ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE HAMER HALL

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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....

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 ...