David Robertson introduces his fifth season with Ax, Freire, Grosvenor, Mutter, Capuçon and Batiashvili among the headliners. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Fine music making plumbs tales of hardship, trauma and dislocation.

A Rolls Royce line up takes a musical Winter Palace by storm.

It’s Bach, Jim, but not always as we know it.

In a season of ‘H’s’, Erin Helyard returns to his beloved Handel and finally gets to host some Johann Adolph Hasse.

The German soprano’s Meyerbeer disc is Limelight’s Recording of the Month for August 2017. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

If the musical night sky could be said to be littered with the glittering trails of falling stars, perhaps no single composer has fallen quite so far and so fast as Jacob Liebmann Beer (1791-1864), or Giacomo Meyerbeer as he came to be known. The darling of the Paris Opéra for 25 years as a result of the enduring success of Robert le Diable with its infamous ballet in which a graveyard full of deceased nuns rise up to cavort in the moonlight, the German-born Meyerbeer went on to dominate the French opera scene with a string of romantic and historical blockbusters such as L’Africaine (where the heroine expires from the scent of a deadly tropical tree), Les Huguenots (in which the three principals are simultaneously shot by a chorus of murderers), and Le Prophète (where the final scene calls for the entire cast to be blown up with gunpowder!). Within a decade of his demise, however, Meyerbeer began to suffer an almost total eclipse, a victim of his over-the-top plots, the new music of Wagner and his followers, and, some would suggest, prey to the nasty brand of anti-Semitism that came to a head in the… Continue reading Get…

Tasty Trout gets a flavoursome grilling, if not quite a flambé.

Sinkovsky's the star in an evening of baroque pearls.

A slice of life over 100 years in a Singapore hotel, a virtual opera star and a mysterious bathhouse are among the offerings. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The acclaimed Australian soprano hopes to continue performing but will be moving to Perth in January.

Brett Weymark and SCC would have made Richard Gill proud, not to mention Britten.