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Michael Halliwell

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Description:Opera has been performed in Australia for more than two hundred years, yet none of the operas written before the Second World War have become part of the repertoire, and it is only in the late 1970s and early 1980s that there is evidence of the successful systematic production of indigenous opera. The premiere of Voss by Richard Meale and David Malouf in 1986 was a watershed in the staging and reception of new opera, and there has been a diverse series of new works staged in the last thirty years, not only by the national company, but also by thriving regional institutions. The emergence of a thriving operatic tradition in contemporary Australia is inextricably enmeshed in Australian cultural consciousness and issues of national identity. In this study of 18 representative contemporary operas, Michael Halliwell elucidates the ways in which the operas reflect and engage with the issues facing contemporary Australians. Stylistically these 18 operas vary greatly. The musical idiom is diverse, ranging from works in a modernist idiom such as The Ghost Wife, Whitsunday, Fly away Peter, Black River, Bride of Fortune, with Voss, Batavia, Bliss, Lindy, Midnight Son, The Riders, The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, The Children's Bach being works which straddle several musical styles, to operas which draw strongly on musical theatre, such as The Eighth Wonder, Pecan Summer, The Rabbits, Cloudstreet, with Love in the Age of Therapy couched in a predominantly jazz idiom. While some of them are overtly political, all, at least tangentially, deal with recent cultural politics in Australia and offer sharply differing perspectives.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths Reconsidered (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera). To get started finding National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths Reconsidered (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Opera has been performed in Australia for more than two hundred years, yet none of the operas written before the Second World War have become part of the repertoire, and it is only in the late 1970s and early 1980s that there is evidence of the successful systematic production of indigenous opera. The premiere of Voss by Richard Meale and David Malouf in 1986 was a watershed in the staging and reception of new opera, and there has been a diverse series of new works staged in the last thirty years, not only by the national company, but also by thriving regional institutions. The emergence of a thriving operatic tradition in contemporary Australia is inextricably enmeshed in Australian cultural consciousness and issues of national identity. In this study of 18 representative contemporary operas, Michael Halliwell elucidates the ways in which the operas reflect and engage with the issues facing contemporary Australians. Stylistically these 18 operas vary greatly. The musical idiom is diverse, ranging from works in a modernist idiom such as The Ghost Wife, Whitsunday, Fly away Peter, Black River, Bride of Fortune, with Voss, Batavia, Bliss, Lindy, Midnight Son, The Riders, The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, The Children's Bach being works which straddle several musical styles, to operas which draw strongly on musical theatre, such as The Eighth Wonder, Pecan Summer, The Rabbits, Cloudstreet, with Love in the Age of Therapy couched in a predominantly jazz idiom. While some of them are overtly political, all, at least tangentially, deal with recent cultural politics in Australia and offer sharply differing perspectives.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths Reconsidered (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera). To get started finding National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths Reconsidered (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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