When Voss premiered at the Adelaide Festival in March 1986, it was hailed as the long-awaited Great Australian Opera. With music by Richard Meale and a libretto by David Malouf, based on Patrick White’s novel, the audience applauded rapturously, and felt they were witnessing a defining moment in Australian cultural history. The critics were also impressed. The opera was performed in Sydney later that year, and revived in 1990. But it hasn’t been staged since. Why? In his cover feature Back From the Wilderness, Vincent Plush traces the history of the opera and hopes that the forth-coming semi-staged performances by Victorian Opera and State Opera South Australia will help rescue the opera from neglect.
The cover of Limelight’s August 2021 magazine.
Trent Dalton’s award-winning, best-selling novel Boy Swallows Universe is about to take flight on stage in a new Queensland Theatre/Brisbane Festival production. Originally scheduled to have its world premiere in 2020, the highly anticipated production will now be part of this year’s Brisbane Festival. Jane Albert speaks to adaptor Tim McGarry, director Sam Strong, designer Renée Mulder, cast members Joe Klocek and...
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