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'In 1986, the Adelaide Festival staged an operatic adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning writer Patrick White’s 1957 novel Voss, a pivotal work in the Australian literary canon. The opera, with music by a leading figure of the classical music avant-garde, Richard Meale, and libretto by acclaimed novelist and poet, David Malouf, was conceived in the period leading up to the Bicentennial celebrations in 1988. It certainly tapped into the zeitgeist.' (Introduction)
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Having a national identity is like having an old insurance policy. You know you’ve got one somewhere but you’re not sure where it is. And if you’re honest, you would have to admit you’re pretty vague about what the small print means.
-Novelist William McIlvaney
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Where Is the Great Australian Opera?
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Subjects:
- Voss : Opera in Two Acts After the Novel by Patrick White 1980-1989 single work musical theatre
- Cloudstreet : The Opera 2016 single work musical theatre
- The Riders 2014 single work single work musical theatre
- Midnight Son 2012 single work musical theatre
- Bliss 2009 single work musical theatre
- The Eighth Wonder : Opera in Fifteen Scenes 1995 single work musical theatre
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1996 single work musical theatre
- The Rabbits 2015 single work drama
- Pecan Summer 2008 single work musical theatre
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