The Australian entertainer and musical theatre star talks Peter Allen and touring with his "stage mum" ahead of his debut on the Bravo Cruise of the Performing Arts.

The August 2018 issue of Limelight Magazine features the thrilling ride to international Wagnerian glory of Australian Heldentenor Stuart Skelton.

You – our readers – share your thoughts about the performances you’ve loved, the stories that have piqued your interest and the state of musical life in Australia.

In an exclusive interview with Limelight, Anna Netrebko speaks about life, art and the things she won't do anymore.

★★★★☆ A terrific cast in an exuberant semi-staged production of a quaintly old-fashioned show. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

For this ‘composer’, the act of operatic creation is a case of stitching together the mouldering body parts of the greats. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

One maestro pays tribute to another, recalling a friend, a mentor and one of the true giants of the Australian music scene. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

When it comes to bel canto, might a microphone or two might help it come over a little more ‘con belto’? Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

New technology gives audience members a musicians-eye view during Adelaide Symphony Orchestra performances. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Or why does what seems so easy with Cheryl Barker turn out to be tricky with Teddy Tahu Rhodes? Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

And just what kind of music lover should be chosen to colonise the Red Planet? Apparently 43 Australians are in the running for a position on Mars One – the plan to put humans on Mars in the year 2024. I’m glad to say I’m not one of them, as this is a one-way mission. No return is possible. Every year or so, Mars One will send more supplies and more Martians. Some 200,000 people around the world applied and now they have selected 1,000 to undergo training and psychometric testing. (I’m a great believer in psychometric testing by the way. This is the same system that determined Jonathan Shier would be an excellent managing director of the ABC, and we all remember how well that worked out.)  Eventually four Marstronauts will blast off on a one-way ride to the Red Planet.  What criteria might you use to select four people to leave Earth forever? They’d have to be healthy, but musical compatibility must be up there. Imagine being a string quartet lover and having a country and western fanatic in the next bunk – your Grosse Fuge interrupted by the strains of Keith Urban. Musical tension… Continue reading Get unlimited…

I was staying in a hotel recently in Adelaide, while conducting the Adelaide Symphony, and the walls of the lobby were scrawled with handwritten aphorisms. I will enjoy a belly laugh. I will have my cake and eat it too. I will be honest. I will play. I will make love not war. I will unlock my potential. I will believe anything is possible. I will swap worry for wonder. I will promise not to throw a bucket of white paint over this drivel. Sorry, that last one was mine, but really, what is this nonsense? It is verbal pollution and our lives are full of it. Everywhere you go these days modern corporations are bombarding us with little messages that are supposed to make us feel better about ourselves and as a consequence feel better about the products of these companies and then presumably buy more of them. But they just make me mad.  The strapline of the ANZ Bank is We live in your world. Well unless the bank had its headquarters in Alpha Centauri, we can safely assume we already know that. So what is it meant to be telling us, that the bank is not a vast…