
It explores the choice facing many parents: more money and longer working hours but less time to enjoy with your family versus less money and shorter working hours but more time spent with the family. This is the story of Madeira Cake and her family living in a post-coronavirus recession. The Bright Side of Bum Town – written by Frieda Lee The work will be creatively developed in 2020 for production in 2021. Reflection on the music and narration of these stories will be shared from a woman’s perspective. Accompanying Vivaldi’s Four Seasons will be original scores with a strong focus on First instruments, traditional rhythms, mother tongues and cultural voices. The work will be presented in late 2020.Ī global collaboration involving First Nations performers, composers and musicians that tells true stories of the first contact on occupied territories around the world. Prepare to be stunned as if you are catapulted across the stage in this gripping new physical performance. Helpmann Award winning Australian company Branch Nebula artists Lee Wilson, Mirabelle Wouters, Mickie Quick and Phil Downing have been in the lab, fixated on phenomena like pressure, vacuum, gravity, magnetism – and slimy, gloopy stuff. Part DIY shed, part Medieval research centre, part obsessive Bunnings shopping spree, CRUSH blows up the boundaries of the physical body and mind.

The world premiere will be presented as part of the Opera House’s digital season From Our House to Yours on 10 October.ĬRUSH – by artists Lee Wilson, Mirabelle Wouters, Mickie Quick and Phil Downing Janáček's hauntingly beautiful song cycle questions the romantic ideal that the love of another person can rescue us from the suffering and mundanity of our existence.

Sydney Chamber Opera – Diary of One Who Disappeared, commissioned by Professor Ross Steele AMĪ new production of Diary of One Who Disappeared by Czech composer Leoš Janáček (1854-1928).
