The Music Show
The Music Show
ABC Australia
Music Now & Then: Liza Lim
54 minutes Posted Jul 26, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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The latest in our Music Now & Then series with composer Liza Lim, who first appeared on The Music Show in its early years when she was in her mid twenties, where both her youth and the 'difficulty' of her music were remarked upon. 
As her opera The Oresteia is remounted by Sydney Chamber Opera and ELISION Ensemble, Andy speaks with Liza on stage about revisiting works and ideas over more than thirty years. 
The Oresteia is staged at Sydney's Carriageworks 24-31 July.
Music heard in the show:
Title: The Oresteia: The Furies; Positions of a memory theatre (Cassandra’s Dream Song); Athena’s Trumpet
Artists: Jeannie van de Velde, Julie Edwardson, Deborah Kayser, Andrew Muscat-Clark, Tyrone Landau, Grant Smith (singers), Elision Ensemble/Sandro Gorli
Composer: Lim, Liza
Album: Mother Tongue
Label: BR Klassik
Title: The Compass, II. – 
Artist: William Barton (digeridoo), Carin Levine (flute), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Christoph Poppen
Composer: Lim, Liza
Album: Musica Viva Vol. 47
Label: BR Klassik
Title: A Sutured World, IV. Simon Says. Alle Vögel fliegen hoch
Artist: Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner
Composer: Lim, Liza
Album: Musica Viva Vol. 47
Label: BR Klassik
The Music Show is made on Gadigal, Gundungurra and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country
Technical production by Harvey O’Sullivan, Mickey Grossman and Ann-Marie Debettencor