Bradley Cooper takes his skills as an actor/director to another level in this inventive Leonard Bernstein biography.

Musicians, friends and family share their memories of a colossus of 20th-century music, now the subject of the Netflix biopic Maestro.

“Jewface” controversy erupts over actor-director Bradley Cooper's use of makeup for his portrayal of composer Leonard Bernstein.

Featuring some of Australia’s finest pianists in a visually immersive performance space, this four-day festival is piano heaven.

Clive Paget recommends modern masterpieces from the Met, Rattle’s damnable Faust, and a seven-year-old Yo-Yo.

How serious new music is fusing classical and contemporary. How Mozart, Ravel and Liszt really died. Is West Side Story more relevant than ever?

When he directs a concert version of Bernstein’s operetta for the Sydney Philharmonia, Mitchell Butel will tune into the naivety and arrogance of youth, and colourful pop art.

As he prepares to make his Australian debut, the veteran American baritone talks Mahler, Bernstein, American art song, and why he finds pandas so adorable.

As we celebrate the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth, Vincent Plush looks back on his blazing, multi-faceted career and recalls a few personal encounters, including a rare appearance by the maestro semi-clad and wearing silver lamé.

Get your copy of Limelight Magazine's May 2018 edition featuring Leonard Bernstein, Birgit Nilsson, Thomas Hampson and Grace Clifford.

The May 2018 issue of Limelight Magazine reveals what really motivated the original, hard-working, hard-living, musical genius – Leonard Bernstein.

Get your copy of Limelight Magazine's April 2018 edition featuring maestro Riccardo Muti, The Death of Stalin's Simon Russell Beale and Howard Shelley on Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream.