The violinist and Musica Viva FutureMaker chats to Limelight ahead of his tour with Konstantin Shamray and the ANAM Orchestra.
Pitched to "women of a certain age", Debra Oswald's solo show will deliver a fine time for many, but could do with a bit of a trim.
As one of the busiest maestros on the planet, Russian-British conductor Vasily Petrenko lost umpteen engagements because of COVID. He talks to Clive Paget about how he has used the unexpected hiatus – from recording video interviews to growing tomatoes and a beard.
Andrew Ford and Kylie Bracknell are among the winners in this year’s expanded awards.
The Content Manager will say goodbye to the ABC after eight years as he moves to his new role as Director of Artistic Planning with the Australian Chamber Orchestra at the end of the month.
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.
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.
Pitched to "women of a certain age", Debra Oswald's solo show will deliver a fine time for many, but could do with a bit of a trim.
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.
An excitingly diverse group of Australian composers will each write a six-minute work for an ANAM musician. Discover who the 67 are...
The Content Manager will say goodbye to the ABC after eight years as he moves to his new role as Director of Artistic Planning with the Australian Chamber Orchestra at the end of the month.
The violinist and Musica Viva FutureMaker chats to Limelight ahead of his tour with Konstantin Shamray and the ANAM Orchestra.
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.
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.
Pitched to "women of a certain age", Debra Oswald's solo show will deliver a fine time for many, but could do with a bit of a trim.
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.
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.
