Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelung is spectacular and deeply moving. Watching a great production of this masterpiece is a...
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From leading dance and Broadway musicals to grand opera productions the State Theatre offers the complete theatrical experience.
It seats 2,085 and has one of the largest stages in the world. Theatrical highlights include performances by Opera Australia and The Australian Ballet. Don’t forget to look up at the amazing ceiling, which is decorated with 75,000 tiny brass domes.
Graeme Murphy’s grand vision of the evergreen Swan Lake returns for an exclusive Melbourne-only season Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake updates the romance of...
Ever wondered what a day in the life of a dancer of The Australian Ballet is like? This event is your chance to find out. Hosted by former Principal...
The award winning director Gale Edwards directs this jewel of American musical theatre.Gypsy was inspired by the memoirs of the famous burlesque dancer...
Following their sell-out season of Opus Cactus in 2003, Momix returns with Botanica, the perfect show for the whole family. Beautiful and enthralling,...
Inspired by Hansel and Gretel, .h.g. is an extraordinary re-telling of the chilling fairytale for an audience of one (or two, if they would rather not...
Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music returns to Arts Centre Melbourne in August for three BIG shows including a family friendly Saturday matinee!This is a...
One of the great musical romances, Singin' in the Rain is set in Hollywood in the last days of the silent screen era. Rohan Browne stars as the matinee...
The first and last great Romantic ballets on one double bill – the fairytale La Sylphide and the glittering party piece Paquita In 1836, La Sylphide...
One of The Australian Ballet’s most popular events, Introduction to the ballet is ideal for newcomers to ballet and regular ballet attendees alike. You’ll...
Alexei Ratmansky, the world’s most in-demand classical choreographer, creates a brand-new Cinderella for The Australian Ballet Cinders is getting a...
Contemporary ballet at its spectacular best, with landmark works from George Balanchine, Jirí Kylián and Wayne McGregor. Each of the choreographers on...
If ever there were a 19th-century opera to have stood the test of time it is Verdi’s soaringly romantic and dramatic Aida. Its exotic, golden images of...
Women fighting duels, wearing pants and winning wars. It’s all part of Handel’s sensual and crazy scheme of desire, passion, parody and intrigue in which...
Prepare to be amazed by a breathtaking new production by La Fura dels Baus, the ingenious company that has staged a powerful version of Berlioz’s The...
Bonnie Raitt is more than a best-selling artist, respected guitarist, expressive singer and accomplished songwriter….Bonnie Raitt has become an...
A bravura classic for the whole family, featuring spectacular dancing, much high-jinks, and ballet’s funniest happy ending. Don Quixote is on a quest: to...
“The theatre event of the decade.” - Sunday Times (UK)War Horse, one of the most sought-after stage shows of the current era, is coming to Arts Centre...
A night to celebrate Victorian Opera in Arts Centre Melbourne’s newly re-opened Hamer Hall. Don’t miss your chance to celebrate seven glorious years of...
Celebrate the festive season with popular and traditional Christmas songs, and a few laughs along the way at our last Morning Melodies show of the year....
Handel’s Messiah is packed with great tunes and inspiring moments – that’s why it’s been loved by audiences for centuries. For this presentation, the MSO...
Opera Australia presents Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, in a new co-production with Houston Grand Opera and Teatro La Fenice. Bel canto songbird Emma...
Sexy. Subversive. The ultimate femme fatale. Like an earthy spirit of decadence, her song blows the civilised sensibilities of the world apart. Richard...
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is one of the world’s favourite operas, and this is one of Opera Australia’s most celebrated productions. It returns to...
A program of pure musical beauty, bringing together two great international artists. Ian Bostridge and Bernard Labadie, united by their shared sensibility...
The Melbourne Welsh Male Choir’s booming baritones, beautiful harmonies and tender moments will fill Hamer Hall in this spine tingling concert featuring...
A celebration in words and music of the world’s favourite love story. John Bell is joined by members of Bell Shakespeare and the MSO for this unique...
The spirit of O Brother Where Art Thou? comes to Perth, with a fabulous Bluegrass line-up, featuring the man behind the music, international star and...
Catch the steepest and deepest in high-adrenalin outdoor sport films when the 2012 Radical Reels Tour comes to Perth this October. Hurtle down steep...
We all know that factories make really handy things that we use in our everyday lives, BUT there are always bits and pieces left over from the production...
Based on the much loved picture book character created by Ted Prior, the hugely popular Grug is brought to life for this magical stage production for very...
If your mind were a room and your life's memories lost in a jumble of old boxes, what forgotten treasures might you find? Inhabiting a world where mops...
The suave songs of the Rat Pack era take centre stage in this concert with Kane Alexander, one of Australia’s most charismatic musical theatre performers,...
Set in Manhattan in the ‘60s, Promises, Promises stars Australia’s favourite leading lady, Marina Prior (Mary Poppins, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) as Fran...
Experience a celebration of the forthcoming release of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Part One of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The...
Get Dancing! is a fun school holiday program designed for children with no dance experience and presented by The Australian Ballet’s Dance Education...
Swan Lake is one of the world’s most beloved ballets. In this workshop you’ll learn selected sections of the corps de ballet choreography from Swan Lake...
Swan Lake, the world’s most beloved ballet returns to its roots in the hands of Resident Choreographer Stephen Baynes and The Australian Ballet's Artistic...
In an Asian-Australian music fusion, Japan’s acclaimed taiko performing arts ensemble Kodo joins Australia’s own high-energy taiko musicians TaikOz in a...
Imagine music so beautiful, so powerful, that it could enchant even the King of the Underworld. In 1607, Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi brought this...
Tchaikovsky and Dvořák were born one year apart, and form a natural pairing, sharing an intense feeling for the uniqueness of their national identities....
Melbourne audiences always welcome return visits by pianist Stephen Hough, and dynamic American maestro Andrew Litton, too, is an MSO favourite....
Be transported back to the golden age of Broadway and Hollywood with Victorian Opera who will perform much–loved songs from the greatest stage and film...
The first concert features favourite operatic scenes and arias, including highlights from the company’s famed rendition of Porgy and Bess. The second...
If you’re passionate about a career in dance or interested in the path to becoming a professional dancer, don’t miss this forum. Artistic Director David...
Three iconic works that formed The Australian Ballet’s innovative reputation in contemporary dance are given fresh life by a new generation of stars....
This informative and entertaining program is a treat for newcomers to ballet and regular ballet attendees alike. The dancers of The Australian Ballet will...
One of the world’s underground music pioneers, renowned composer and DJ Nitin Sawhney will perform his own music together with an exciting line-up of...
Sir Andrew Davis leads a celebration of the music of Australia’s – and Melbourne’s – greatest composer, the fascinating and brilliant Percy Grainger. An...
Join us for this rare opportunity to hear one of the great orchestras of the world in two exclusive concerts for Arts Centre Melbourne. The concerts will...
With lyrics by Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar, The Lion King) and music by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Mamma Mia!), this highly acclaimed...
In Beethoven’s cheerful Pastoral symphony, a storm brings refreshment to the idyllic countryside. In the First Act of Richard Wagner’s opera Die Walküre,...
On a flight from Frankfurt to Montreal, a nameless young woman dies, leaving behind a wailing baby. And so begins the epic panorama linking nine lives and...
In the first concert in the refurbished Hamer Hall by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, former Chief Conductor Markus Stenz renews his happy...
Performing some of the most stirring, well–loved and sparkling overtures from opera, ballet and musical theatre, this concert with Orchestra Victoria...
The popular Discover Opera Series is a wonderful way to gain insight into Victorian Opera’s season and an opportunity to hear from guest artists. These...
Experience the three visionary films of Godfrey Reggio and in a rare opportunity hear the musical scores performed by their legendary composer Philip...
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...
Mel Brooks is pure comic genius. His musical The Producers is the story of Max Bialystock, a struggling Broadway producer and Leo Bloom, a stage-struck...
Opera diva Suzanne Johnston will take you on a fabulous musical journey, accompanied by a select group of young singers from the Melbourne Conservatorium...
Desire v Duty – Onegin is a dramatic story ballet staged at Arts Centre Melbourne’s State Theatre. John Cranko is a master of the story ballet and his...
The international ice dance sensation The Imperial Ice Stars make a triumphant return to Australia next winter with a dazzling new production of The...
Leading dancers and companies from around Australia will gather at Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne and take to the stage for one spectacular dance event....
Kids will create a song using lots of cool music samples and then use the track to make a great music video. All kids will receive a DVD of their work....
Rasta Thomas’ Rock the Ballet' returns with its fusion of classic Ballet technique combined with the excitement of musical theatre, hip hop, martial arts,...
Having performed over 1000 shows during sell out seasons across the globe since its inception in 2007, Rasta Thomas’ Rock the Ballet returns to Australia...
Go behind the scenes at Arts Centre Melbourne with Arena Theatre Company to learn more about their science fiction fantasy show, Starchaser. Together with...
An intergalactic search for answers comes to Arts Centre Melbourne in the fantasy theatre show, Starchaser. Catta and Tommy are left all alone when their...
One of our most popular shows, The Australian Ballet School return in 2012 to showcase the talent of the next generation of highly gifted young dancers in...
In 1998, young gay student, Mathew Shepard, was brutally bashed and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. This shocking hate...
Meet Figaro, one of the handiest chaps in town. He’ll carry your bags, he’ll trim your hair. Why, he’ll even arrange your marriage! Elijah Moshinsky’s...
Welcome to a world where animals dance and children fly. Where princes battle dragons and hope battles despair. To a world where ideas matter, and music...
The mythical Princess Turandot rules her people with an iron fist and a heart of ice. Can Prince Calaf melt her heart, when so many have failed? And what...
A choose your own adventure story with 24 different endings comes to the Arts Centre Melbourne. No two shows of Escape from Peligro Island are the same!...
Opera, musical theatre and Morning Melodies favourites, Stuart Maunder and Anne-Maree McDonald cordially invite you to a marvellous party where they’ll...
Formidable coach Bev and the under-21 team from the Hyatt Park Rangers are gearing up for the big game against their long-time rivals. But who is playing...
Step back to a time of tea dresses and lounge suits for one of the most luxurious afternoons you will have this summer. Upon arrival you’ll receive a...
Is there a thread between the frenetic tempo of gypsy and punk rock? Melbourne’s Baron’s of Tang and Sydney’s Crooked Fiddle Band will prove it with their...
Join Victorian Youth Opera and classical Turkish group Nefes Ensemble in an exciting collaboration at the State Library of Victoria. The medieval miracle...
Totally spontaneous, totally improvised and totally hilarious! Random Musical, part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival during the school...
A unique showcase of singer songwriters featuring musicians from Australia, East Timor, the Pacific and beyond. From heartening stories of the land to...
Thirty years is a long time to stay away, so Danny Maloney is nervous about facing his formidable father Brian again. Danny is a Vietnam vet; Brian is...
Get ready to dance, sing and join in an old-style Jewish party in KlezKids with a live klezmer band and dance caller at Arts Centre Melbourne. The London...
Victorian Opera’s annual community sing-along is one of the popular highlights of the year, giving audiences the opportunity to take a turn in the...
From Melbourne, Flap! play original music that is both old and new, inspired by 1920s jazz, Gypsy brass, English folk and Trinidadian Calypso. The London...
The legendary film and theatre music star and two-time Grammy Award Winner Petula Clark returns to Arts Centre Melbourne as part of her Australian Tour....
Celebrating the songs made famous by the sassy female musicians of the late 60s and early 70s, Nichaud Fitzgibbon, Jane Clifton and Ali McGregor will...
Welcome to the wonderful world of Le Gateau Chocolat – the outrageous, larger-than-life operatic diva with a penchant for lycra … and an exquisite...
What a massive year for Dave Graney. Spreading and speaking the word via his published memoir 1001 Australian Nights, co-hosting a weekly radio show:...
Take Flight with Makedo is a workshop at Arts Centre Melbourne where kids and grown-ups will make things that fly. We’ll use cardboard, plastic and fabric...
Archer is an enigmatic blues man from the country who defies explanation but captivates hearts and minds with his guitar and voice. When you have had your...
Dress to impress, dance until the wee hours or sit back and watch the wild antics as you devour a delicious supper in your own booth* or at your own table.
If you know anything at all about Australian music, of course, you already know who Adalita is. You know her from Magic Dirt, who for nearly two decades...
Reaching to musical depths far beyond his years and a way with the guitar that can only be seen to be believed, Daniel Champagne often sounds closer to a...
With her five-piece band and personal ‘towel-boy’, Josie Lane will shower you with laughs, tears and blushes as she taps the bawdy energy of Bette...
Western Australian soulstress Mama Kin is a force to be reckoned with. Part raconteur and all-out entertainer, Mama Kin’s unique blend of New Orleans...
Steamtolling into 2012 on the back of regional tours, capital city showstoppers and the pick of the summer festivals, the Cash Savage bandwagon has shown...
The Toots' live shows are a haphazard spectacle filled with sweat, glitter and trumpets. A garage, country, big band bonanza whose songs tell ol' tales of...
To celebrate the National Ballet of China’s performances of The Peony Pavilion at Arts Centre Melbourne in March, this workshop will share some of the...
Karbido’s The Table is a world-class musical project, an out-and-out instrumental avant-garde performance that proves that an unlimited imagination poses...
Celebrating the Year of Chinese Culture in Australia, The Peony Pavilion by the National Ballet of China with the National Ballet of China Symphony...
Labourer’s Love, "Laogong Zhi Aiqing" (1922), was produced in Shanghai, China and is also known as Romance of a Fruit Peddler (Zhi Guo Yuan). It...
Compered by Annette Shun Wah, actor, writer, producer and presenter of TV shows such as The Noise, Studio 22 and Media Dimensions, The Shanghai Club will...
First Aid Kit's profile has grown in leaps and bounds, from recording a single of Buffy Sainte-Marie's Universal Soldier with Jack White to extensive US...
Welcome to the Paul Capsis Revue! Back from his fabulous sell-out 2011 Famous Spiegeltent Season, award-winning star of stage and screen, Paul Capsis...
Five-time Grammy nominee, trumpeter Chris Botti is one of America’s highest selling jazz instrumentalists, with four No.1 albums, three gold records and...
The world of ballet can be dangerous. Between pink pointe shoes, tutus and tulle lies the brutal truth that people would actually kill for a role. Based...
The Tiger and Me are architects of sing-along good times, dark-edged pop-leaning folk and side-leering swagger. Their feverish live shows wring the full...
Internationally renowned for his career with The Birthday Party and Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, plus his soundtrack and production work, Mick Harvey will...
For this landmark celebration, Graeme Murphy offers an emotional new work exploring the extremes of excess and drought, and light and shadow. Murphy’s...
The vegetable patch comes to life in this workshop as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival where we’ll animate vegies through songs, stories,...
Time Out London Critics Choice and Green Room Award winners Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen celebrate their tenth anniversary with a show...
Two unique ensembles influenced by jazz and music from around the world. Mimi Zaetta-Thomas is a performer with a passion for flamenco, Brazilian, French...
Dickens’ Women brings to life twenty-three of Charles Dickens’ most affecting and colourful female (and male!) characters. Margolyes presents her...
My Friend The Chocolate Cake are an acclaimed live band with an imaginative and intensely colourful world and music. Singer/songwriter and pianist David...
The Opera Burlesque was formed inside The Famous Spiegeltent in 2005. Since then Ali McGregor, Dimity Shepherd and Antoinette Halloran have gone on to...
Earlier this year, Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, Ed Kuepper reunited with former sparring partner drummer Mark Dawson to re-imagine the...
A holiday-turned-extended stint in the US proved very fruitful for Melbourne’s Jordie Lane, who returned home to Australia with a brand new unexpected...
In the mid-80s following the success of his first band, Jo Jo Zep and The Falcons, Joe Camilleri gathered together a group of musician friends and dubbed...
At the height of the Cold War, a small Kingdom in South East Asia was dancing to a new beat - music inspired by the British Invasion bands as well as GI...
Last year was significant for our most inimitable female singer songwriter, Clare Bowditch, who was crowned Rolling Stone Magazine’s "Woman of the Year...
He Drank Too Many Cigarettes celebrates the genius of the iconic legend and famous French bad boy provocateur Serge Gainsbourg. Gainsbourg was a highly...
We meet a girl who keeps secrets safe between two pieces of cardboard, a mother who sews garments lined with love, and a giant egg that takes forever to...
In a career spanning four decades and 24th album on the way, Renée Geyer refuses to rest on her laurels. Having started out a sensual blues belter, Renée...
Haunting melodies, shimmering organ lines and one powerful voice, Sophia Brous' music is an uncompromising vision for pop. Her band comprises gifted...
Since their self-titled first album became a top 20 bestseller upon its release in 2003, Melbourne-based guitarist Stephen Magnusson, a major solo...
Years, they pass like night buses in the rain. Comes a time when you need to face the awful ding of the truth bell. Ding! You got old, troubadour. A...
The rest of the year promises to be filled with his usual diet of soundtracks, production work and co-writing as well as a September spectacular with the...
All the ingredients of his first album 1642-1727, released in 2000, still suffuse his music today – the elegant , sparse guitar, the gentle, melancholy...
David Chesworth Ensemble’s music has seductively simple surfaces, but the ironically loaded soundscapes reveal unnerving interiors that are sensuous,...
A Fine Romance celebrates the classic love songs of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Remembering artists such as Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Vic...
La Vie is about insanity, sorrow, bad behaviour, pain, airplane accidents and romantic love gone terribly wrong – but it’s funny, joyful, and very sexy....
Two friends look after the birds and make sure the eggs stay safe. They watch, they help, their world is bright, ordered and, most importantly, white! But...
What better way to spend the most romantic week of the year than snuggling into a Spiegel booth for Simon Palomares’ authentic tango outfit El Boliche....
For sixteen summers, Roo and Barney have spent their long layoff from the cane-cutting season down in Melbourne having a high old time with two Carlton...
This band brings the sound of the Golden Age of Bollywood back to the future, where it belongs. The cinema of 1960s and 1970s India was a riot of...
Hailing from the backstreets of Sydney, The Snowdroppers are a four-man punk-soul-gutter-Blues tour de force. Blistering live shows and a love of the...
Together with members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, kids and their families will create an original piece of music using different instruments....
Learning lessons about good behaviour has never been so absurd and amusing all at the same time. Arena Theatre Company team with the absurd imagination of...
America! The land of hope, opportunity, and DreamSong. Pastor Richard Sunday is in trouble. His Evangelical Megachurch, DreamSong, has lost millions in...
In your eyes I see pieces of broken glass, made in the city and broken by sadness....go into the desert. Your soul is there. Meet Jim, a young indigenous...
In this one-woman show, singer and actress, Bernadette Robinson plays five ordinary women and five iconic singers, Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie...
This magical production features the Royal New Zealand Ballet dancers performing to a recorded arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s music. With choreography...
Kid Cudi will be joined by Detroit superstars D12 and Obie Trice which fans are eager to see after the historical EMINEM shows. Fans in attendance will...
Like an oversized peg–board, children and families create a landscape together tangling and weaving coloured elastic through tall poles. Imagine a three...
Siblings in Sync is an award winning program having recently won the Victorian Government Arts Portfolio Leadership Award in 2011 for Leadership in...
On day one at NGV International, they will explore the NGV’s sculptures and Ranjani Shettar’s Dewdrops and Sunshine exhibition. Then, with guidance from...
For more than four decades, Ladysmith Black Mambazo have married the intricate rhythms and harmonies of their native South African musical traditions to...
Janet Jackson is returning to the United States immediately.After private discussions with her family regarding her late brother Michael Jackson, it...
OverviewOne of the world's most breathtaking musical talents Toumani Diabaté is coming to Australia this October for the Melbourne Festival, performing...
the Production Company’s new staging of the classic Broadway musical, Kismet is now in rehearsals for a season in the State theatre opening on August 17....
MELBOURNE COMES ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC..... The hugely popular Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music returns to the Arts Centre on Friday 12 & Saturday 12...
The Beatles Back2Back has been painstakingly arranged by the same musical production team that filled theatres around Australia with The White Album...
"One of the most venerated songwriters of his generation." - USA Today Randy Newman is one of the great American songwriters. Tunesmiths like Paul Simon,...
“Fiery fusion is kindled by the flame of genius! Fantastico!” Daily Express, London “Dance and music making this good are rare. His London fans have been...
Cole Porter’s score for Anything Goes is one of the most glorious in the history of the American Musical Theatre. I Get a Kick Out of You, Anything Goes,...
“When people say they don’t ‘get’ contemporary dance perhaps they should try NDT” - The Independent After a 14 year absence, the stratospheric talents of...
In a rare collaboration, iconic Australian singer/songwriter, Paul Kelly, teams up with internationally renowned jazz musician Paul Grabowsky, to create...
For one night only nine amazing musicians come together to play some of the greatest songs ever written with state-of-the-art lighting, sound and staging,...
Michael Feinstein, the multi-platinum-selling, five-time Grammy-nominated American entertainer is touring Australia this July performing the classics...
Following a sell-out International smash hit tour, The Bar at Buena Vista - The Grandfathers of Cuban Music, are set to have people dancing in the aisle...
Internationally acclaimed choreographer Graeme Murphy joins forces with celebrated composer/percussionist Michael Askill in Suite Synergy — a...
The internationally acclaimed Mulan is coming to Melbourne and Sydney in 2011 Following a six month tour of the US, the dazzling show for families will...
‘Sufjan Stevens isn't like most other pop stars. He's far, far better.' NME ‘One of this young century's most talented artists.' Prefix Magazine...
Billy Connolly has enjoyed a longstanding career as one of the world’s best-loved comedians. His live shows have been enthralling audiences around the...
Nancye Hayes directs a new spectacular concert version of The Boy From Oz, the musical celebration of the life and work of the legendary Peter Allen....
For more than four decades, Engelbert Humperdinck has shared a legacy of love with fans of every age on every continent. On the eve of his soon to be...
“Brothers In Arms achieved phenomenal success for all the right reasons – musical ones. It stands as one of contemporary music’s shining high water...
Petula Clark has more gold albums to her credit than any other British artist, plus record sales well in excess of 30 million. This international film...
A one-off live performance by legendary rocker John Cale of his 1973 pop masterpiece Paris 1919 Legendary member of The Velvet Underground and acclaimed...
Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll! In the hands of the man described by The UK Independent as “one of the most exciting, even revolutionary, forces in British...
Los Van Van is recognised as one of the most important post-revolution Cuban bands. Los Van Van is led by Music Director and renowned drummer Samuel...
The world’s premier theatrical ice skating company, The Imperial Ice Stars, return to Australia this winter with a dynamic new interpretation of their...
From the home of tango, following sell-out seasons in New York, London, Barcelona, Shanghai and Capetown, the most acclaimed Tango Fire Company of Buenos...
Hotel Pro Forma’s striking imagery blends with Scandinavian electro-pop masters The Knife’s groundbreaking music to create a new species of electro dance...
The shortlisted nominees for the 2010 Australian Dance Awards were announced recently with the Australian Ballet, Bangarra Dance Company and Sydney Dance...