Review: Tomorrow is Today (Papagena)
Immaculate quintet go on a journey from Hildegard to Kate Bush.
Clive Paget is a former Limelight Editor, now Editor-at-Large, and a tour leader for Limelight Arts Travel. Based in London after three years in New York, he writes for The Guardian, BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, Musical America and Opera News. Before moving to Australia, he directed and developed new musical theatre for London’s National Theatre.
Immaculate quintet go on a journey from Hildegard to Kate Bush.
At this year’s Australian Festival of Chamber Music, a concert inspired by Horrible Histories will explore the demise of several composers.
A new album uses period instruments and imaginative arrangements to explore the songs of Sir Arthur Sullivan as they might have been heard in their day. Clive Paget talks with its conductor John Andrews.
This month features Mahler from Bychkov and Runnicles, Pappano’s Planets, a Beethoven project completed, and choral discoveries from a distant branch of the Bach family tree.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
Flanders and North Africa collide in an emperor’s fantasy funeral.
Pappano saddles up a British warhorse and rides triumphantly into battle.
The Welsh composer's Hallé commissions are a perfect case of sparkling new wine in old bottles.
Rennert embraces her inner will-o’-the-wisp in a breathtaking recital.
After directing Wagner’s Ring Cycle in Hannover, Barrie Kosky vowed he would never tackle it again. Then The Royal Ballet & Opera called.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
This month features new music from Huw Watkins and Bernadette Harvey, old music by Dowland and Zelenka and blockbusters care of Alkan, Bizet and Lise Davidsen.
Watkins’ sparkling orchestral music celebrates a very special relationship.