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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…

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…

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…

Opera is a complex metaphor for life — not realistic but in that unrealistic frame essentially more real than real because of its capacity to…

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…