On Stage: the events you need to see in January/February 2025
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
December 20, 2024
Clive Paget
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.
Articles by Clive Paget
Review: Americascapes 2: American Opus (Basque National Orchestra, Robert Treviño)
Treviño backs three more winners in his second American odyssey.
December 9, 2024
Review: Camille Erlanger: La sorcière (Andreea Soare, Jean-François Borras, Orchestre et Choeur de la Haute école de musique de Genève, Guillaume Tourniaire)
Tourniaire rescues a fin-de-siècle opera and its composer from obscurity.
December 4, 2024
Good Tidings
It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. Clive Paget recommends eight of the best new albums featuring festive music.
November 25, 2024
The 2024 Limelight Recording of the Year
Competition was fierce but independent labels swept the board.
November 25, 2024
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.
November 25, 2024
Review: Donizetti Songs Volume 1 & 2 (Lawrence Brownlee, Nicola Alaimo, Carlo Rizzi)
Rizzi and Co reveal several other sides of a bel canto master.
November 20, 2024
Juanjo Mena: An advocate for Spain’s most neglected composer
Roberto Gerhard fled Franco. These colourful ballet scores show what the country lost.
November 15, 2024
Review: Janáček: The Excursions of Mr. Brouček (Prague National Theatre Orchestra, Jaroslav Kyzlink)
Janáček’s drunken landlord finally gets his just desserts.
November 12, 2024
Review: Illuminate (Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra)
New ARCO release does what it says on the can.
October 23, 2024
Review: The Kurt Weill Album (Katharine Mehrling, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Joana Mallwitz)
Mallwitz traces Weill from headstrong youth to sinful maturity.
October 21, 2024
On Stage: the events you need to see in November 2024
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
October 21, 2024
On the Record: November 2024
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.
October 21, 2024