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National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera - Myths Reconsidered (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,440
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National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera - Myths Reconsidered (Paperback): Michael Halliwell

National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera - Myths Reconsidered (Paperback)

Michael Halliwell

Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera

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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. 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 eighteen representative contemporary operas, Michael Halliwell elucidates the ways in which the operas reflect and engage with the issues facing contemporary Australians. Stylistically these eighteen 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 and Bride of Fortune, to Voss, Batavia, Bliss, Lindy, Midnight Son, The Riders, The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and The Children's Bach being works which straddle several musical styles. A number of operas draw strongly on musical theatre including The Eighth Wonder, Pecan Summer, The Rabbits and Cloudstreet, and Love in the Age of Therapy is 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.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
Release date: February 2019
Authors: Michael Halliwell
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-23192-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
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LSN: 0-367-23192-1
Barcode: 9780367231927

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