What makes A Child of Our Time a work for all time?
Eighty years on, argues Brett Weymark, Tippett's pacifist oratorio feels more relevant than ever.
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.
Eighty years on, argues Brett Weymark, Tippett's pacifist oratorio feels more relevant than ever.
Clive Paget caught up with violinists Catherine Manson and Michael Gurevich to find out what’s so special about Haydn’s Op. 76, quartets and what a historically informed approach brings to the composer.
The work is the brainchild of baritone Joshua Hopkins whose sister was murdered in 2015.
Boesch’s Schumann dominates a decade in search of new directions.
From Montéclair to Martinů, lesser-known works are much in vogue as the new year gets into its stride.
Danish Cleopatra is a curiosity if a long-winded one.
Lively Bostonian band recreates Sun King’s watersports and more.
With social justice an integral part of its message, The Cooperative looks set to make waves.
After nine years, the violist explains why he's transitioning to an educational and engagement role.
The pianist and Honens Laureate discusses his Hyperion disc of great British rediscoveries.
Nice staging, nice singers, shame about the tunes (or lack of them).
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.
Students, his wife, even the Pope, Engelbert Humperdinck could forget about them all.