Digital Programs

Right now, Queensland Theatre’s Education team would have been be rolling out over 100 different workshops across Queensland, taking some of the best teaching artists into classrooms.

In a first for arts education in Victoria, VCE Theatre Studies will be available online in 2020, and VCE Drama in 2021, thanks to a partnership between Melbourne Theatre Company and Virtual School Victoria (VSV).

Released on United Nations World Environment Day, Wednesday June 5, ABC Classic presents The Environmental Symphony, an ambitious and epic work that spans five billion years, from the formation of the planet through to the devastation of our current age.

In a world first, Opera Australia, in partnership with the Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council, announced it will stage one of its most ambitious projects to date, a brand new, fully digital production of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, in November 2020.

Victorian Opera’s Access All Areas: Livestream Program is revolutionising arts education using online technology, and has given 1,400 primary school students state-wide their first taste of opera.

​Over 650,000 school students across Australia will come together In November to sing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO).

World Ballet Day returns on Thursday 5 October 2017 with 22 hours of live, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from five of the world’s leading ballet companies.

The Digital Theatre release of Andrew Bovell’s critically acclaimed Things I Know To Be True which was co-produced with award-winning UK theatrical innovators, Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company SA slated for 22 Feb.

Bell's Education app- Starting Shakespeare received the ATOM 2016 Award for Best Education App (Primary/Secondary).

The Australian Ballet is delivering a series of ballet productions to cinema audiences for the first time.

On October 4, the third annual World Ballet Day LIVE will give dancers and dance lovers across the globe the opportunity to see what goes on behind the scenes.

Bangarra projects EORA -VIVID Sydney, illuminating the southern pylon of the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge with EORA – The land.

Sydney Dance Company's virtual reality experience Stuck In The Middle With You will feature at the Sydney Film Festival's Down the Rabbit Hole – Virtual Reality at the Hub in June.

As Opera Australia prepares to open its fifth Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour with Turandot on 24 March, it is also busy finalising its event cinema deals around the world.

A personal recollection by Simon Rogers, Manager of Artistic Planning, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, on how the orchestra went about developing a new recording for the Hush Foundation in a collaboration that extended its reach and forged new partnerships.

Queensland Symphony Orchestra has joined Foxtel Arts as its 2016 season broadcast partner—and is the first Australian orchestra to partner with Foxtel.

Bangarra's first feature film, Spear, screened in the Discovery Programme at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Opera Australia’s production of Aida on Sydney Harbour will have a cinema release from 29 August around the country, for up to three nights.

This week people in Adelaide will be able to experience what it’s like to be on stage with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra during a concert performance.

Filming commences this month on The Divorce—an opera written specifically for the screen, rethinking the operatic art form for a contemporary film and television audience.

Musica Viva have launched The Musica Viva Storybook website, an ongoing resource that has been curated to celebrate the company’s 70th anniversary.

​A play that was born in the Downstairs theatre at Belvoir and reshaped for Upstairs, is now a film, set to open the Sydney Film Festival on 3 June. Brendan Cowell’s quintessential Ruben Guthrie is on the move.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra has announced a new partnership with worldwide music streaming service, Spotify.

‘The simulcast was a whole new frontier for theatrical experience … we were undaunted as an audience and gripped by the power of ‘almost’ live theatre.’ So said Bundaberg North State High School, Judith Thrupp, following Queensland Theatre Company’s simulcast of Black Diggers to nine venues around the state in October.

The Australian Ballet will lead off the newly announced World Ballet Day on 1 October 2014 with five of the world’s leading ballet companies collaborating in a 20-hour live streaming event.

On 18 September more than 250 cinemas across the UK and Ireland will screen Opera Australia’s open-air version of Madama Butterfly from its Handa Opera production on Sydney Harbour in March this year.

Musica Viva In Schools' interactive whiteboard and digital learning resources were included in The Guardian's list of ten global R&D projects that are changing arts and culture.

Musica Viva might be Australia's oldest independent professional performing arts organisation but it’s totally on top of social media.

How does a performing arts company preserve its live performances for the enjoyment and education of future generations?

​Digital programs provide more opportunities for deeper audience engagement. AMPAG companies have embraced digital technology.