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Alanah Parkin's Garage Sale
1+ week, 2+ day ago (129+ words) Nominee Best Comedy Award 2025 Melbourne Fringe Greg and Denise have too much stuff! Narre Warren South's most notorious couple are moving to the retirement village up the road, and they can't possibly take everything with them. Join Greg, Denise and…...
Do people still care about opera? An insider raises some doubts
15+ hour, 21+ min ago (1683+ words) Timoth'e Chalamet's controversial comments and a new book by Caitlin Vincent, Opera Wars, lead Peter Tregear to ponder what (and who) is opera for? In a now notorious interview, actor Timoth'e Chalamet declared he only wanted to work in a…...
Leonard Weiss steps up to historic podium
20+ hour, 8+ min ago (443+ words) Weiss becomes the first Australian to conduct a subscription concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Australian conductor Leonard Weiss will make history this week when he becomes the first Australian to conduct a subscription concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra,…...
Dance star makes leap to Germany
20+ hour, 29+ min ago (540+ words) Callum Linnane leaves The Australian Ballet for Principal Artist role with Hamburg Ballet. Principal Artist Callum Linnane will leave The Australian Ballet after more than a decade to join Hamburg Ballet as a principal artist from the 202627 season, the company…...
★★★★ Gloria (Co3 Contemporary Dance & New Zealand Dance Company)
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (661+ words) A compelling triple bill explores mortality through ritual, sculpture and ecstatic movement, uniting two companies in vivid collaboration. Gloria " A Triple Bill contains works by New Zealanders Douglas Wright and Moss Te Ururangi Patterson, and New Zealand-born Raewyn Hill. Hill…...
Leadership change at Co3 Contemporary Dance
22+ hour, 35+ min ago (364+ words) Raewyn Hill, artistic director of Perth's Co3 Contemporary Dance, steps away from the company she founded. Raewyn Hill will step down as inaugural artistic director of Co3 Contemporary Dance Australia at the end of 2026, bringing to a close a 12-year tenure that…...
The Book of Mormon
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (519+ words) Hello! The Mormons are back! First seen in Australia in 2017, The Book of Mormon is blasphemous, scurrilous, puerile, rude, satirical " and one of the funniest, sweetest, most joyous musicals ever staged. Written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt…...
Bizet: Carmen (Adèle Charvet, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Hervé Niquet)
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (250+ words) Niquet and Charvet's bristling Carmen challenge Gardiner's HIP first choice. Herv" Niquet's Carmen races out of the traps with bright, bracing, bristling period instrument bravura, brisk, propulsive tempi stoking up the energy and excitement to boiling point. Saturated with Spanish…...
ANAM celebrates a “short and colourful life”
2+ day, 5+ min ago (408+ words) The Australian National Academy of Music launches a "time capsule" project capturing three decades of institutional life through the voices of those who have shaped it. The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) will mark its 30th anniversary in 2026 with a…...
Australian Accent – April 2026
2+ day, 10+ min ago (1164+ words) Welcome to the April edition of Australian Accent, Limelight's unashamedly parochial monthly round-up of the Australian music being played on our concert stages and in our recital halls. Got a premiere to puff? A piece getting a repeat performance? Email…...