A comprehensive guide to the performing arts in 2025; essential holiday listening; the must-see shows. Limelight is your ideal summer companion.

Essential holiday listening includes a Britten rarity, stunning recordings of Elgar and Tippett, a pair of oddball operas, and three outstanding discs of orchestral music by women.

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

Boy soprano turned bass-baritone Freddy Shaw named the next recipient of the Humanity Foundation Taryn Fiebig Scholarship.

Gabrielle Trainor to lead a deep-dive into the decision-making processes of the country's biggest arts organisation.

A splendid new recording of Gluck's opera in its anniversary year.

A comprehensive guide to the performing arts in 2025; essential holiday listening; the must-see shows. Limelight is your ideal summer companion.

A top-shelf cast ensues little is lost in a stripped-back staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's rollicking melodrama.

Tourniaire rescues a fin-de-siècle opera and its composer from obscurity.

Life, love, victory, and a simple man's search for meaning prevail in Rossini’s final opera.

Leoš Janáček’s quasi-operatic song-cycle makes for a satisfying hour of neatly focused, transportive performance.

In this concert, Brigette Heuser proves that mezzos can show pony just as much as the sopranos when given the opportunity to shine.