This issue includes features on Ermonela Jaho, Nico Muhly, Nicholas Carter, Come From Away, Janáček, and Paul McCreesh's fantasy coronation.
As Ermonela Jaho prepares to take on Donizetti’s Three Queens for Opera Australia, beginning with Anna Bolena, Justine Nguyen talks to the soprano about the role’s challenges and delves into the origins of the operas – which Donizetti never envisaged as a trilogy.
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This month, Lynden Barber reviews the Netflix series Delhi Crime, based on a real, brutal crime committed in 2012, and the droll UK series Detectorists.
It was his understanding of human emotions that made the 18th-century composer a true operatic genius.
Ahead of her first performance in 11 months, the New York-based pianist talks to Limelight about the allure of Philip Glass's music, which she will perform at the Sydney Opera House's Bennelong restaurant.
Artistic Director Linda Thompson tells us about the renamed Gertrude Opera’s pandemic experience, plans for the future and upcoming performance of David Lang’s chamber opera at Melbourne’s Federation Square.
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.
Students, his wife, even the Pope, Engelbert Humperdinck could forget about them all.
Hannah French explores the life, music and mysteries of a remarkable Venetian whose exquisite vocal works are without parallel.
Tamara-Anna Cislowska tells us about a concert at Sydney Festival that will see six pianists play six grand pianos in the Sydney Town Hall.
Collaboration is the name of the game in Cameron Lam's first Australian Art Music playlist for 2021.
Old mates Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Guy Noble tell us about their upcoming recital at City Recital Hall and why live performance should be considered an essential service.
Aurélien Scannella, Krzysztof Pastor and Lisa Pavane talk to Jansson J. Antmann about the impact of COVID on the ballet world.
Rosbaud's Mahler, Boult's LPO recordings and a box of modern rarities from Karl-Heinz Steffens are among this month's highlights.
With so much great material for TV streaming viewers to choose from, the conundrum is how to navigate the oversupply, says Lynden Barber in his latest column.
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.
Seann Miley Moore, currently performing in Rent, and Glace Chase, soon to star in trans love story Triple X, talk to Steve Dow about gender diversity in Australian theatre.
Ben Neutze discovers how Sydney Theatre Company’s universally acclaimed production magically melds old theatricality with cutting-edge technology.
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