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 Trinity Choir director reveals his deep connection to the music of Herbert Howells. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Beaux Arts Trio pianist talks about getting a second chance, trios, surviving open-heart surgery and ditto Alma Mahler. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The 92-year-old pianist talks Fauré, Ravel, Nazi Germany and feeling the hand of God. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Balance problems have affected the great Russian baritone who is being treated for a brain tumour. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Artist Director Rafael Bonachela discusses body image and the endless challenge of choreographing the nude. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Valery Gergiev gives this intriguing work its first performance in a century at the Mariinsky. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Australian mezzo is finishing off her year with Pinchgut Opera’s latest show and SwanSongs Perth. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Finnish maestro discusses the joys of Sibelius’s symphonies and thoughts on his second cycle. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Charles Dutoit will direct the composer’s tribute to Rimsky-Korsakov with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in June 2017. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Inspired musical values and post-Trump passions let down by awkward staging.
★★★★☆ Rules are joyfully bent and broken in four explorations of the new. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
★★★★½ Lise Lindstrom’s Brünnhilde crowns climax of Melbourne Ring. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
★★★★½ Vocal heroics and visual magic in Armfield’s theatrical Siegfried. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
