Limelight 2020 - Volume 17: July: Australia's Classical Music and Arts Magazine

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Cover story- Prince of the Cello- Sheku Kanneh-Mason shot to international fame when he played at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. We interview the 20-year-old British cellist who makes his Australian debut in August when he performs as a guest artist at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, and then goes on a national tour with his six talented musical siblings. Feature- Page Turner- Trent Dalton, the Australian author of best-selling novel Boy Swallows Universe, and director Sam Strong discuss the stage adaptation of the book as it makes its world premiere at the Brisbane Festival. Interview- Limelight' s Deputy Editor, Angus McPherson, chats with Chinese maestro Long Yu, backstage in Shanghai, ahead of his concert with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducting Dvorak' s Cello Concerto with Li-Wei Qin as soloist. Opera Column- French director Olivier Py discusses his production of Halevy' s grand French opera La Juive, opening at Opera Australia. Telling the story of a dangerous, impossible love affair between a Christian man and a Jewish woman, Py has updated the setting to France in the 1930s. Reviews- Mahler' s Song of the Earth by the Australian Chamber Orchestra with Stuart Skelton and Christianne Stotjin; Beethoven' s Pastoral Symphony at Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy as part of an international United Nations project; Sexual Conduct of the Middle Classes by Canadian playwright Hannan Moscovitch, a fiery play about contemporary gender politics at Melbourne Theatre Company. What' s on- live performance and radio highlights for July 2020.