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National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera
Myths Reconsidered
Langbeschreibung
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 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Prologue: Into the Abyss - Batavia 2. Failure: The Establishing of Colonial Myths - Voss 3. The Bush - The Ghost Wife, Whitsunday, Fly away Peter 4. Postwar Disillusion - The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Cloudstreet 5. New Beginnings - Bride of Fortune, The Riders 6. Cultural Renaissance - The Eighth Wonder 7. Suburban Dreams and Nightmares - The Children's Bach, Love in the Age of Therapy, Midnight Son 8. Journey to Salvation - Lindy, Bliss 9. Silenced Voices Sing - Black River, Pecan Summer, The Rabbits
Michael Halliwell studied music and literature at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and at the London Opera Centre, as well as with Tito Gobbi in Florence. He has sung over fifty major operatic roles in Europe, North America, South Africa and Australia and was principal baritone for many years with the Netherlands Opera, the Nürnberg Municipal Opera and the Hamburg State Opera. He has recorded settings of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads, Amy Woodforde-Finden's songs, Boer War songs, Austrailian WWI songs and Australian Shakespeare songs. His book Opera and the Novel was published in 2005. He is on the staff of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
ISBN-13:
9781472433275
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
14.09.2017
Seiten:
208
Autor:
Michael Halliwell
Gewicht:
513 g
Format:
234x156x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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