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.
