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Based on the novel Bliss by Peter Carey.
Production Details
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Commissioned by the Australian Opera. Workshopped at the State Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria, [May, 2009.]
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First produced at the Sydney Opera House, 12, 17, 20, 25, 27 and 30 March 2010. Director: Neil Armfield. Musical Director: Elgar Howarth. (This production broadcast live on ABC2, and into selected cinemas, on 17 March 2010.)
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University of Queensland Press
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1981
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novel
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'For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a necessary prelude to real life.' (From the author's website.)
Works about this Work
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Where Is the Great Australian Opera?
2018
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 17 August 2018;'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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New Opera in Australia : It's Not Over Till Senator Brandis Sings
2015
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 19 March 2015; 'It’s hard enough to mount an Australian opera, let alone revive one. Ahead of the findings of the national opera review, we hear from the rabbits and the riders.' -
Director Slates Backward-Looking Snobs, Phantoms of the Opera
2011
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— Appears in: The Australian , 2 November 2011; (p. 3) -
Towards an Australian Art-Music Canon
2011
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— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 55 no. 10 2011; (p. 91-97)"is there an Australian art-music canon? Does Australian music feature in any lists of 1001 works to be listened to before you die?' Joel Crotty.
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Modern Opera's Literary Success Story
2011
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— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 55 no. 10 2011; (p. 86-90)
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Blissful Performance on Anti-Hero's Journey to Pixelated Hell
2010
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 March 2010; (p. 10)
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Long Live Bliss a Joy Forever
2010
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— Appears in: The Age , 15 March 2010; (p. 16)
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Untitled
2010
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 21 March 2010; (p. 20)
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Finding Bliss at Southbank
2010
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— Appears in: The Age , 22 April 2010; (p. 23)
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Novelist's Search for a Lost Soul Has Found New Glorious Success as Musical Theatre
2010
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— Appears in: The Times , 4 September 2010; (p. 27)
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Opera as Bliss and Hell
2009
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— Appears in: The Age , 11 May 2009; (p. 14) -
Opera Australia Finds its Bliss
2009
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— Appears in: The Age , 11 September 2009; (p. 14) -
The True History of the Bliss Gang
2010
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 March 2010; (p. 6-7, 9) -
A Long-Delayed Bliss Is Fulfilled At Last
2010
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 March 2010; (p. 14) -
An Ode to Joy
2010
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 7 March 2010; (p. 20)
Awards
- 2010 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia — Best Opera Nominated for the 2009 Opera Australia production.
- 2010 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia — Best New Australian Work Nominated for the 2009 Opera Australia production.
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