In our cover feature for the May issue of Limelight, conductor Sir Simon Rattle and bass-baritone Gerald Finley talk to Clive Paget about why Janáček’s animal tale The Cunning Little Vixen – which they have recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra – is one of the most profound and personal operas ever written.

Limelight May 2021
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Composer Paul Dean tells Christopher Lawrence about the “weight of history” that comes with writing a work called “Symphony” ahead of the first performances of his new commission celebrating the Australian World Orchestra’s tenth birthday – and how his first ideas wound up in the bin – while Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s new Artistic Director, the singer-actor Alan...