Conductor and Artistic Director of Sydney Chamber Opera Jack Symonds discusses Elliott Gyger’s new opera, an adaptation of the beloved Peter Carey novel Oscar and Lucinda.
Sydney Chamber Opera produced and commissioned Elliott Gyger’s first opera, Fly Away Peter, which we performed in 2015. It was almost immediately after that, I asked Elliott “what’s the next opera you want to write?”
Oscar and Lucinda. Photo © Image © Samuel Hodge
He took a while to think, but I talked to him again in 2016 and he said he couldn’t shake the idea of making an opera out...
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