April 19, 2019
Review: Bach’s St Matthew Passion (WASO, St George’s Cathedral Consort)
Truncated version of the classic not short on power and passion.
April 19, 2019
Naxos announces major new Brazilian music project
The label plans to record and release over 100 rare works by a dozen important composers.
April 18, 2019
Harry Sdraulig named 2019 Layton Emerging Composer Fellow
The rising star composer will have the opportunity to write two works for the Australia Ensemble over 12 months.
April 18, 2019
Australians at the 2019 Proms
Jessica Cottis and Stuart Skelton will perform at this year's Proms, with Brett Dean composing a musical birthday gift.
April 18, 2019
Weaving a path to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Kip Williams and a top cast explore the truth and mendacity in Tennessee Williams’ play.
April 18, 2019
Drive in and buckle up for Throttle
The Farm stages a B-grade thriller viewed from inside your own car.
April 17, 2019
Charlie Chaplin: The Musical Tramp
He found fame with his iconic screen persona, but not everyone knows Charlie Chaplin was a gifted violinist who composed the scores for every one of his films. Clive Paget talks to Philippe Quint, who has arranged a dozen of his greatest hits, about The Little Tramp’s musical connections.
April 17, 2019
Notre Dame Cathedral’s historic organ survives blaze
The Cathedral’s organist Olivier Latry has thanked everyone for their messages of support.
April 19, 2019
Review: Bach’s St Matthew Passion (WASO, St George’s Cathedral Consort)
Truncated version of the classic not short on power and passion.
April 16, 2019
Review: Erin Helyard (Lanyon Piano Performance)
Erin Helyard produces an extraordinary palette of light and shade in this recital drawn from a manuscript brought to Australia by the artist and diarist Georgiana McCrae.
April 15, 2019
Review: Sibelius Violin Concerto (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra)
An impassioned performance with fervent stage presence from Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma.
April 15, 2019
Review: Oxana Shevchenko (Sydney International Piano Competition)
Oxana Shevchenko and the Tinalley String Quartet bring gleaming warmth to Shostakovich's Piano Quintet.
April 15, 2019
Review: Trio Wanderer (Utzon Music Series)
A wandering ride from Esterházy to Russia via Prague.
April 19, 2019
Review: Bach’s St Matthew Passion (WASO, St George’s Cathedral Consort)
Truncated version of the classic not short on power and passion.
April 19, 2019
Naxos announces major new Brazilian music project
The label plans to record and release over 100 rare works by a dozen important composers.
April 18, 2019
Harry Sdraulig named 2019 Layton Emerging Composer Fellow
The rising star composer will have the opportunity to write two works for the Australia Ensemble over 12 months.
April 18, 2019
Australians at the 2019 Proms
Jessica Cottis and Stuart Skelton will perform at this year's Proms, with Brett Dean composing a musical birthday gift.
April 18, 2019
Review: Imaginations (Acacia Quartet, Matt Withers)
Withers' Competition bears fruit in an engaging album of (mostly) new repertoire.
April 16, 2019
Composer Ellen Reid wins Pulitzer Prize for debut opera
Reid's "disconcertingly sweet" opera p r i s m explores the lingering effects of sexual trauma.
April 3, 2019
Review: A Flowering Tree (Opera Queensland)
John Adams’ South Indian folktale blooms into a fabulous operatic performance.
April 3, 2019
The Greatest Voices of all Time
Over 100 of today’s finest Australian and international singers have cast their votes to determine the most influential voices across the ages. Now, 30 singers tell us what makes our top 30 truly great.
April 2, 2019
The 36th Green Room Awards Announced
Meistersinger takes out best Production in the Opera category while Beautiful: The Carole King Musical cleans up in Musical Theatre at this year’s Green Room Awards.
April 1, 2019
The April 2019 issue of Limelight Magazine is now on sale
The greatest voices of all time. Why women in the ballet industry are at a turning point. Charlie Chaplin's secret life. Andreas Ottensamer. Bach.
April 18, 2019
Weaving a path to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Kip Williams and a top cast explore the truth and mendacity in Tennessee Williams’ play.
April 13, 2019
Review: Mosquitoes (Sydney Theatre Company)
Lucy Kirkwood's latest sees an excess of themes redeemed by emotional truths.
April 11, 2019
Geoffrey Rush wins defamation case
Federal Court Justice Michael Wigney found that Nationwide News, publisher of The Daily Telegraph, failed to prove that the imputations made in two articles about Rush’s behaviour in 2017 were substantially true.
April 11, 2019
Review: The Gospel According to Paul (Soft Tread)
Jonathan Biggins gives such an uncanny performance you’d swear he’s Keating in this hilariously funny, astute, inspiring show.
April 10, 2019
Review: West Side Story (Opera Australia, GWB Entertainment)
The young cast sure can dance, but lacks the dramatic chops to sell this dark tale.
April 18, 2019
Drive in and buckle up for Throttle
The Farm stages a B-grade thriller viewed from inside your own car.
April 11, 2019
Emerging female choreographer wins Sydney Opera House residency
Amelia Drummond will have the opportunity to create a new work for The Australian Ballet this October.
April 10, 2019
Yin & Yang at the Ballet
Artistic Directors of ballet companies are usually male, as they all are in Australia. But here, the Executive Directors are all female. Dilshani Weerasinghe and Jessica Machin tell Jill Brown about their relationship with their artistic counterparts, and the future directions they want to shape.
April 1, 2019
The April 2019 issue of Limelight Magazine is now on sale
The greatest voices of all time. Why women in the ballet industry are at a turning point. Charlie Chaplin's secret life. Andreas Ottensamer. Bach.
March 30, 2019
Review: Season One (Sydney Dance Company)
An exciting triple bill with two new works, and the exhilarating mainstage debut of Melanie Lane’s WOOF.
April 16, 2019
Marcel Duchamp: The Chess Game of Art
A major Marcel Duchamp retrospective comes to the Art Gallery of NSW.
April 15, 2019
Inaugural Katthy Cavaliere Fellows Announced
The three female-identifying Australian artists will each receive $100,000 to create ambitious new works for ACCA, Carriageworks and MONA.
March 28, 2019
Justine Varga wins the 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize
Her winning artwork challenges the traditional distinctions between photography and drawing.
March 21, 2019
Waste not, want not
The newly announced winners of the Victorian Design Challenge have come up with ingenious ways to reduce waste.
March 18, 2019
Edmund Capon has died
The highly regarded, gregarious former director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales has died at 78.
April 18, 2019
Review: Imaginations (Acacia Quartet, Matt Withers)
Withers' Competition bears fruit in an engaging album of (mostly) new repertoire.
April 15, 2019
Review: Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Jaap van Zweden)
Hong Kong sees a suitably splendid end of the operatic world.
April 15, 2019
Review: Stravinsky & Rimsky-Korsakov (Royal Liverpool PO/Vasily Petrenko)
Vasily Petrenko kills two Russian birds with one Liverpudlian CD.
April 15, 2019
Review: The Classic André Previn: Complete RCA & Columbia Collection (Various Orchestras & Soloists/André Previn)
Sony’s Previn birthday box becomes a fitting memorial.
April 15, 2019
Review: Saint-Saëns: Symphony No 3 (Paul Jacobs, Utah Symphony/Thierry Fischer)
Saint-Saëns with American muscle and Gallic lyricism.
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