2020 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards announced
Andrew Ford and Kylie Bracknell are among the winners in this year’s expanded awards.
Andrew Ford and Kylie Bracknell are among the winners in this year’s expanded awards.
Adelaide will be illuminated in a new winter festival featuring an innovative program of music, art, light and technology.
The $90,000 fund, launched by ABC Classic and ABC Jazz, will support the creation of new music from emerging and diverse Australian voices.
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall and Damian Barbeler’s hiberNATION Festival of the Lo-fi are among the initiatives honoured.
Artistic Director Alan Cumming unveils the full program for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, describing it as his personal "cabaret love letter" to Australia.
What can a grand old European city tell us about life in Australia today? Roland Peelman chats with Julian Day about how new music and First Nations musicians play an essential role in this year’s Vienna-themed Canberra International Music Festival.
Canberra's new National Opera makes an impressive debut with a handsome production and some mouthwatering vocal artistry.
Sir Simon Rattle on Janáček’s Vixen, Paul Dean on his new “Symphony”, Alan Cumming on Adelaide and ageing, and Amanda Harris on representation and cultural appropriation are among the highlights in our next issue.
An awe-inspiring event from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, with Joseph Nolan pulling out all the stops.
A heart-warming, inclusive event with great potential as a model for integrating music and social change.
Canberra's new National Opera makes an impressive debut with a handsome production and some mouthwatering vocal artistry.
A roundly entertaining and sumptuous-looking comic foray into the false calls of nostalgia.
Hail to the sing for the Australian Vocal Ensemble’s glittering launch.
A thrilling, tantalising theatrical adventure through an Elsinore very different to Shakespeare’s.
Adelaide will be illuminated in a new winter festival featuring an innovative program of music, art, light and technology.
Andrew Ford and Kylie Bracknell are among the winners in this year’s expanded awards.
The $90,000 fund, launched by ABC Classic and ABC Jazz, will support the creation of new music from emerging and diverse Australian voices.
An awe-inspiring event from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, with Joseph Nolan pulling out all the stops.
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall and Damian Barbeler’s hiberNATION Festival of the Lo-fi are among the initiatives honoured.
A heart-warming, inclusive event with great potential as a model for integrating music and social change.
Canberra's new National Opera makes an impressive debut with a handsome production and some mouthwatering vocal artistry.
Thielemann and co give the meaning of a night to remember.
A year after a terrifying bout of the coronavirus, with blood clots in her lungs, the Australian soprano has finally recovered and is about to play Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito for Canberra's new National Opera.
Another obscure opera triumphs courtesy of the Boston Early Music Festival.
The new Pinchgut Opera scholarship program honours the legacy of Taryn Fiebig, who was thrilled when the idea was proposed to her shortly before she died.
A brand new production of Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, starring Australian soprano Jessica Pratt, comes to Sydney alongside the return of Aida and Attila.
Andrew Ford and Kylie Bracknell are among the winners in this year’s expanded awards.
Artistic Director Alan Cumming unveils the full program for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, describing it as his personal "cabaret love letter" to Australia.
A roundly entertaining and sumptuous-looking comic foray into the false calls of nostalgia.
A thrilling, tantalising theatrical adventure through an Elsinore very different to Shakespeare’s.
Sublime moments were there for the taking at this year's Four Winds Festival, as strangers became friends.
Senior citizens cut a rug in this musical about growing old disgracefully.
It was a double honour for soloist Nathan Brook who took home both the Telstra Rising Star Award and the People's Choice Award.
The artist and designer, whose work is well known to Sydney Festival and Bangarra Dance Theatre audiences, took up the newly created role this month.
Sublime moments were there for the taking at this year's Four Winds Festival, as strangers became friends.
The Australian Ballet returns triumphant with a fresh take on 20th-century canon.
The Ballet Mistress and Principal Répétiteur of Queensland Ballet reflects on how dance introduced her to a variety of musical styles, and how her daughter’s deafness affected the role of music in their home.
What’s happening on stage this month? We’ve put together a list of the most exciting events taking place in April 2021.
The new festival, which replaces the long-running Melbourne Festival, will feature work by Patricia Piccinini, Deborah Cheetham, Matthias Schack-Arnott and more.
Musicians Simone Slattery and Gabriella Smart have created aural responses to the Clarice Beckett exhibition at the AGSA, leading to live performances and a recorded soundscape in the Gallery.
Having picked up a paintbrush as a creative outlet during the COVID lockdown, Tim Draxl starts the year with his first major solo art exhibition.
The new-look Limelight magazine includes major features written by Mahima Macchione, Jane Albert, Carole M. Cusack and Alex Ross.
Susan Philipsz’s mesmerising installation, showing at the NGV Triennial, uses a violinist on screen and a series of speakers to “visualise the sound”.
Dreambox Collective's Chloe Chung and Carlo Antonioli takes us behind the scenes of their new multimedia project that combines music, poetry and visual art.
Meet a sweet tenor with the gift of tongues.
Captivating Lieder from a forgotten master of song.
Gil Shaham shines in Berg's heavenly Violin Concerto.
Nelsons negotiates both the foothills and the peaks in triumphant Bruckner.
Virtual orchestra revives underplayed works but not same as real thing.
Not your usual swansong: Andrew Schultz celebrates the maali, Perth's black swans.
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Canberra International Music Festival takes place 30 April–9 May, 2021.