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Palmer: The Drover’s Wife
Tahu Matheson; Leah Purcell; Opera Australia; Isabel Hudson; Tess Schofield; Karen Norris; Opera Australia Orchestra
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The Drover's Wife brings Aboriginal Dreaming to opera audiences
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Emerging from different incarnations of Leah Purcell’s play, George Palmer’s opera develops traditional Dreaming elements from Aboriginal mythology, premiering in Brisbane.
Terracini responds to his critics
Would Britain enjoy 'The Rabbits'? For that's how the new Australian family opera allegorises the colonial Poms who came to this Terra Nullius Downunder, denying the existence of the native Aborigines - appearing as Marsupials in this opera.