Review: Britten (London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Simon Rattle)
Rattle on Britten: guaranteed to put a spring in your step.
June 12, 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: Das Rheingold (Staatskapelle Berlin, Christian Thielemann)
Dmitri Tcherniakov’s Berlin Rheingold enthrals and occasionally frustrates.
June 5, 2024
Handel’s Theodora: The oratorio that went from zero to hero
Jonathan Cohen explores an 18th-century work that speaks to 21st-century hearts and minds.
June 4, 2024
Review: Busoni: Doktor Faust (Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Cornelius Meister)
Busoni’s magnum opus makes it to the screen at last.
May 31, 2024
On Song
As he prepares for the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, baritone Roderick Williams talks how he became “the go-to guy” for English song.
May 20, 2024
On the Record: June 2024
A sublime new recording of Handel’s Theodora, recitals from Véronique Gens, Roderick Williams and Michael Spyres, and a Russian blockbuster from Sir Antonio Pappano.
May 20, 2024
On Stage: the events you need to see in June 2024
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
May 20, 2024
Review: In The Shadows (Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset)
Wagner’s origins explored by your friendly neighbourhood baritenor.
May 13, 2024
Haven’t heard of Louise Bertin? You should …
Christophe Rousset explains how a 21-year-old Parisian girl rose and fell.
May 7, 2024
Review: Fear No More (Brindley Sherratt, Julius Drake)
Well worth the wait as British bass cuts his debut disc.
May 6, 2024
Review: Maurice Yvain: Yes!
The Frenchiest of operettas springs to life with oodles of Ooh la la!
May 1, 2024
Review: Louise Bertin: Fausto (Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset)
Berlioz’s employer’s daughter turns out to be a first-rate composer.
April 22, 2024
On the Record: May 2024
A Frenchwoman’s resurrected Faust is Recording of the Month alongside an opera-fest that includes Kaufmann’s Parsifal. Smetana, Stravinsky, Debussy and Rózsa also feature.
April 22, 2024