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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers’ Showcase

by Julie McErlain 26th January, 2026

by Julie McErlain 26th January, 2026

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				2 events 1 2 events, 1 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm 2026 Chamber Music Festival – The Crossing Machine performs The Juliet Letters by Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet May 1 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm 2026 Chamber Music Festival – The Crossing Machine performs The Juliet Letters by Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet Melbourne string quartet The Crossing Machine (violinists Marianne Rothschild and Matthew Rigby, violist Margaret Butcher and cellist Charlotte Jacke) will be… $32 – $42, 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Tempo Rubato: Slava Grigoryan & Al Slavik: ‘And so, it turns’ May 1 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Tempo Rubato: Slava Grigoryan & Al Slavik: ‘And so, it turns’ Australian guitarist Slava Grigoryan and Austrian bassist Al Slavik re-unite for an Australian tour celebrating the release of their 3rd album… $50	4 events 2 4 events, 2 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Royal Melbourne Philharmonic: Handel’s “Acis & Galatea” May 2 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Royal Melbourne Philharmonic: Handel’s “Acis & Galatea” Featuring an English text by John Gay, George Frideric Handel’s “Acis & Galatea” has been variously described as a serenata, a… $30.00 – $85.00, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Choristry – A Tapestry of Voices May 2 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Choristry – A Tapestry of Voices Choristry welcomes you to our first concert series of 2026! Join Choristry as we step into a rich soundscape weaving together…, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm 2026 Chamber Music Festival – Triptych of Shadows: Satie, Ullmann, Kouvaras May 2 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm 2026 Chamber Music Festival – Triptych of Shadows: Satie, Ullmann, Kouvaras Meditations on love, death, memory, and what remains Erik Satie’s luminous Socrate, performed by soprano Lily Flynn and pianist Coady Green, offers… $38 – $48, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven, Mozart & more! May 2 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven, Mozart & more! Are you ready for a whirlwind voyage through the history of Western music? Maybe you’ve never heard an orchestra, and you’re… $20 – $127	4 events 3 4 events, 3 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm The Rake Punished or Don Giovanni May 3 @ 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm The Rake Punished or Don Giovanni Melbourne Opera is staging a timely production of Don Giovanni (The Rake Punished) from 26 April - 3 May at the Athenaeum Theatre. This staging…, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Melbourne Opera: Don Giovanni May 3 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Melbourne Opera: Don Giovanni Don Giovanni is hailed as one of Mozart’s greatest and most demanding operas. Melbourne Opera has assembled a world class cast… $49 – $119, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Through Forest and Flame: Lieder and Love May 3 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Through Forest and Flame: Lieder and Love Experience a nineteenth-century world of musical fantasy in the historic ambience of the German Lutheran Church. In this first recital of…, 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm The Spooky Men’s Chorale – 25 Years of Pointless Grandeur May 3 @ 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm The Spooky Men’s Chorale – 25 Years of Pointless Grandeur ‘Stand back and admire the beautifully sung anarchy.’ – Daily Telegraph The Spooky Men’s Chorale is a magnificent, many-headed beast that has… $60 – $75
2 events 4 2 events, 4 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Melbourne Recital Centre & the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) Mostly Mozart – Mozart & the Bach sons May 4 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Melbourne Recital Centre & the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) Mostly Mozart – Mozart & the Bach sons When the Bachs met Mozart. In this Monday morning performance, take a deep dive into the Bach family tree and the… $49 – $59, 7:30 pm - 9:20 pm Melbourne Recital Centre: Leonkoro Quartet May 4 @ 7:30 pm - 9:20 pm Melbourne Recital Centre: Leonkoro Quartet Lion-hearted chamber revelation. Berlin's Leonkoro Quartet arrives with the fearless intensity their Esperanto name promises – 'lion-heart' – and a reputation… $49 – $139	1 event 5 1 event, 5 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Royal Melbourne Philharmonic: Handel’s “Acis & Galatea” May 5 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Royal Melbourne Philharmonic: Handel’s “Acis & Galatea” Featuring an English text by John Gay, George Frideric Handel’s “Acis & Galatea” has been variously described as a serenata, a… $30.00 – $85.00	1 event 6 1 event, 6 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Stewart Kelly Pianist and Music by the Springs Festival Springs in the City – Postcards from Ukraine May 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Stewart Kelly Pianist and Music by the Springs Festival Springs in the City – Postcards from Ukraine Music by the Springs presents Postcards from Ukraine Album Launch. A concert of virtuosic folk music from across the world, much… $30 – $79	2 events 7 2 events, 7 7:30 pm - 9:10 pm Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Overgrown Paths May 7 @ 7:30 pm - 9:10 pm Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Overgrown Paths MCO + Sophie Rowell. MCO Artistic Director and violinist Sophie Rowell leads a luminous fusion of music and poetry that culminates… $30 – $150, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Melbourne Symphony Orchestra presents An Evening of Opera: Verdi, Puccini, Rossini & more With Melbourne Youth Orchestra and Melba Opera Trust May 7 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Melbourne Symphony Orchestra presents An Evening of Opera: Verdi, Puccini, Rossini & more With Melbourne Youth Orchestra and Melba Opera Trust Experience the next generation of orchestral musicians. Musicians from the Melbourne Youth Orchestra join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and soloists from… $35	1 event 8 1 event, 8 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Opera Australia: La Traviata May 8 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Opera Australia: La Traviata “What should I do? Plunge into the vortex of pleasure and drown there?” – Violetta Violetta is a coveted courtesan, the… $40 – $295	2 events 9 2 events, 9 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Crowns and Coloratura: A Night in the Operatic Stratosphere May 9 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Crowns and Coloratura: A Night in the Operatic Stratosphere Join soprano Uma Dobia for a dazzling night of arias inspired by the QUEENS of opera. Uma is a versatile and… $60, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Opera Australia: La Traviata May 9 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Opera Australia: La Traviata “What should I do? Plunge into the vortex of pleasure and drown there?” – Violetta Violetta is a coveted courtesan, the… $40 – $295	1 event 10 1 event, 10 2:30 pm - 4:10 pm Melbourne Chamber: Orchestra Overgrown Paths May 10 @ 2:30 pm - 4:10 pm Melbourne Chamber: Orchestra Overgrown Paths MCO + Sophie Rowell. MCO Artistic Director and violinist Sophie Rowell leads a luminous fusion of music and poetry that culminates… $30 – $150
0 events 11 0 events, 11	1 event 12 1 event, 12 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Opera Australia: La Traviata May 12 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Opera Australia: La Traviata “What should I do? Plunge into the vortex of pleasure and drown there?” – Violetta Violetta is a coveted courtesan, the… $40 – $295	1 event 13 1 event, 13 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Opera Australia: La Traviata May 13 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Opera Australia: La Traviata “What should I do? Plunge into the vortex of pleasure and drown there?” – Violetta Violetta is a coveted courtesan, the… $40 – $295	0 events 14 0 events, 14	0 events 15 0 events, 15	2 events 16 2 events, 16 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm The Orchestra of U3A Hawthorn: FOUR SEASONS IN A DAY May 16 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm The Orchestra of U3A Hawthorn: FOUR SEASONS IN A DAY Concert 1, 2026 FOUR SEASONS IN A DAY 2.30pm 16 May 2026 St John's Anglican Church Burke Road, Camberwell Conductor: David… $10, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Victoria Chorale “Mozart Great Mass in C Minor” Concert May 16 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Victoria Chorale “Mozart Great Mass in C Minor” Concert Victoria Chorale Concert: Mozart’s “Great Mass in C Minor” Victoria Chorale presents the Great Mass in C Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus… $20 – $80	0 events 17 0 events, 17
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April 28

April 28 @ 7:30 am - 9:00 pm

fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival 2026: Brahms, Liszt & Mendelssohn – Hungarian Fire and Italian Light

April 29

April 29 @ 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm

The Rake Punished or Don Giovanni

April 29 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Melbourne Opera: Don Giovanni

April 30

April 30 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Sonorous XIII: Ros Bandt & Vijay Thillaimuthu

April 30 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

2026 Chamber Music Festival – Meta Cohen and Olivier Messiaen: Prophecy and Eternity

May 1

May 1 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

2026 Chamber Music Festival – The Crossing Machine performs The Juliet Letters by Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet

May 1 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Tempo Rubato: Slava Grigoryan & Al Slavik: ‘And so, it turns’

May 2

May 2 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Royal Melbourne Philharmonic: Handel’s “Acis & Galatea”

May 2 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Choristry – A Tapestry of Voices

May 2 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

2026 Chamber Music Festival – Triptych of Shadows: Satie, Ullmann, Kouvaras

May 2 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven, Mozart & more!

May 3

May 3 @ 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm

The Rake Punished or Don Giovanni

May 3 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Melbourne Opera: Don Giovanni

May 3 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Through Forest and Flame: Lieder and Love

May 3 @ 7:00 pm - 9:15 pm

The Spooky Men’s Chorale – 25 Years of Pointless Grandeur

May 4

May 4 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Melbourne Recital Centre & the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) Mostly Mozart – Mozart & the Bach sons

May 4 @ 7:30 pm - 9:20 pm

Melbourne Recital Centre: Leonkoro Quartet

May 5

May 5 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Royal Melbourne Philharmonic: Handel’s “Acis & Galatea”

May 6

May 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Stewart Kelly Pianist and Music by the Springs Festival Springs in the City – Postcards from Ukraine

May 7

May 7 @ 7:30 pm - 9:10 pm

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Overgrown Paths

May 7 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra presents An Evening of Opera: Verdi, Puccini, Rossini & more With Melbourne Youth Orchestra and Melba Opera Trust

May 8

May 8 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Opera Australia: La Traviata

May 9

May 9 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Crowns and Coloratura: A Night in the Operatic Stratosphere

May 9 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Opera Australia: La Traviata

May 10

May 10 @ 2:30 pm - 4:10 pm

Melbourne Chamber: Orchestra Overgrown Paths

May 12

May 12 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Opera Australia: La Traviata

May 13

May 13 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Opera Australia: La Traviata

May 16

May 16 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

The Orchestra of U3A Hawthorn: FOUR SEASONS IN A DAY

May 16 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Victoria Chorale “Mozart Great Mass in C Minor” Concert

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May 12

May 12 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Opera Australia: La Traviata

May 13

May 13 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Opera Australia: La Traviata

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May 16

May 16 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

The Orchestra of U3A Hawthorn: FOUR SEASONS IN A DAY

May 16 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Victoria Chorale “Mozart Great Mass in C Minor” Concert

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