Music

2026 season announcements: our rolling guide to the performing arts
Orchestras, recital centres, theatre companies and more: we're compiling a list of 2026 season announcements, to be updated regularly, for…

Back to the Future: The Musical set for 2025 Sydney premiere
Everything you need to know about the Olivier Award-winning musical, which is based on the 1985 film starring Michael J…

2026 Adelaide Festival reveals its first two productions
Fearless French actor Isabelle Huppert and acclaimed early music specialists Ensemble Pygmalion will perform exclusively at the 2026 Adelaide Festival.

Concert pianist – so you want my arts job?
Alexander Gavrylyuk is an internationally acclaimed concert pianist. How does he manage his busy career?

The Unconformity: anything but usual - the intimate festival changing how we engage
The intimate and daring Tasmanian festival, The Unconformity announces its October program - and it's a cracker.

SIX60 to perform on the Sydney Opera House steps in 2025
New Zealand band SIX60 are set to light up the Sydney Opera House steps later this year.

Ordinary Days review: a new New-York set musical at fortyfivedownstairs
Ordinary Days is an ode to chance encounters and the magic waiting to be found in metropolitan life

My Brilliant Career: MTC announces encore season of original musical in 2026
The critically acclaimed musical theatre adaptation of Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career returns to the MTC in 2026.

CEO Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) – so you want my arts job?
Michael Sterzinger explains how he went from life as a tuba player in the Bavarian Youth Orchestra to being CEO…

Ghosts of Abbotsford Convent exorcised by poetic and musical collaboration
Poet Nam Le and former ANAM resident artist, pianist Anna Goldsworthy, join ANAM students to explore the Convent’s ‘fraught history’.