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Four Saints in Three Acts: Victorian youth breeze through nonsense opera

By Patricia Maunder, 02 October 2016
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“played with reality in a way that underscored the opera's surreal nature”
Reviewed at Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne on 30 September 2016
Programme
Thomson, Four Saints in Three Acts
Performers
Victorian Opera
Phoebe Briggs, Conductor
Nancy Black, Director
Raphael Wong, St Ignatius
Sophia Wasley, St Teresa
Shakira Dugan, St Teresa
Margaret Arnold, The Commere
Carlos Bárcenas, St Chavez
Jerzy Kozlowski, The Compère
Victorian Opera Youth Opera
Victorian Opera Youth Orchestra
Kim Vincs, Director
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Patricia Maunder
Patricia Maunder
Patricia Maunder has been an arts journalist for more than 20 years, contributing to publications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK including The Sydney Morning Herald and Opera magazine. She is based in Melbourne, but considers Montreal her 'other' hometown after living there in 2012-16. For more about Patricia, visit her website.