Umberto Clerici conducted his first concert in 2018. Four years later, he was Queensland Symphony Orchestra's Chief Conductor. How did he do it?

What makes a child prodigy ? We talk with some former Wunderkinds and artistic directors about how to nurture musically gifted children.

After a 30-year absence from the musical theatre stage, Sarah Brightman is returning as Norma Desmond in a brand-new Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard.

Ross Edwards tells Maddy Briggs about his new hour-long work, inspired by Monteverdi, which grapples with our looming ecological crisis.

Opera Queensland is on a mission to take opera as far afield as possible and change the way it’s perceived.

Brooklyn-based composer William Brittelle talks to Maddy Briggs about his latest, genre-blind mini-album in which he stares down the apocalypse.

Norwegian virtuoso Tine Thing Helseth always knew she wanted to be a trumpet soloist and find her own distinctive voice – as Melbourne audiences will discover when she plays Weinberg’s Trumpet Concerto.

The conductor/pianist reflects on his 10 years as Artistic Director of the Canberra International Music Festival.

Wicked, The Odd Couple, a new cabaret show and a BRAVO cruise . . . There’s no stopping Todd McKenney. He shares why he likes to keep busy.

A Frenchwoman’s resurrected Faust is Recording of the Month alongside an opera-fest that includes Kaufmann’s Parsifal. Smetana, Stravinsky, Debussy and Rózsa also feature.

Tyran Parke tells Jo Litson about his bold moves at this year’s Australian Musical Theatre Festival.

Writing from a small Indonesian island, Guy Noble reflects on the Muslim call to prayer and the ringing bells at Christian churches.