On Air & Online: Radio and streaming in May 2024
This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
Barrie Kosky’s brilliant makeover of Brecht, Weill and Hauptmann’s flawed masterpiece leaves you wondering how it could be performed any other way.
Rear Window meets Cabaret in this joyous and sometimes achingly romantic exposé of desire, intimacy and love.
Making the most of a spectacular setting, Stephen Page’s first work since leaving Bangarra is surprisingly intimate given its grand scale.
Presented in Australia for the first time, Robert Lepage’s puppetry-based staging of Stravinsky’s short works is as brilliant as ever.
A marvel of stagecraft, Mario Banushi’s semi-autobiographical meditation on grief is as poetic as it is horrific.
Anne Cawrse and Kate Llewellyn’s song cycle is a transcendent work, its world premiere hopefully the first of many more performances to come.
In-concert operas are sometimes regarded as the poor relation of their fully staged cousins. But can less be more?
Ahead of an Adelaide Festival performance of their two song cycles, Nigel Westlake and Lior talk about their collaborative process and what comes first: the words or music.
Ahead of his Australian debut, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson talks about performing Bach’s Goldberg Variations around the world.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
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