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Gluck's 'Orpheus & Eurydice' will be staged in Melbourne in 2025. Pictured is the Opera Australia Chorus and Circa in Opera Australia's 2024 production of 'Orpheus & Eurydice'. Four male circus performers, shirtless and wearing vivid red skirts, swing and tumble on a stark white stage, as formally-clad opera chorus members sing behind them.
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ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the season announcements you may have missed.

A woman, Sahara Beck, wearing a white and black outfit is standing with a microphone. A drag queen in a black leotard, is standing beside her, back to back.
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Performance review: Bite Club: 2nd Serve, Arts Centre Melbourne

The Brief's Factory troupe returns to entertain and scandalise with their circus tricks.

Venezuelan-born male soprano Samuel Mariño opens the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's 2025 season. Wearing a green velvet waistcoat, a pale pink shirt and a cravat, Mariño - who has light brown skin, dark eyes and curly black hair - parts a pair of white lace curtains and gently smiles at the camera.
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Going for baroque in 2025: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra celebrates its 35th anniversary

From Handel and Bach to new collaborations and commissions, the Brandenburg’s 2025 season promises to excite and delight.

Black and white photo of QSO Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici waving his conductor baton. The swirls are depicted in yelllow.
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QSO’s 2025 Season – something bigger than just our everyday life

Queensland Symphony Orchestra presents its 2025 season of aural as well as visual delights.

two young women playing a guitar.
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Women leading the return of the guitar’s popularity

After declining guitar sales for over a decade, a turnaround is in sight, led by women and festivals like the…

Mzaza's six musicians (and their instruments) stand in front of a large circular structure.
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Music review: Mzaza: The Birth and Death of Stars, Riverside Theatres 

Mzaza’s current Australian tour sees the world music favourites deliver a powerful concert experience with strong theatrical elements.

A scene from 'Jean Paul Gaultier's Fashion Freak Show' at Brisbane Festival, featuring an array of performers dressed in colourful designs posing on a catwalk, surrounded by seated audience members.
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Festival review: Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show, South Bank Piazza

This semi-autobiographical stage show exploring the French fashion designer’s life and career is visually splendid but, ironically, lacking in theatrical…

A group of dancers, all in black, the women in stockings and the men in trousers, all holding top hats in the air, in the production of 'A Chorus Line.'
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Musical Review: A Chorus Line, National Theatre

A new remount of a classic musical that still holds up well.

Jessica Cottis, a fair-skinned woman with long dark hair tied back behind her head, conducts the Canberra Symphony Orchestra. She wears a black jacket over a white shirt, and holds a white baton in her raised right hand.
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Celebrating connection and story: Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s 75th anniversary season

Jessica Cottis, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the CSO, discusses her 2025 season and the importance of commissioning new…

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Music review: Soft Centre: Supermodel Late Night, Now or Never Festival, Trades Hall

A choose-your-own-adventure reeling through some of the most exciting experimental artists, but logistical constraints frustratingly made it almost impossible to…

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