Limelight August 2022

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With 11 editions per year containing features, interviews, profiles, news, reviews and listening guides, Limelight provides breadth, liveliness and quality for discerning readers Cover story- Josh Piterman and The Music of the Night After playing the Phantom of the Opera in London's West End for six months from 2019, he was devastated when COVID arrived and the musical was shuttered. Now Josh Piterman finds himself living the dream as he reprises the role for Opera Australia. Who is he? And why did he step away from a busy stage career for a few years? Profile- Yeol Eum Son South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son makes her Australian debut performing concerts with the Sydney, Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, as well as a series of recitals. She chats about her career, which includes her role as Artistic Director of Music in PyeongChang, one of South Korea's largest classical music festivals. Interview- Alexander Briger The Artistic Director of the Australian World Orchestra discusses this year's concerts in Melbourne and Sydney, which feature three of Strauss's tone poems, under the baton of Maestro Zubin Mehta. Soundings- Check out our popular monthly columns including On the Record, Clive Paget's round-up of the best new recordings; Cutting Edge about the latest in new music; Guy Noble's amusing, provocative Soapbox; Sacred Cow, in which a guest writer vents, humorously, about something that bugs them in arts and culture; and My Music in which someone wellknown tells us about the music in their life. Reviews- Our experienced critics lend their minds to the latest concerts, operas, plays and dance works around the country including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's Mahler 2, conducted by Simone Young at the Sydney Opera House's newly refurbished Concert Hall; Cos fan tutte by Canberra's National Opera- and the premiere of the Australian musical Come Rain or Come Shine at Melbourne Theatre Company. On Air and Online- We preview the livestreams, cinema screenings, digital events and radio highlights to check out this month.

Independent and informed, Limelight offers Australia's best coverage of music, opera, theatre, dance, arts and culture at home and abroad. Originally published as 24 hours by the ABC over 40 years ago, Limelight is wellestablished as Australia's leading arts publication. It now offers a fresh, newlook magazine with more in-depth, analytical and literary articles.