On Stage: the events you need to see in December 2024
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
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.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
Rizzi and Co reveal several other sides of a bel canto master.
Roberto Gerhard fled Franco. These colourful ballet scores show what the country lost.
Janáček’s drunken landlord finally gets his just desserts.
New ARCO release does what it says on the can.
Mallwitz traces Weill from headstrong youth to sinful maturity.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
This month features a Kurt Weill trifecta, idiomatic Dvořák symphonies from the Czech Phil, a major Joshua Bell rediscovery and a radical take on Mozart’s Requiem.
Weill's music is like a wormhole, says Mallwitz, one that transports you back to the explosively creative Berlin of the 1920s.
Move over male voice choirs, let’s hear it for the ladies.
Pichon’s perspective brings upswing and insights to Mozart’s swansong.
As the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs prepares to perform her works, Clive Paget traces the career of trailblazing British composer Dame Ethel Smyth.
Kyiv-born Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska chats with Clive Paget about her path to the podium, her support of Ukraine, her growing love of Ukrainian music and why she has released a classical mixtape.