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Uncompromising theatre: Gilgamesh world premiere

Jeremy Kleeman (Gilgamesh) © Daniel Boud
A powerful work by brave innovators is a legacy for the departing Opera Australia Artistic Director. 
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A triptych of loss from Sydney Chamber Opera

Emily Edmonds in Quatre Instants © Daniel Boud
Monodramas by Francis Poulenc, Kaija Saariaho and Jack Symonds feature in a triple bill on the themes of love, loss and absence. 
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Blinding ice: Finsterer's frozen Antarctica at the Sydney Festival

Antarctica © Wendell Teodoro
Gorgeous music by Mary Finsterer and an evocative setting by Elizabeth Gadsby transport you to the ends of the earth.
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Britten's Canticles awakened at Sydney Chamber Opera

Awakening Shadow © Zan Wimberley
Luke Styles' interludes to the Canticles may not set the musical world alight in Awakening Shadow, but they provide the perfect excuse to perform Britten's remarkable works.
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The Repairing of Lucretia

The problematic nature of Britten's Rape of Lucretia is well-known: Sydney Chamber Opera's production attempts to navigate it via gender inversion. 
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Biographica: a mazy musical melange

Mary Finsterer has managed a musical melange that crosses effortlessly and delightfully from the Renaissance to today. If only Tom Wright's book and libretto had been a match, this would have been a work worth taking to the world.
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