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.
Joseph Nolan plans to welcome the Queen of Sheba amongst a programme ranging from Bach to Britten. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Executive Director Jarrod Carland puts the company into administration, leaving artists little hope of payment. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Michieletto flashes his verismo credentials as Torre goes for double gold.
The director of the BBC’s epic Hollow Crown on Shakespeare, Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville and Benedict Cumberbatch. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Singers include Daniel Sumegi, Isabel Leonard, Nathan Gunn, Lawrence Brownlee, Patricia Racette and Matthew Polenzani. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The October 2016 awards see a few of the companies who lost their four-year funding making some headway. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
All of human life is here, brilliantly juxtaposed both with and without clothes.
Affectionate story and strong cast help ladies find some of their feet.
The Gandalf of the keys is headed for Oz, and Sydneysiders take note, the sorcerer of Continuous Music is seeking an apprentice. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
It was the famous gift of 20,000 francs from the aging Paganini that allowed Berlioz to take time out from the drudgery of music journalism in 1839 and devote himself to a new work. Romeo and Juliet had been close to his heart since his then muse and now wife had played the heroine a decade earlier – but Berlioz was never one to choose the obvious. Shakespeare was too sublime to risk throwing it away on the Opéra (who had recently massacred his Benvenuto Cellini), so the French maverick embarked upon his third, and most unusual symphony to date. The result was a unique hybrid that even now struggles to find a home in the concert hall. A pity, as with a little imagination (and enough money for the substantial forces), it is full of drama, poetry and intensely original orchestral passages. In short, a masterpiece. Robin Ticciati has proven himself heir to Colin Davis with his Berlioz series on Linn (a fresh Fantastique, a moving L’Enfance du Christ and a very special Nuits d’Été) and this last instalment is, if anything, even finer. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays superbly and the Linn engineers achieve a fine separation…
The French conductor (and close associate of Maria Callas), who thought of himself as Viennese, has passed away at 92. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Finnish composer shocked many in the establishment when he embraced a popular mysticism with his musical angels.
The Russian virtuoso discusses the transcendent joys of Liszt and why it’s important not to get carried away. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
