ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE HAMER HALL

The Phantom of the Opera is a captivating musical composed by the legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Charles Hart and additional contributions by ...

dir: Erika Haaland....

Lauded by the ancient Greeks, hubris is the devastating, dangerous and of course exciting characteristic which often led to the hero’s downfall. So exactly how ...

Before he was an Emmy-winning TV and film actor, Mandy Patinkin was already a Tony-winning Broadway star. Patinkin, star of the hit television series Homeland ...

If you’re a full-time student, you have the chance to experience the MSO for less than the price of a movie ticket. UPBEAT allows you ...

World-class conductors and soloists perform in the MSO’s series of eight outstanding concerts for the astute classical music lover, featuring masterpieces from the most revered ...

The ACO’s 2016 journey through the late quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven culminates with a presentation of the composer’s own favourite, String Quartet Op.131, the ...

Experience 6 exceptional concerts in the MSO’s after-work series. The best way to begin the working week – a 6.30pm concert, featuring treasured masterpieces of ...

Enhance your weekend with the finest conductors and soloists in the MSO’s series of eight outstanding concerts. Featuring world-class conductors and soloists performing great masterworks ...

A great way to spend your Saturday; lunch at Southbank or in the city followed by a wonderful afternoon performance in the glorious surrounds of ...

Beethoven’s five Piano Concertos, as with his nine Symphonies, represent classical music’s greatest monuments. Given their formidable technical requirements, the concertos are rarely performed as ...

This package will open your ears even wider. First, learn about three masterworks by J.S. Bach, Ravel and Haydn from conductor Richard Gill. Then, at ...

There’s always something new to know about music, and conductor Richard Gill always has something new to say. Expand your appreciation for music in this ...

Despite over 80 years of combined music-making, Cinemusica marks the first exciting collaboration between Synergy Percussion and the ACO, showcasing the thrilling sonic possibilities of ...

Finnish violinist and long-time friend of the ACO, Pekka Kuusisto, takes up his position as ACO Collective Artistic Director for this season-opening salvo of far-reaching ...

The inimitable Bramwell Tovey joins the MSO as conductor, pianist and host in this celebration of the great musical traditions of Christmas, from famous orchestral ...

Join conductor Bramwell Tovey, the MSO Chorus and renowned international soloists for one of the MSO’s most beloved Christmas traditions, Messiah. This life-affirming spiritual masterpiece ...

The Basel Chamber Orchestra makes its Australian debut in these special performances alongside award-winning cellist Sol Gabetta, that form part of an exchange that sees ...

Yan Pascal Tortelier celebrates the 150th anniversary of two Nordic masters. Sibelius’ majestic Finlandia is balanced against Nielsen’s spirited Violin Concerto, while the haunting tone ...

Asher Fisch conducts three masterworks that defined the Romantic era. Tchaikovsky’s stirring Romeo and Juliet is followed by the poignant melodies of Grieg’s Piano Concerto, ...

Winning a record-breaking sixth Tony® this year for her mesmerizing portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, she made theatre ...

Richard Tognetti leads the ACO in an all-Mozart program, featuring the composer's last 3 symphonies composed in a surge of inspiration between June and August ...

Under the baton of Jakub Hr?ša, the overture to Smetana’s comic opera The Bartered Bride opens a dazzling night of music. The resonant folk melodies ...

Enjoy music’s ultimate triple threat, Olli Mustonen, the Finnish virtuosic pianist; extraordinary conductor; and outstanding composer. Mustonen will perform as a soloist in Bach’s Concerto ...

Famed for her magnetic performances and sheer beauty of tone, celebrated American soprano Renée Fleming joins the MSO and Sir Andrew Davis for two Australian ...

A night of joyful music takes flight, beginning with the irrepressible overture to Rossini’s La gazza ladra. The exuberance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.17, inspired ...

Richard Tognetti leads the ACO for Brahms Symphony No.3 and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante. Brahms’ Third Symphony is a concise and confident masterpiece, mixing grandeur and ...

Sir Andrew Davis conducts a thrilling night of virtuosic composition, beginning with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Dubinushka, an evocation of the revolutionary spirit ignited through Russian folk song. ...

Written and directed by acclaimed Australian author Rodney Hall, Remembrance spans six chapters - enlistment, embarkation, training, landing, trench warfare and homecoming. One of Australia’s ...

We make the impossible possible, we obtain the unobtainable. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Australian World Orchestra for 1 night only at the Arts Centre ...

Chinese piano superstar Yuja Wang brings her acclaimed virtuosity to Prokofiev’s tempestuous Second Piano Concerto, one of the most technically demanding and spectacular works in ...

This passionate program brings to life the old-world charm of Sibelius’ Valse triste followed by the composer’s continually evolving Seventh Symphony. The world premiere of ...

A moment of soulful introspection from one of music's worldweary travellers, Mahler's Symphony No.4 recalls an age of innocence with its moments of childlike joy. ...

Intelligent, irreverent and bristling with energy, the director of the Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr, brings new life to forgotten gems of the ‘Golden ...

Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, a haunting piece interweaving the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead with the works of First World War poet Wilfred Owen, ...

Don’t miss this Melbourne International Jazz Festival opening weekend event, when the MSO shares the stage with one of America’s most legendary performers. Hailed by ...

One of the world’s most sought-after composers, Matthias Pintscher, returns to conduct the Australian premiere of idyll, an MSO co-commission with The Cleveland Orchestra and ...

With a line-up of internationally acclaimed soloists and the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir joining the Orchestra for this rare event, we invite you to sit ...

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli, MSO Principal Guest Conductor Diego Matheuz conducts Beethoven’s incidental music to Goethe’s ...

ARIA winning comedy musicians Tripod have written and performed masterfully for TV, radio, cartoons, stage musicals and countless hit live shows over almost two decades. ...

Following her enormously popular concerts in 2013, celebrated violinist Sarah Chang returns to perform Bruch’s famous Violin Concerto in G minor. A musical collage of ...

One of Australia’s great storytellers, Neil Armfield directs this heartfelt exploration of our ANZAC story featuring the music of Frederick Septimus Kelly, Elgar's Sospiri, Vaughn ...

Don’t miss this definitive performance of Berlioz’s genre-defying ‘concert opera’ featuring the dynamic pairing of MSO Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis, and celebrated Welsh bass-baritone ...

International superstar bass-baritone Bryn Terfel joins Lisa McCune, Australia’s sweetheart of the stage, for this thrilling night of Broadway classics. Raconteur, conductor and musician par ...

A major cultural event in Australia’s most multicultural metropolis, the MSO’s annual Chinese New Year concert brings together great works from the Western and Eastern ...

Richard Tognetti explores musical connections between east and west, pairing Vivaldi’s baroque masterpiece with original compositions by Aria Award winning Joseph Tawadros. Tawadros will present ...

The Australian Pops Orchestra is again proud to present the keenly awaited 2014 New Years Eve concert series at Arts Centre Melbourne in the outstanding ...

A great Christmas tradition, Handel's Messiah is a dramatic story of faith, suffering and redemption. This masterpiece of the Baroque includes memorable songs such as ...

The program begins with Yefim Bronfman in Brahms' towering Piano Concerto No.2 in which orchestra and soloist unite to create one of the grand statements ...

The very epitome of Romantic music, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 is one of the most beloved concertos in the history of the modern keyboard. Appearing ...

Hear the most famous choir in the world sing rich and beautiful music. Acknowledged as the peak of choral excellence in the great British tradition, ...

In this unmissable musical experience, he brings together one of Mahler's first masterworks - his bold and exciting First Symphony - with the Four Last ...

A sublime cycle of six tone poems in which Smetana celebrates in music the landscape, legends and folklore of the Czech nation. One day in ...

Bert himself is an experienced and highly acclaimed star of the stage and has starred in musicals such as An Officer and a Gentlemen, Guys ...

In its extravagant story of a spurned lover's imagined revenge and its vivid changes of mood, Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique is one of the key signposts ...

He's been a dangerous Don Giovanni on the opera stage and a suave, sensational Emile de Becque in South Pacific. Now international opera star Teddy ...

Piers Lane was the sensational soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto when the MSO returned to Hamer Hall in 2011. Now he returns by popular demand ...

Playing Hamer Hall on Saturday 31st May for a matinee performance at 2.30PM and an evening performance at 7.30PM. This will be a new show ...

Russell Howard, one of the UK’s most successful live comedians will embark on his first ever-national tour of Australia next May. Russell will be performing ...

One of the most characterful, incisive and impassioned violinists to be heard today' Daily Telegraph, London, Richard Tognetti joins the MSO for this rare appearance ...

The Legendary Film and theatre music star and two-time Grammy Award Winner PETULA CLARK returns for an Australian Tour by popular demand, proudly presented by ...

In 2014 The Australian Ballet School, will celebrate 50 years of excellence in training dancers of the highest quality for The Australian Ballet and many ...

This sensational musical talent makes his Melbourne Symphony Orchestra debut with a favourite guest of the Orchestra and its audiences, British conductor Mark Wigglesworth, who ...

After being raised on a diet of glamorous musicals, and screen legends such as Rita Hayworth and Ginger Rogers, Rhonda has danced her way into ...

The "Queen of '70s Pop" is back on tour after more than a decade off the road. Helen Reddy is one of the best-known recording ...

The MSO's Principal Guest Conductor, Diego Matheuz is joined for this powerful program by a young violinist, Ray Chen who is enjoying a meteoric international ...

Daniel has enjoyed tour and chart success in Australia and New Zealand for a number of years and earned himself a loyal following that stretches ...

Daniel has enjoyed tour and chart success in Australia and New Zealand for a number of years and earned himself a loyal following that stretches ...

International multiplatinum recording artist Patrizio Buanne returns to Melbourne to grace the stage of Hamer Hall for an exclusive one night only performance on Thursday ...

To witness originals - guitar vocalist Tony Hicks and drummer Bobby Elliott with Peter Howarth, Ray Stiles, Steve Lauri and Ian Parker - the LIVE ...

Prepare to be delighted by her vast repertoire including jazz tunes, contemporary songs, musical theatre and light opera. Silvie is a regular favourite at Carols ...

He returns to Melbourne to help the city celebrate the 2014 Chinese New Year (The Year of the Horse) with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Paganini ...

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David has become one of the world's pre-eminent humour writers. The great skill with which he slices through ...

Celtic Woman, under the distinct musical direction of Emmy®-nominated music producer, David Downes, combines the talents of four gifted Irish women vocalists Chloë Agnew, Lisa ...

A festive finale for the Morning Melodies season, the very popular Christmas Melodies concert returns in 2013. Sing along to your favourite Christmas songs at ...

Richard Tognetti directs from the lead violin with his trademark infectious vigour. Those who attended our recent Beethoven 9 concerts will attest to Richard's captivating ...

Swan Lake is a tale of evil, love, deception and forgiveness. An evil spell cast over a princess and her handmaidens transforms them into swans. ...

By the time of Handel’s death 17 years later it had become his most frequently performed oratorio and is now the most popular sacred work ...

Fresh from a sell-out North American tour, the world’s favourite children’s entertainment group The Wiggles will return to Hamer Hall on 14 December to perform ...

To render this concert an absolute must, Christian Tetzlaff, who makes music ‘live, breathe and sing with a directness few can equal today’ (The Guardian), ...

Resident in the opulent acoustic of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw concert hall, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has cultivated a sound that combines velvety smoothness with the steely ...

One of the world’s greatest and most unique brass ensembles, Mnozil Brass pays homage to Wagner on his 200th Jubilee. Wagner’s own City of Bayreuth ...

Martin Fröst's is probably the greatest clarinettist in the world, but more than that, he's a marvellous communicator and fantastic to watch. Astonishingly, he can ...

Join seven exciting young talents, Carlos E. Bárcenas, Kirilie Blythman, Olivia Cranwell, Christine Heald, Jeremy Kleeman, Timothy Reynolds and Daniel Todd on an unforgettable operatic ...

As big, bold and beautiful as his ballet music for Gayaneh and Spartacus, Khatchaturian’s Violin Concerto is a powerhouse concerto tailor-made for the sublimely talented ...

Now Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular musical comedy, with all the laughs, songs and romance that made it a long running Broadway smash, is back ...

Ethereal and otherworldly, Clannad makes music to be transported by: haunting ballads and virtuosic musicianship that conjures a captivating echo of Ireland past. Framed by ...

The Fourth is Brahms' final powerful symphonic statement. Here, Brahms takes flight, as he melds the soaring sounds of Romanticism to classical structure in a ...

Both individually renowned for their powerful interpretations of Wagner's operas, Lisa Gasteen and Asher Fisch collaborate with the MSO in a survey of some of ...

Lush, evocative, deeply moving - The Cinematic Orchestra is here to play the movie soundtrack to your life....

Anh Do's bestselling book The Happiest Refugee has made readers laugh and cry, and was described by Russell Crowe as "the most surprising and inspiring ...

These high definition screenings will be brought to life by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Associate Conductor Benjamin Northey, performing some of ...

Bringing together over 110 of Australia’s finest classical musicians representing over 47 of the world’s greatest orchestras including our wonderful local orchestras, to provide a ...

This absorbing musical journey through Beethoven’s heroic decade culminates in his mighty Emperor concerto, featuring one of the leading pianists of our time....

Accompanied by David Cameron on the piano, David will perform a repertoire from classical favourites to contemporary hits. Winning numerous awards including Operatic Performer of ...

German cabaret legend Ute Lemper, famed for wowing audiences with her captivating interpretation of works by Kurt Weill, Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf, returns to ...

This program is made all the more unmissable by the inclusion of Mozart’s regal concerto....

This panorama of human hopes and fears features an outstanding international cast conducted by Sir Andrew Davis....

Adams conducts the Australian premiere of his jazz-based meditation on the Los Angeles of The Big Sleep and Double Indemnity, City Noir....

Every year, the Cercle du Grand The?a?tre and the Grand The?a?tre de Gene?ve organise a unique recital evening featuring some of the greatest opera voices ...

It was a landmark in the history of modern music and the birth of a masterpiece, or The Rite of Spring sounds as blazingly alive ...

...Stravinsky said of the work that would become one of his greatest successes, the ballet of the puppet-with-a-soul and his fantastic adventures, rendered in vivid ...

Stravinsky’s affection for Tchaikovsky’s music is made manifest throughout the Festival; in this opening program, the sublime Latvian violinist Baiba Skride is soloist in one ...

Internationally renowned violinist Joshua Bell performs Tchaikovsky’s exquisite Violin Concerto. Bell calls the piece “the most intimate, elegant, almost balletic warhorse I know!” His talents ...

In this rare MSO appearance, Simone Young also conducts the Australian premiere of Brett Dean’s new work, based on the life and teachings of Socrates....

A free spirit who approaches music with an unquenchable sense of fun and discovery, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a joy to play with and watch. ...

To celebrate his bicentenary, the MSO presents an orchestral passion on Wagner’s masterpiece of love and death, Tristan and Isolde....

Here this deeply human masterwork comes to life under one its greatest interpreters. Rachmaninov’s Concerto has all the poetry and melodic beauty audiences love in ...

ACO2, the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s precocious little sister, brings together Australia’s finest young string players and ACO musicians, creating a combined ensemble with a fresh, ...

From the soulful Prelude to Mussorgsky’s opera to the gleaming conclusion of Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy, this journey through the world of Russian music is ...

Anh Do’s bestselling book The Happiest Refugee has made readers laugh and cry, and was described by Russell Crowe as “the most surprising and inspiring ...

Appalachian Spring defines the American spirit in music, and includes Copland’s sublime setting of the Shaker theme Simple Gifts. Stravinsky’s suite from The Firebird is ...

This masterwork is contrasted here with a beautifully crafted tribute to Bach’s genius, in which radiant young American pianist Simone Dinnerstein pairs his keyboard concertos ...

Transgressive cabaret sensation Meow Meow joins us for the racier numbers, including a duet with Humphries. An aficionado of the art and music of this ...

Don’t miss one of the world’s great conductors, Sir Andrew Davis, direct Richard Strauss’ orchestral masterpiece....

With a wonderful selection of music by the world’s most celebrated composers including Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Mozart, and Johann Strauss, Novaya Opera will take you on ...

This thrilling journey through musical tempests – of the man-made kind (as in Britten’s song cycle Our Hunting Fathers) or the or the kind that ...

Music by another supreme melodist, Tchaikovsky, opens and closes the program: the colour and spectacle of the 1812 Overture, and the turbulent passion of the ...

Witness this unique clash of cultures as Red Bull Flying Bach hits Australian shores for the first time. Watch Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier come ...

The magisterial Prelude to Wagner’s only comedy precedes the powerful melodies and pulsating rhythms of Bartók’s showpiece....

n May, when the surf is at its best, Richard Tognetti took a crew of surfers, musicians and film makers to Ningaloo Reef, where the ...

Having performed at the Royal Opera House in London, the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Lisa makes her triumphant return ...

A collective of pure talent; BLAZE is the show that brings the raw energy of street and break dance together with some of the most ...

Following the success of Christine Walsh’s production of The Sleeping Beauty in 2008, The Australian Conservatoire of Ballet is proud to once again present this ...

Beethoven's famous Symphony No.9, Ode to Joy, requires the biggest orchestra the ACO has ever assembled, plus one of the best British choirs and a ...