Limelight

Osmo Vänskä on Mahler's endgame

The Finnish maestro on interpreting music when there are more questions than answers.

Swan Lake/Loch na hEala (Teaċ Daṁsa)

A Swan Lake set in Ireland that is tough yet beguilingly poetic.

So how do you play an instrument without touching it?

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Rautavaara (Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Festival)

Benjamin Northey is expressive and authoritative in superb performances of works by the Finnish master.

Re-inventing Renaissance man

From science to surgery by way of a treatise on cheating, Mary Finsterer’s new opera runs one man’s extraordinary gamut.