April 3, 2020
Dance
The Australian Ballet: At Home with Ballet TV
Unable to perform live, TAB has launched a new digital season featuring 14 of its productions, starting with The Sleeping Beauty.
April 3, 2020
Theatre
Bell Shakespeare announces film festival
The Bell Shakespeare Shorts Festival is open to Australian primary and secondary students.
April 3, 2020
Chamber, Chamber, Classical Music
Review: Elyane Laussade & Songmakers Australia (Melbourne Digital Concert Hall)
Elyane Laussade, Nicholas Dinopoulos and Andrea Katz bring beautiful, intimate recitals to Melbourne Digital Concert Hall.
April 2, 2020
Classical Music
Yo-Yo Ma: The Art of Living
Across nine days in January, Angus McPherson visited the 2020 Youth Music Culture Guangdong event in Guangzhou, China, spent time with Yo-Yo Ma, and discovered how the legendary cellist’s philosophy extends far beyond music.
April 2, 2020
Classical Music
Musicians around the world pay tribute to health workers
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is just one of many classical musicians who have recorded videos in support of those at the COVID-19 front line.
April 2, 2020
Classical Music
The Ten Greatest Self-Isolating Composers
From eccentrics to recluses, these musicians positively thrived on social distancing. (Image courtesy of @mozart____ on Twitter)
April 1, 2020
The April 2020 issue of Limelight is on sale
Discover how Yo-Yo Ma is bridging cultures with a unique event, learn about the restorative powers of music, and read up on the history of ballet music.
April 1, 2020
Dance, Theatre
New cultural sector support from the City of Sydney and City of Melbourne
The City of Sydney endorses a $3.5M package, the City of Melbourne offers $2M in grants, and Tasmania delivers $1.5M in funding and operational measures worth $2M.
April 3, 2020
Review: Elyane Laussade & Songmakers Australia (Melbourne Digital Concert Hall)
Elyane Laussade, Nicholas Dinopoulos and Andrea Katz bring beautiful, intimate recitals to Melbourne Digital Concert Hall.
March 15, 2020
Review: The Bridges of Madison County (Matthew Management, Gooding Productions, Hayes Theatre Co)
An appealing rather than a dazzling musical, though Kate Maree Hoolihan and Ian Stenlake shine as the lovers in a fluent production.
March 15, 2020
Review: Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians (Soundstream New Music, Recitals Australia, Adelaide Fringe)
A fine performance of a rarely heard 20th-century masterpiece.
March 15, 2020
Review: Volt (The Australian Ballet)
An uneven program of contemporary ballets from established and emerging choreographers.
March 14, 2020
Review: Breaking the Waves (Opera Ventures & Scottish Opera at Adelaide Festival)
Missy Mazzoli's opera, based on Lars von Trier's film, builds to a devastating finale.
April 3, 2020
Review: Elyane Laussade & Songmakers Australia (Melbourne Digital Concert Hall)
Elyane Laussade, Nicholas Dinopoulos and Andrea Katz bring beautiful, intimate recitals to Melbourne Digital Concert Hall.
April 2, 2020
Musicians around the world pay tribute to health workers
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is just one of many classical musicians who have recorded videos in support of those at the COVID-19 front line.
April 2, 2020
Yo-Yo Ma: The Art of Living
Across nine days in January, Angus McPherson visited the 2020 Youth Music Culture Guangdong event in Guangzhou, China, spent time with Yo-Yo Ma, and discovered how the legendary cellist’s philosophy extends far beyond music.
April 2, 2020
The Ten Greatest Self-Isolating Composers
From eccentrics to recluses, these musicians positively thrived on social distancing. (Image courtesy of @mozart____ on Twitter)
April 1, 2020
Review: Mahler: Symphony No 8 (Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin)
Nézet-Séguin luxuriates in Mahler’s most grandiose conception.
March 31, 2020
The 2020 Helpmann Awards have been cancelled
While Live Performance Australia’s national awards will not go ahead this year, Melbourne’s Green Room Awards will be presented in an online ceremony.
March 31, 2020
Editor’s Letter: Thank Heavens for Music
Things are impermanent, life is impermanent, but music and the arts are lasting joys.
March 26, 2020
Review: Carmen and the Staging of Spain (Michael Christoforidis & Elizabeth Kertesz)
How the Belle Époque saw Bizet’s free-spirited heroine.
March 25, 2020
OA stands down most of its staff on an employee support package
Staff who have been stood down by OA from March 30 until the end of May will be able to access up to 80 percent of their regular salary.
March 25, 2020
Academics call for urgent government support for the arts
Over 100 academics have sent an open letter to the Federal Government saying that Australia's cultural future is at stake and calling for urgent support.
April 3, 2020
Bell Shakespeare announces film festival
The Bell Shakespeare Shorts Festival is open to Australian primary and secondary students.
April 1, 2020
New cultural sector support from the City of Sydney and City of Melbourne
The City of Sydney endorses a $3.5M package, the City of Melbourne offers $2M in grants, and Tasmania delivers $1.5M in funding and operational measures worth $2M.
March 31, 2020
Australia Council announces new Resilience Fund
The new fund will operate across three streams: Survive, Adapt, Create. The suspended Arts and Disability Mentorships have been reopened.
March 31, 2020
Sydney Opera House launches a new digital program
From our House to Yours will offer full-length performances and talks, footage, podcasts, articles and behind-the-scenes content.
March 31, 2020
The 2020 Helpmann Awards have been cancelled
While Live Performance Australia’s national awards will not go ahead this year, Melbourne’s Green Room Awards will be presented in an online ceremony.
April 3, 2020
The Australian Ballet: At Home with Ballet TV
Unable to perform live, TAB has launched a new digital season featuring 14 of its productions, starting with The Sleeping Beauty.
April 1, 2020
New cultural sector support from the City of Sydney and City of Melbourne
The City of Sydney endorses a $3.5M package, the City of Melbourne offers $2M in grants, and Tasmania delivers $1.5M in funding and operational measures worth $2M.
April 1, 2020
QB surprises its dancers with ballet barres for home
Queensland Ballet has launched a Keep the Magic Alive campaign to share stories and raise funds, and is doing all it can to retain staff and keep its dancers fit and healthy.
March 31, 2020
Australia Council announces new Resilience Fund
The new fund will operate across three streams: Survive, Adapt, Create. The suspended Arts and Disability Mentorships have been reopened.
March 31, 2020
Sydney Opera House launches a new digital program
From our House to Yours will offer full-length performances and talks, footage, podcasts, articles and behind-the-scenes content.
March 25, 2020
Academics call for urgent government support for the arts
Over 100 academics have sent an open letter to the Federal Government saying that Australia's cultural future is at stake and calling for urgent support.
March 20, 2020
Maria Fernanda Cardosi is the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Fellow
The internationally acclaimed artist will use the $50,000 Fellowship to create digital portraits of an Australian spider.
March 20, 2020
HOTA announces new artist fund
The new Rage Against the V(irus) Fund will offer $1000 to Gold Coast-based artists to produce a digital work.
March 18, 2020
Queensland Government provides arts support during COVID-19 crisis
Queensland Arts Minister Leeanne Enoch has announced $8 million of funding relief to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus on small to medium arts companies.
March 5, 2020
Why not take a look?
An exhibition of photographic portraits from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery features 68 subjects, each with their very own ‘je ne sais quoi’.
April 1, 2020
Review: Mahler: Symphony No 8 (Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin)
Nézet-Séguin luxuriates in Mahler’s most grandiose conception.
March 20, 2020
Review: Scarlatti: 52 Sonatas (Lucas Debargue)
Scarlatti delights, but is four discs too much of a good thing?
March 20, 2020
Review: Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 4, 7 & 9 (Alexander Melnikov)
Melnikov’s probing Prokofiev goes from strength to strength.
March 20, 2020
Review: Shostakovich plays Shostakovich (Dmitri Shostakovich)
Melodiya opens a unique window on time.
March 18, 2020
Review: Beethoven 2020: Plenty of Bang for the Bucks
The new Beethoven 2020 Complete Edition set really does set a new benchmark, and includes many of the greatest Beethoven recordings of all time, says Clive Paget.
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