Run by Moogahlin Performing Arts, this year's festival will develop six new works by First Nations storytellers, four of which will be performed live this weekend as part of Sydney Festival.
The long-time Limelight critic has died at age of 81 after a long illness.
The Australian pianist tells us about fusing classical and pop music, her love of house music, and how being grounded in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic inspired a new album of piano essentials.
William Barton and Véronique Serret evoke an ever-shifting landscape that grips the audience from start to finish.
The groups are just two of the recipients of Create NSW’s Play the City initiative, which is helping artists put on COVID-Safe concerts in the centre of Sydney.
Australian director Elijah Moshinsky, who had a distinguished career in opera, has died at the age of 75.
Students, his wife, even the Pope, Engelbert Humperdinck could forget about them all.
To mark Limelight's 200th issue, we're taking a look back at some of our favourite stories and covers – and making them free to read for the next 30 days.
William Barton and Véronique Serret evoke an ever-shifting landscape that grips the audience from start to finish.
The new music ensemble leads an innovative, thought-provoking, and moving tour through Erskineville, which addresses Australian identity.
Though the message is mostly opaque, the 10 glorious humans performing are something special.
A sombre, sometimes explosive exploration of percussion set to the tense groove of US civil unrest.
Andrew Haveron braves wild weather as Vivaldi’s concertos are reimagined for the climate disaster of the 21st century.
Claire Cowan's Hansel and Gretel ballet score is a delectable treat for young and old.
The long-time Limelight critic has died at age of 81 after a long illness.
Run by Moogahlin Performing Arts, this year's festival will develop six new works by First Nations storytellers, four of which will be performed live this weekend as part of Sydney Festival.
The groups are just two of the recipients of Create NSW’s Play the City initiative, which is helping artists put on COVID-Safe concerts in the centre of Sydney.
William Barton and Véronique Serret evoke an ever-shifting landscape that grips the audience from start to finish.
Australian director Elijah Moshinsky, who had a distinguished career in opera, has died at the age of 75.
Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared is given an exquisite staging before a bold new work tears it to shreds in this intelligent and entertaining double bill from Sydney Chamber Opera.
Julie Lea Goodwin is gorgeous as the merry widow Hanna Glavari, and perfectly supported by Alexander Lewis as Danilo Danilovich.
Jansson J. Antmann, Steve Dow, Deborah Jones and Ian Whitney analyse this year’s offerings in theatres and concert halls.
Highlights coming up in online streaming as well as on ABC Classic and the independent radio stations ArtSound, Fine Music Sydney, 3MBS, 4MBS and 5MBS.
Run by Moogahlin Performing Arts, this year's festival will develop six new works by First Nations storytellers, four of which will be performed live this weekend as part of Sydney Festival.
Though the message is mostly opaque, the 10 glorious humans performing are something special.
The RØDE Founder and Chairman, who made headlines last year with his purchase of Kurt Cobain’s ‘MTV Unplugged’ guitar, has given the Festival its largest ever philanthropic donation.
QPAC and Sydney Festival have both had to cancel some performances due to COVID-19, but shows are now going ahead.
Andrea James’s biographical play about Evonne Goolagong Cawley tells an important story, cleverly staged on a tennis court.
Claire Cowan's Hansel and Gretel ballet score is a delectable treat for young and old.
Run by Moogahlin Performing Arts, this year's festival will develop six new works by First Nations storytellers, four of which will be performed live this weekend as part of Sydney Festival.
Judith Neilson’s new cultural centre is kicking off 2021 with a site-specific work from choreographer Rafael Bonachela and Sydney Dance Company, with plenty more to come.
Mary Li’s memoir is a splendid companion piece to that by her husband, Li Cunxin.
Aurélien Scannella, Krzysztof Pastor and Lisa Pavane talk to Jansson J. Antmann about the impact of COVID on the ballet world.
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.
Read our features on religion, music and immortality, a Brazilian opera festival where everything is free, adapting literature for the theatre, as well as an extract from Alex Ross’s new book Wagnerism.
Claire Cowan's Hansel and Gretel ballet score is a delectable treat for young and old.
Shaham finds key to Mozart we can sing along to.
All Bach but no barre in agile new Goldbergs.
Modern and minimal string quartets shimmer in brand new guises.
Kalnits delivers powerful Prokofiev in a new guise.
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