Review: August Enna: Kleopatra (Danish National Opera)
Danish Cleopatra is a curiosity if a long-winded one.
February 15, 2021
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: Delalande: Les Fontaines de Versailles, Le Concert d’Esculape
Lively Bostonian band recreates Sun King’s watersports and more.
February 14, 2021
Revolutionary new opera company bursts onto the Sydney scene
With social justice an integral part of its message, The Cooperative looks set to make waves.
February 10, 2021
ASQ’s longest-serving player Stephen King steps back from performance
After nine years, the violist explains why he's transitioning to an educational and engagement role.
February 3, 2021
Nicolas Namoradze on York Bowen and the advantages of freakishly large hands
The pianist and Honens Laureate discusses his Hyperion disc of great British rediscoveries.
February 2, 2021
Review: Messager: Fortunio (Opéra Comique)
Nice staging, nice singers, shame about the tunes (or lack of them).
January 30, 2021
Australian Contemporary Opera Co brings love fail to Fed Square
Artistic Director Linda Thompson tells us about the renamed Gertrude Opera’s pandemic experience, plans for the future and upcoming performance of David Lang’s chamber opera at Melbourne’s Federation Square.
January 21, 2021
Did You Hear About History’s Most Absentminded Composer?
Students, his wife, even the Pope, Engelbert Humperdinck could forget about them all.
January 18, 2021
Review: Donizetti: Il Paria (Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder)
Top-notch performers and engineering, led by an experienced Donizettian with a keen instinct for how to shape this music.
January 5, 2021
James Gilchrist charts a century of British song
The tenor tells Clive Paget about recording his new series with pianist Nathan Williamson, the first volume of which is Limelight’s Recording of the Month for January–February 2021.
January 3, 2021
Review: Hans Werner Henze: Der Prinz von Homburg
Important 20th-century opera, well sung if uninterestingly staged.
December 29, 2020
Francesca Dego and Paganini’s Variations
Francesca Dego dances with “the Devil’s” favourite violin.
December 21, 2020
On Stage in January & February 2021: Classical Music, Opera & Theatre
Find out what's on stage – and streaming online – in January & February from Limelight editors Jo Litson, Angus McPherson and Clive Paget.
December 21, 2020