguyen explores how a unique choral project sees four choirs perform all 150 Psalms set to music by 150 different composers over the course of 12 concerts.

Lemieux’s marine explorations find her perfectly afloat.

A delightful look at the life and career of one of Britain’s most beloved actors.