On Stage: the events you need to see in July 2023
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.
Jonathan Howard on two Elizabethan giants and why you should never pee on someone’s head from the organ loft.
Six works, three players, one fascinating journey.
Rota’s Parisian soufflé gets its just deserts at last.
Jacobs draws every drop of drama out of Haydn’s stately Stabat.
The King’s Singers celebrate “Tom and Will”, Poles propel Weinberg string quartets to the top of the list, and it’s another great month for women composers.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
In world’s first opera, moral debates and souls in torment have seldom felt such fun.
Christian Lacroix serves up a riot of colour in the original Parisian sex comedy.
The British countertenor talks text, musical line, and those tricksy bottom notes.
Silesian survey of 20th-century masterworks vaults to top of the pile.
Mead’s eye for detail shows Restoration masterpieces in their true colours.
This month, Tim Mead’s Beauteous Softness does what it says on the can, there’s new music from First Nations composers, and classics from Benjamin Grosvenor and the Brodskys.