December 2, 2020
The Barber is back in 2021
SWEENEY TODD The Demon Barber of Fleet Street A Musical Thriller Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM Book by HUGH WHEELER Presented by STATE OPERA…
November 26, 2020
Voss in 2021
Voss One Night Only Presented by STATE OPERA SOUTH AUSTRALIA and VICTORIAN OPERA After 30 years in the wilderness, the great Australian opera Voss is…
November 9, 2020
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Program
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Read the online version of the program from 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…
November 4, 2020
Back at the Festival Theatre in 2021
BRINGING MUSICALS BACK TO FESTIVAL THEATRE IN 2021 One Night Only After a twelve-month hiatus, musicals return to the Festival Theatre in March 2021 when…
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…
