A final concert full of vitality, with guest star Erin Helyard.

The American mezzo delivered a Baroque rockstar performance, but the Orchestra of the Antipodes was no mere backing band.

Strong music making, including a compelling performance by Vivica Genaux, is hampered by hands-off direction.

Long a champion of Johann Adolph Hasse, American mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux waxes lyrical about a composer whose vocal writing she compares to the act of spreading peanut butter.

In a roundtable chat, mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux and artists of Pinchgut discuss the weight of history in the Australian premiere of Hasse's opera.

From fine food and wine to Bach in the Barns, the festival celebrates the wonders of what Tasmania has to offer.

The line-up includes the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Moscow's Sretensky Monastery Choir, and Meryl Tankard's Two Feet performed by Natalia Osipova.

Festival Director Allanah Dopson and harpsichordist Erin Helyard give us a taste of the upcoming festival, now in its second year.

Ahead of the release of his period-instrument Winterreise for ABC Classics, the Australian baritone talks about preparing this monumental song cycle with the help of some 19th-century singers.

The ACO revels in the joyful complexities of Bach’s legendary Goldberg Variations.

Erin Helyard gives us masterworks from Monteverdi and Vivaldi, as well as two recitals with an Australian premiere to whet the appetite.

Ahead of its Australian premiere, Bernard Labadie talks to Justine Nguyen about his string arrangement of Bach’s towering Goldberg Variations.

An interesting production not without its problems, balanced by some strong performances.

After directing Theodora for Pinchgut in 2016, Lindy Hume is back to tackle another Handel oratorio, this time Athalia. She writes about why this rather arcane work is another Handelian masterpiece.

Tailor-made Handel for French superstar and his superb band.

A new opera company run by young artists will have its first ever performance this month. We speak with tenor Spencer Darby about AOC's inception and Handel's Ariodante.