Instrument: Circus ensemble

 Aaron Lifschitz directs contemporary circus artists, Circa in an exhilarating, ecstatic performance with the London Philharmonic to launch the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival. 

Yaron Lifschitz mesmerises from the opening tableaux’s row of candles in his Purcell staging for Opera Australia, featuring Circa, a Brisbane-based circus company. 

Olivia Fuchs solves the problems of Britten's thorny opera in a brilliant new production that hits the heights, featuring Mark Le Brocq as earthbound scholar, Gustav von Aschenbach.  

Man of the circus Yaron Lifschitz gives Orpheus and Euridice the Gesamtkunstwerk treatment in his involving production that arrives from Brisbane. 

Acrobats flying to the music of Vivaldi and his contemporaries makes for a surprising but highly entertaining combination in this energetic pastiche.

Keith Warner directs a new opera which packs in betrayal, murder, oppression, freedom, love and the Spanish Inquisition into a mere 90 minutes.

A colorful, light-hearted approach captures the spirit of Prokofiev's LʼAmour des trois oranges.