On the Record: July 2022
This month, we lead with gripping string quartets from the greatest composer nobody knew for years, plus a century of outstanding music by women, both home and away.
June 20, 2022
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
Chamber, Classical Music, Dance, Festivals, Instrumental, Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Opera, Orchestral, Stage, Theatre, Vocal & Choral
On Stage: the events you need to see in July 2022
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
June 20, 2022
Little-known story of Australian nurses in Vietnam becomes an opera
Elizabeth Lewis tells an extraordinary story and describes her collaboration with Brenton Broadstock.
June 14, 2022
Divisi: Meet the choir happily queering its own pitch
Alex Gorbatov and Bailey Montgomery discuss the importance of LGBTQIA+ stories in classical music.
June 9, 2022
Review: Wagner: Parsifal (Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Massimo, Omer Meir Wellber)
Vick and Wellber’s anti-Parsifal has much to say that needs saying.
June 8, 2022
Review: Olga Neuwirth: Orlando (Kate Lindsey, Anna Clementi, Eric Jurenas, Justin Vivian Bond, Wiener Staatsoper, Matthias Pintscher)
Neuwirth bends more than just gender in her bold new Woolf work.
June 3, 2022
Inaugural ViolaScape festival aims to raise the instrument’s profile
Wenhong Luo and William Vyvyan Murray talk all-things viola (and yes, there's the statuary joke).
May 31, 2022
Review: Janáček: Jenůfa (Staatskapelle Berlin, Simon Rattle)
Opera’s most dysfunctional of families gets searing staging and stellar vocals.
May 30, 2022
Semyon Bychkov on Mahler’s harmony and contradictions
The Russian conductor talks to Clive Paget about how he fell in love with the music of Mahler as a schoolboy back in Leningrad in the 1950s.
May 24, 2022
On the Record: June 2022
The piano leads the field with front runners Mitsuko Uchida and Leif Ove Andsnes, but first an auspicious start to a brand new Mahler cycle.
May 23, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music, Dance, Festivals, Instrumental, Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Opera, Orchestral, Stage, Theatre, Vocal & Choral
On Stage: the events you need to see in June 2022
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
May 23, 2022
Teresa Berganza has died
The Spanish mezzo-soprano – one of the greatest of all Carmens – has passed at 89.
May 17, 2022
Review: Umberto Giordano: Siberia (Orchestra e Coro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gianandrea Noseda)
Handsome revival rescues opera unfairly consigned to Siberia.
May 17, 2022