Simon Russell Beale is widely regarded as the finest stage actor of his generation. Ahead of The Death of Stalin, Steve Dow sat down with Beale to discuss his role as sinister NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria.
The French pianist's new Debussy disc is Limelight's Recording of the Month in April.
For the latest offering in her Norse and Celtic-inspired concerto series, Mary Finsterer is harnessing the power of viola and cello.
Ahead of its season opener, Bel a cappella's Anthony Pasquill discusses giving the Australian premiere of a work by Caroline Shaw.
The latest issue of Limelight Magazine, with maestro Riccardo Muti, Simon Russell Beale on The Death of Stalin and Greta Bradman, is now available for subscribers to read online.
The Orava Quartet's debut album on Deutsche Grammophon tops The Limelight Chart – our monthly list of Australia’s best-selling classical music albums.
The Hungarian pianist and Internet star, who held a Guinness World Record for fast fingers, talks about Michael Jackson and the parallels between making music and making food.
Sixty-five Impressionist masterpieces have travelled from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to the Art Gallery of South Australia.
The Israeli-born virtuoso faced two crises in his musical life. The first took him to Italy on a quest for buried treasure, and to solve the second, his latest willing recruit is Australia’s Elena Kats-Chernin.
James Crabb is set to open his first Festival as Artistic Director, which includes everything from Chopin to wind harps to music theatre.
Director Adena Jacobs talks about her latest project for Sydney Chamber Opera and the haunting story of trauma from which it grew.
Concerned for classical music’s future? Take a look at Michael Tilson Thomas’s Miami-based academy.
Music’s peerless scene painter, Claude Debussy often relied on his own imagination rather than first-hand experience, reflects Gerald Larner. Yet his ability to conjure up images and moods was little less than miraculous.
