November 9, 2020
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Program
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…