On Stage: the events you need to see in October 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.
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ground breaker gets ground-breaking treatment.
This month we are in vocal heaven with period instrument Rodgers & Hammerstein, Shakespearean song, an operatic take on Wuthering Heights, and a resurrected Parsifal.
Sir James MacMillan’s Stabat Mater has its Australian premiere this month. Here, the composer discusses its text, his faith and why composing is a compulsion.
Sampson and Williams go measure for measure in a savvy Shakespearean fantasy.
This engrossing start to Barrie Kosky’s new Ring Cycle can be seen in Australian cinemas this month.
Epic sampling of a Hollywood maestro’s Brontë opera whets the appetite.
The English Concert's music director explains why every bar of Serse is worth recording.
Architectural vision and a unique 1955 cast in Kna’s greatest hit.
On the 400th anniversary of Byrd’s death, we discuss his subversive career with British conductor and musicologist David Skinner.
Handel’s tree-hugging despot enjoys a lively new outing, the Philly aces Rachmaninov, Christian Li explores Mendelssohn, and Offenbach’s Peruvian soufflé fizzes with fun.
Tuck rounds off her entertaining and illuminating Czerny series in style.
The Danish String Quartet violinist explains how the Prism series has been a rite of passage.