Opera Australia
Author of Great Performances: La Boheme [1994 TV episode]
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Adriana Lecouvreur: Opera Australia [film] — Company — 2 copies
Un Ballo in Maschera: Sydney Opera [film] — Company — 2 copies
Sydney Opera House 1 copy
Gilbert & Sullivan 1 copy
The Best of Joan Sutherland: Live From the Sydney Opera House, Vol. 2 (Opera Australia) (2001) 1 copy
Capriccio - Richard Strauss 1 copy
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The last decade of OA has been a challenging one; although the company has continued to grow, its artistic director since 2009, Lyndon Terracini, has been a fierce advocate for change and a certain level of corporatisation and mainstreaming that has challenged some traditionalists. The Terracini-led company has also been tentative toward new work and Australian work, although with a few notable successes along the way.
However this book was published in 2006, at the company's fiftieth anniversary. It is a company-produced volume, so in that sense is hardly going to be "warts and all". Yet it is a beautifully produced book and a nice reminder of the breadth of talent required for an opera company, the incredible generosity, luck and talent required to stage even a single work, let alone a vast season year after year, and of the marvellous magic that is opera.
(On the other hand, I keep seeing this book in second-hand stores lately. This suggests either that it has now become sorely dated, or that the average age of opera subscribers is only a few years from death! I leave that decision to you.)… (more)