Performed on the Forecourt, Sydney Opera House 28 October - 5 November 2016
COMPOSER Alan John
LIBRETTIST Dennis Watkins
& Alan John
CONDUCTOR Anthony Legge
DIRECTOR David Freeman
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Dan Potra
LIGHTING DESIGNER Trent Suidgeest
VIDEO DESIGNER Marco Devetak
CHOREOGRAHER Andrew Hallsworth
SOUND DESIGNER Tony David Cray
THE ARCHITECT Adam Frandsen
ALEXANDRA MASON Stacey Alleaume
THE PREMIER Martin Buckingham
STEPHEN GOLDRING / WORKER Michael Petruccelli
POLITICIAN / REPORTER Samuel Dundas
THE ENGINEER David Greco
THE MAESTRO Adrian Tamburini
KEN MASON / ART LOVER / AIDE DE CAMP David Parkin
SKY / AUNT OLIVE / SOCIALITE Eva Kong
EARTH / AUNT JEAN / MISS HODGES Anna Yun
EILEEN MASON Rebecca Currier
THE QUEEN Gerry Connolly
MADAME MAGNA / SOCIALITE Jermaine Chau
WRITER / JUROR / REPORTER Simon Meadows
DAUGHTER / CLARE GOLDRING / SOCIALITE Zoe Drummond
FOREMAN / MUSIC LOVER Nicholas Jones
'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)
'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)