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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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/53990931741_bd4c7b66c9_k.jpg?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/20230919BiteClub2ndServe-somefx01061.jpg?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Diana-Gomez_Image_4368_V1-e1726639255630.jpg?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/umberto-Jez-Smith.webp?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/pexels-ketut-subiyanto-4132378.jpg?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/MZAZA-Main-Hero-Photo-By-Jacques-Maudy1.jpg?w=310)
Music review: Mzaza: The Birth and Death of Stars, Riverside TheatresÂ
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/JPGFFS4-GenevieveGirling.jpg?w=310)
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.'](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/Nicole-Cleary-401.jpg?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/Jessica-Cottis_crMartinOllman-1.jpg?w=310)
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…
![A concert scene. Audience on the left, stage on the right. The lighting is red.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SoftCentre_NoworNever_Edited-85-11.jpg?w=310)
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…