'...CO’s latest world premiere, an adaptation of David Malouf’s 1982 novel Fly Away Peter, is a work of dramatic and musical integrity which manages to, in moments, tug at the heartstrings as well as any of the great classic tragic operas. The opera follows Jim Saddler (Mitchell Riley), a birdwatcher from the Gold Coast, as he enlists in the army and travels to the Western front during World War I...'