The American Heldentenor died of inoperable cancer just two weeks after announcing his withdrawal from this year's Bayreuth Festival.

In Ashleigh Wilson's new book, Transcendence, 50 artists share 50 memories across 50 years at the Sydney Opera House.

This month's features explore OA's new 'Digital Ring', the stage adaptation of The Dictionary of Lost Words, Mahler's Ninth, and Sir Eugene Goossens' push for the SOH.

A fascinating contemporary Australian opera inspired by Renaissance music and a true Renaissance Man.

On the eve of Opera Australia’s ‘Digital Ring ’, we examine Wagner’s timeless epic.

Dharug composer Christopher Sainsbury has written a new opera for Victorian Opera, with a libretto by First Nations playwright Jane Harrison.

Students from NIDA and the Sydney Conservatorium are staging Elena Kats-Chernin’s jazzy reimagining of Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea.

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

A round-up of our recent news reports.

The celebrated Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez discusses making his Australian debut with a recital tour.

This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

This month we are in vocal heaven with period instrument Rodgers & Hammerstein, Shakespearean song, an operatic take on Wuthering Heights, and a resurrected Parsifal.