With half the country in lockdown, this month’s focus is on music to soothe the spirit, from Mozart, Fauré and Pärt, to Jordi Savall’s Victorian Odyssey

The work is the brainchild of baritone Joshua Hopkins whose sister was murdered in 2015.

As she prepares to lead the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in its return to the concert hall, the conductor tells us what she's been up to during the shutdowns.

From Nicola Benedetti’s “benchmark recording” of Elgar to Lang Lang’s less successful take on Bach.

Dynamic new music projects are emerging from lockdown, Julian Day reports.

The Australian conductor discusses her synaesthesia, her new role at Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and her love of butterflies.

Find out what's on stage – and streaming online – in October from Limelight editors Jo Litson, Angus McPherson and Clive Paget.

Catch up on what's been in the Limelight with the top arts stories to recently make headlines.

The Director of the National Gallery of Australia tells us about his mother’s inspiring passion for music, his own eclectic tastes from classical to electronic, and his love of vintage vinyl.

With an ambitious new musical survey underway, Clive Paget looks at the 18th-century movement that made bold men quake with fear and women fall into a faint.

When Claire Edwardes first discovered this weird and wonderful instrument in Holland she thought it might be rather one-dimensional, but in fact, she has discovered it is full of sonic possibilities.

Why the two wildly different productions are both such hits, and asks how the misogynistic opera is received today.

While live performance is returning, travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic mean virtually no international artists will tour here. Will we seize the chance to create a greater space for Indigenous, female and ethnically diverse voices to speak to us about Australia today?

Clive Paget picks 18th and 21st century winners, and then puts three rings on it.

The Australian flute player, who has just released her debut album, on moving to France with just a flute and a backpack.

Jake Heggie’s close to the bone new opera ticks all the right bel canto boxes.