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Brisbane Lions help Queensland Ballet take Delibes' classic into a whole new league....

A 170 year old Mendelssohn manuscript, found in a private collection, to be auctioned next month....

WASO captures the light and the dark side of post-Romantic Russian masterworks....

Gotta love those musical mums. Celebrate Mother's Day in style with Sutherland, Domingo, Gigli and more....

A little song that went missing 140 years ago has just been rediscovered. Hear a performance of this charming 29-bar song from the BBC....

Four Ukrainian dancers perform a Tchaikovskian protest in front of military tanks....

Or why you really should catch the charismatic Israeli virtuoso who’s reinvigorating his instrument....

Artistic Director Slava Grigoryan has a few more surprises in store for guitar fans this July....

Originally written for television, Aaron Copland’s opera The Tender Land is a beautiful and moving story about coming of age in the face of rural prejudice. Lyric Opera Of Melbourne’s brand new production explores the divide between theatre and real life and demonstrates how relevant, powerful and accessible opera can be in the modern world....

Lyric Opera make an American gem newly relevant with an excellent cast and a whiff of the prairies....

Ukrainian ballerinas perform protest in front of military tanks....

Hear an intriguing program pairing John Adams' gorgeous Harmonium with an oratorio by black Canadian-American composer R. Nathaniel Dett — a work whose 1937 premiere was weirdly cut short....

Australia’s 21st-century string quartet reveal the whiteboard of dreams and the harpsichord of shame....

The mind behind the music of Inception , Gladiator and more says he was looking for someone who would take his prompt and "ignore it as much as possible." He and the winner joined NPR's Rachel Martin....

One of the most celebrated voices of her generation talks about her new autobiography, Stand Up Straight and Sing! The opera star journeyed from the segregated South to a divided Berlin and beyond....

Saleem Abboud Ashkar proves a poetic Mendelssohnian but Wigglesworth's Rachmaninov is more variable. ...

The Australian soprano on her career and being pulled out of the Glyndebourne chorus by Sir David McVicar....

What was Elgar doing in a mental institution in the 1880s? Writing polkas and quadrilles, apparently!...

Study shows musos having drastically increased risks of deafness and tinnitus....

Something old, something new and something borrowed in an eclectic night of virtuoso dance....