Maestro: The Power and Passion of Leonard Bernstein
Musicians, friends and family share their memories of a colossus of 20th-century music, now the subject of the Netflix biopic Maestro.
Musicians, friends and family share their memories of a colossus of 20th-century music, now the subject of the Netflix biopic Maestro.
What does period performance mean? And what does it take to be HIP in classical music?
From the concerts to the clothes, he’s never been just your average pianist. We catch up with the classical celebrity. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
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Limelight’s Editor Francis Merson bids a fond farewell after leading the magazine for four years.
Limelight Magazine editor Francis Merton shares his thoughts on the devastating cuts to the ABC.
Here's a preview of this month's Limelight Magazine cover feature. Which works of today will be the classics of tomorrow?
Vengerov, Lewis, Isserlis, Maisky and a host of great ensembles head Musica Viva's 70th Season.
At 72-years-young, Paul Anka proves you can’t keep a good man down.
Joe Chindamo is a jazz pianist with the chops of a Russian virtuoso; Zoë Black is a versatile classical fiddler who has played with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, inter alia.
A rather good opera company tucked away in Armidale. Who knew?
Without inviting accusations of Sydney snobbery, I think I can safely state that opera performances are not exactly a frequent occurrence in Armidale, a rural town of some 24,473 inhabitants in northern NSW. This makes the sophomore production by local company Opera New England something of a big deal – and not just for the town’s inhabitants, but for all those who believe opera can, and should, flourish outside Australia’s state capitals. Puccini’s La Bohème was the ambitious choice of opera (following on a well-received debut with Figaro last year), and it demonstrated that even a grand Romantic blockbuster can be staged in a small theatre on a small budget. All you need is an engaged community, a dash of talent and plenty of hard yakka. The cast of this production was comprised of hopeful young singers from around Australia, and I’m guessing it took little effort for them to step into the roles of passionate young artists living on the smell of an oily canvas. Many of the voices were still works-in-progress, but all the singers were able to meet the challenges of the score, some brilliantly so. As the consumptive seamstress Mimì, recent Sydney Con graduate Sarah Toth gave an assured performance,…