Mahler’s ‘Symphony of a thousand’ led by WA Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor Asher Fisch wows with power and woos with finesse at Perth Concert Hall.
David Cusworth
Documentary about En Coda’s innovative 2021 concert launches national tour at Luna Leederville.
Sacred and secular texts centre stage in Voyces’ Requiem with Paul Stanhope at WA Museum Boola Bardip’s Hackett Hall.
Lukas Vondracek revives partnership with WASO and Asher Fisch in a dazzling Liszt Piano Concerto No.1 at Perth Concert Hall on Friday.
Big on heart, hair and humour, Hairspray The Musical is musical theatre at its feel-good best, packed with a positive message, catchy tunes and oodles of laughs.
Tanya MacNaughton
WA Opera soprano Rachelle Durkin and Australian Baroque bring Un Bellissimo Fuoco (A Beuatiful Fire) to WA Museum Boola Bardip Hackett Hall.
WA Ballet’s season of Romeo & Juliet is a bold and spellbindingly contemporary re-telling of Shakespeare’s great tragic love story.
Seeing Black Swan State Theatre Company’s latest season of The Children a day after Australia records its hottest ever winter temperature is cold comfort in the face of this devastatingly compelling drama.
Mirabilis Collective grace the intimacy of UWA’s Callaway Auditorium with Glow, the latest in the all-female ensemble’s Illuminate series.
Breaksea’s Caretaker probes loss of self, identity and connection in stories, songs, dance and drama collated in the Great Southern region and reworked for the big city.
Undulating breath and bird calls announce Giovanni Consort’s Australian Sounds concert at Curtin and North Perth under conductor Nicholas Dinopoulos.
Karen Gomyo brings fire and ice to Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto with WASO and Asher Fisch at Perth Concert Hall.
WA Symphony Orchestra Chorus director Andrew Foote passes the baton to Hugh Lydon as they prepare for Mahler’s ‘Symphony of 1000’.
Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Death Of A Salesman has gripped audiences for generations and continues to do so with Anthony LaPaglia at the helm of this Australian production.
Artist Ian Daniell returns to Margaret River Open Studios 2024 for his fourth time on the annual event’s program, and first time displaying his life-size ocean artworks at his own art studio and gallery.
Freeze Frame Opera’s #MeToo-era take on Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Fremantle Prison postponed until November after injury to lead singer.
Perth Symphony Orchestra offers a fresh take on WA history with immersive musical and documentary presentations on three eminent West Australians of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Tasmania got to me with their clever-crafted slogan — ‘Come down for air. Be inspired.’
Andrew Miller
WASO associate concertmaster Riley Skevington brings Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto to Albany Entertainment Centre on August 30 and 31.
An interesting five years brings director Daniel Hyde and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, back to Perth.
Soprano Rachelle Durkin has an awesome August in store with two concerts and an opera to sing, commuting to Perth and Fremantle from her Busselton home.
Visual and vocal delights adorn the stage for WA Opera’s magical rendition of Dvorak’s Rusalka at His Majesty’s Theatre.
A stirring among strings led in Cygnus Arioso’s Winter Gala at Homes a Court Gallery on Sunday, four years after emerging in the vanguard from COVID lockdown.
Barely 24 hours after aceing the ABC Classics Top 100 broadcast on Saturday night, tenor Paul O’Neill stepped in last-minute for Grove Classics’ Sunday season closer at a Perth suburban library.