13 April, 2021
Classical Music, Theatre
2020 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards announced
Andrew Ford and Kylie Bracknell are among the winners in this year’s expanded awards.
13 April, 2021
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental
Illuminate Adelaide is announced
Adelaide will be illuminated in a new winter festival featuring an innovative program of music, art, light and technology.
12 April, 2021
Classical Music
ABC launches new music commissioning fund
The $90,000 fund, launched by ABC Classic and ABC Jazz, will support the creation of new music from emerging and diverse Australian voices.
12 April, 2021
Classical Music
Classical:NEXT Innovation Award 2021 longlist announced
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall and Damian Barbeler’s hiberNATION Festival of the Lo-fi are among the initiatives honoured.
12 April, 2021
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
2021 Adelaide Cabaret Festival program announced
Artistic Director Alan Cumming unveils the full program for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, describing it as his personal "cabaret love letter" to Australia.
22 March, 2021
Classical Music
A Viennese Whirl
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.
12 April, 2021
Opera
Review: La Clemenza di Tito (National Opera)
Canberra's new National Opera makes an impressive debut with a handsome production and some mouthwatering vocal artistry.
7 April, 2021
Classical Music, Theatre
What to look out for in Limelight’s May 2021 issue
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.
12 April, 2021
Review: Enigma (Queensland Symphony Orchestra)
An awe-inspiring event from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, with Joseph Nolan pulling out all the stops.
12 April, 2021
Supported by 
Review: A Space of One’s Own (Dreambox Collective)
A heart-warming, inclusive event with great potential as a model for integrating music and social change.
12 April, 2021
Review: La Clemenza di Tito (National Opera)
Canberra's new National Opera makes an impressive debut with a handsome production and some mouthwatering vocal artistry.
12 April, 2021
Supported by
Review: Home, I’m Darling (Sydney Theatre Company)
A roundly entertaining and sumptuous-looking comic foray into the false calls of nostalgia.
12 April, 2021
Review: Launch concert (AVÉ – Australian Vocal Ensemble)
Hail to the sing for the Australian Vocal Ensemble’s glittering launch.
9 April, 2021
Review: Because the Night (Malthouse Theatre)
A thrilling, tantalising theatrical adventure through an Elsinore very different to Shakespeare’s.
13 April, 2021
Illuminate Adelaide is announced
Adelaide will be illuminated in a new winter festival featuring an innovative program of music, art, light and technology.
13 April, 2021
2020 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards announced
Andrew Ford and Kylie Bracknell are among the winners in this year’s expanded awards.
12 April, 2021
ABC launches new music commissioning fund
The $90,000 fund, launched by ABC Classic and ABC Jazz, will support the creation of new music from emerging and diverse Australian voices.
12 April, 2021
Review: Enigma (Queensland Symphony Orchestra)
An awe-inspiring event from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, with Joseph Nolan pulling out all the stops.
12 April, 2021
Classical:NEXT Innovation Award 2021 longlist announced
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall and Damian Barbeler’s hiberNATION Festival of the Lo-fi are among the initiatives honoured.
12 April, 2021
Supported by
Review: A Space of One’s Own (Dreambox Collective)
A heart-warming, inclusive event with great potential as a model for integrating music and social change.
12 April, 2021
Review: La Clemenza di Tito (National Opera)
Canberra's new National Opera makes an impressive debut with a handsome production and some mouthwatering vocal artistry.
2 April, 2021
Review: Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann)
Thielemann and co give the meaning of a night to remember.
1 April, 2021
Helena Dix on the tough road back from COVID
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.
1 April, 2021
Review: Graupner: Antiochus und Stratonica (Boston Early Music Festival)
Another obscure opera triumphs courtesy of the Boston Early Music Festival.
31 March, 2021
Pinchgut Opera announces the Taryn Fiebig Scholar program
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.
31 March, 2021
Opera Australia announces its 2021 Sydney Winter Season
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.
13 April, 2021
2020 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards announced
Andrew Ford and Kylie Bracknell are among the winners in this year’s expanded awards.
12 April, 2021
2021 Adelaide Cabaret Festival program announced
Artistic Director Alan Cumming unveils the full program for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, describing it as his personal "cabaret love letter" to Australia.
12 April, 2021
Supported by
Review: Home, I’m Darling (Sydney Theatre Company)
A roundly entertaining and sumptuous-looking comic foray into the false calls of nostalgia.
9 April, 2021
Review: Because the Night (Malthouse Theatre)
A thrilling, tantalising theatrical adventure through an Elsinore very different to Shakespeare’s.
8 April, 2021
Review: Four Winds Festival 2021
Sublime moments were there for the taking at this year's Four Winds Festival, as strangers became friends.
8 April, 2021
Supported by
Review: Half Time (Nineteen 98 Productions, Hayes Theatre Co)
Senior citizens cut a rug in this musical about growing old disgracefully.
8 April, 2021
Winner of the 2020 Telstra Ballet Awards revealed
It was a double honour for soloist Nathan Brook who took home both the Telstra Rising Star Award and the People's Choice Award.
8 April, 2021
Jacob Nash appointed as Sydney Festival Creative Artist in Residence
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.
8 April, 2021
Review: Four Winds Festival 2021
Sublime moments were there for the taking at this year's Four Winds Festival, as strangers became friends.
7 April, 2021
Supported by
Review: New York Dialects (The Australian Ballet)
The Australian Ballet returns triumphant with a fresh take on 20th-century canon.
22 March, 2021
My Music: Mary Li
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.
22 March, 2021
On Stage in April: Classical Music, Opera, Theatre & Dance
What’s happening on stage this month? We’ve put together a list of the most exciting events taking place in April 2021.
29 March, 2021
RISING festival unveils inaugural program
The new festival, which replaces the long-running Melbourne Festival, will feature work by Patricia Piccinini, Deborah Cheetham, Matthias Schack-Arnott and more.
24 February, 2021
Tuning into the paintings of Clarice Beckett
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.
6 January, 2021
Tim Draxl: In Between
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.
23 November, 2020
The December 2020 issue of Limelight is now available
The new-look Limelight magazine includes major features written by Mahima Macchione, Jane Albert, Carole M. Cusack and Alex Ross.
23 November, 2020
A Single Voice
Susan Philipsz’s mesmerising installation, showing at the NGV Triennial, uses a violinist on screen and a series of speakers to “visualise the sound”.
19 November, 2020
Dreambox Collective offers up a Nightlight in dark times
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.
13 April, 2021
Review: Schumann: Liederkreis, Dichterliebe (Andrew Goodwin, Daniel de Borah)
Meet a sweet tenor with the gift of tongues.
12 April, 2021
Review: Hidden Treasure: Hans Gál’s unpublished Lieder
Captivating Lieder from a forgotten master of song.
10 April, 2021
Review: Berg: Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs & Three Pieces for Orchestra (San Francisco Symphony)
Gil Shaham shines in Berg's heavenly Violin Concerto.
9 April, 2021
Review: Bruckner: Symphonies Nos 2 & 8, Wagner: Meistersinger Prelude (Gewandhausorchester, Andris Nelsons)
Nelsons negotiates both the foothills and the peaks in triumphant Bruckner.
8 April, 2021
Review: Australian Premieres Volume 2 (David Stanhope & His Orchestra)
Virtual orchestra revives underplayed works but not same as real thing.
7 April, 2021
Review: Andrew Schultz: Maali (West Australian Symphony Orchestra)
Not your usual swansong: Andrew Schultz celebrates the maali, Perth's black swans.
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