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Musica Viva Australia: Mozart’s Clarinets

by Nicholas Tolhurst 24th July, 2025

by Nicholas Tolhurst 24th July, 2025

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1 0 events, 1	2 1 event, 2 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice December 2 @ 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice Fall into an ecstatic dream…or is it a nightmare? Journey to the underworld and back. Gluck’s heartbreaking opera follows the grieving… $39 – $295	3 1 event, 3 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice December 3 @ 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice Fall into an ecstatic dream…or is it a nightmare? Journey to the underworld and back. Gluck’s heartbreaking opera follows the grieving… $39 – $295	4 1 event, 4 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice December 4 @ 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice Fall into an ecstatic dream…or is it a nightmare? Journey to the underworld and back. Gluck’s heartbreaking opera follows the grieving… $39 – $295	5 1 event, 5 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice December 5 @ 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice Fall into an ecstatic dream…or is it a nightmare? Journey to the underworld and back. Gluck’s heartbreaking opera follows the grieving… $39 – $295	6 5 events, 6 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Melbourne Bach Choir’s Christmas Fanfare 2025 December 6 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Melbourne Bach Choir’s Christmas Fanfare 2025 To round out a year of wonderful choral singing, Melbourne Bach Choir and Melbourne Bach Chamber Choir present a programme of… $10 – $50, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Noël! Noël! December 6 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Noël! Noël! Reflect and rejoice with ABO. As the collective heartbeat of festive excitement sweeps through the city streets, there is no better… $20 – $196, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Accelerando Recital 2025 December 6 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Accelerando Recital 2025 Our young Accelerando artists take their music to the next level. The Accelerando Program provides an opportunity for exceptional young artists… Free, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm A Choristry Christmas December 6 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm A Choristry Christmas Choristry’s final concert of 2025 celebrates the magic and mystery of Christmas through radiant choral music old and new. Featuring works… $35, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Noël! Noël! December 6 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Noël! Noël! Reflect and rejoice with ABO. As the collective heartbeat of festive excitement sweeps through the city streets, there is no better… $20 – $196	7 2 events, 7 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fitzroy Chamber Music Series: Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky – A Christmas Finale December 7 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fitzroy Chamber Music Series: Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky – A Christmas Finale A luminous finale to the 2025 season – sacred, sublime, and steeped in festive beauty. This unforgettable Christmas concert pairs the… $22 – $32, 5:00 pm - 7:45 pm Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah 2025 December 7 @ 5:00 pm - 7:45 pm Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah 2025 Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra present Handel’s Messiah for the world record 246th time since 1853. The RMP’s annual performance of… $30 – $95
8 0 events, 8	9 2 events, 9 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Team of Pianists: TAKE FOUR: EIGHT HANDS AT RIPPON LEA! December 9 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Team of Pianists: TAKE FOUR: EIGHT HANDS AT RIPPON LEA! Take Four: Eight Hands at Rippon Lea! - The Team's end-of-year celebration recital Celebrate the end of 2025 in the elegance… $65 – $85, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Tudor Choristers: Sing Nowell! 2025 December 9 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Tudor Choristers: Sing Nowell! 2025 Join us for an exquisite evening of choral music to illuminate your Christmas season … The Tudor Choristers present a unique… $32 – $40	10 0 events, 10	11 0 events, 11	12 0 events, 12	13 2 events, 13 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm VICTORIA CHORALE CHRISTMAS 2025 ‘O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM’ December 13 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm VICTORIA CHORALE CHRISTMAS 2025 ‘O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM’ BacdsnJoin Victoria Chorale for a Christmas tradition. This year we celebrate the mystery and wonder of Christmas with “O Magnum Mysterium”. … $70, 7:00 pm - 9:40 pm Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah December 13 @ 7:00 pm - 9:40 pm Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah Joy and wonder. From the exquisite ‘Comfort Ye’ to the majestic ‘Hallelujah Chorus’, Handel’s Messiah never fails to inspire. Whether it’s… $64.60 – $139	14 2 events, 14 5:00 pm - 7:40 pm Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah December 14 @ 5:00 pm - 7:40 pm Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah Joy and wonder. From the exquisite ‘Comfort Ye’ to the majestic ‘Hallelujah Chorus’, Handel’s Messiah never fails to inspire. Whether it’s… $64.60 – $139, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Astra Choir: Cosmic and Terrestrial Dialogues December 14 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Astra Choir: Cosmic and Terrestrial Dialogues DIALOGUES OF EARTH AND HEAVENS For millennia, experiences of earth-bound humans reached for the sky to express themselves. The vast celestial… $20 – $35
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December 2

December 2 @ 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm

Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice

December 3

December 3 @ 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm

Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice

December 4

December 4 @ 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm

Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice

December 5

December 5 @ 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm

Opera Australia: Orpheus & Eurydice

December 6

December 6 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Melbourne Bach Choir’s Christmas Fanfare 2025

December 6 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Noël! Noël!

December 6 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Accelerando Recital 2025

December 6 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

A Choristry Christmas

December 6 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Noël! Noël!

December 7

December 7 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Fitzroy Chamber Music Series: Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky – A Christmas Finale

December 7 @ 5:00 pm - 7:45 pm

Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah 2025

December 9

December 9 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Team of Pianists: TAKE FOUR: EIGHT HANDS AT RIPPON LEA!

December 9 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Tudor Choristers: Sing Nowell! 2025

December 6

December 6 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Melbourne Bach Choir’s Christmas Fanfare 2025

December 6 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Noël! Noël!

December 6 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Accelerando Recital 2025

December 6 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

A Choristry Christmas

December 6 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Noël! Noël!

December 7

December 7 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Fitzroy Chamber Music Series: Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky – A Christmas Finale

December 7 @ 5:00 pm - 7:45 pm

Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah 2025

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December 9

December 9 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Team of Pianists: TAKE FOUR: EIGHT HANDS AT RIPPON LEA!

December 9 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Tudor Choristers: Sing Nowell! 2025

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December 13

December 13 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

VICTORIA CHORALE CHRISTMAS 2025 ‘O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM’

December 13 @ 7:00 pm - 9:40 pm

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah

December 14

December 14 @ 5:00 pm - 7:40 pm

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah

December 14 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Astra Choir: Cosmic and Terrestrial Dialogues

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