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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
November 9, 2020

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Program

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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
November 9, 2020

From Theatre to Opera

Widely recognised as Australia’s most well-known and loved play, Ray Lawler’s Summer of the 17th Doll is quintessential Australian theatre. The Mills/Goldsworthy opera adaptation successfully…
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
November 1, 2020

Designing the Set for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

There is a significant history to Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, both in the memories of an Australian audience, but also in the story and…
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
October 26, 2020

From a play to Libretto

Our lives begin as opera. Our first memories, the indelible memories of early childhood, are operatic: overblown, deeply resonant, larger than life. Infancy is a…
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
October 23, 2020

Writing for my Fellow Australians

Opera is a complex metaphor for life — not realistic but in that unrealistic frame essentially more real than real because of its capacity to…
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
September 2, 2020

Summer of the Seventeenth – The Draft

At my first meeting with Richard Mills, he told me the story of the diva, Montserrat Caballe, amply proportioned, who was asked to sing while…
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
July 31, 2020

Why Summer of the Seventeenth Doll?

Artistic Director of State Opera,  Stuart Maunder speaks about why he chose to include Summer of the Seventeenth Doll in State Opera's 2020 season.State Opera…
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