On Stage: the events you need to see in December 2021
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.
Luminous and characterful, Respighi’s uncharted side is revealed in the richest of lockdown discoveries.
For Swafford’s Mozart, love was in the air, everywhere he looked.
From Igor Levit to Stephen Hough the piano takes centre stage this month, but there are vocal pleasures too with Respighi songs and Christian Gerhaher’s complete Schumann.
Warner’s visually arresting and faultless staging declares Hindemith’s masterpiece.
Terence Blanchard’s important new work is gut-wrenching, but it’s also uplifting.
An Aussie Josephine is just one of the rippers as G&S meets Morecambe and Wise.
Our Recording of the Month for November is Bellini's I Puritani, with American tenor Lawrence Brownlee. He talks to Clive Paget about Kaunas, Lithuania's unlikely opera centre, and the challenges of casting this epic work.
Six concerts and an intriguing line-up of soloists see the orchestra venturing well beyond the Baroque.
Lithuanian band and American leads slam dunk Italian opera on English Civil War.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
Blockbusters from Kaufmann and the Dude lead a stellar pack, but an exceptional month throws up plenty of other treasure, plus a remarkable Aussie debut.
The great Dutch conductor and prolific recording artist has passed at 92.