18 March 2010
Four Bliss photo essays now online
Brett Dean's opera will travel to Edinburgh and Hamburg
Image: Peter Coleman-Wright as Harry Joy in Bliss © Bridget Elliot
Bridget Elliot's series of photo essays about Brett Dean's and Amanda Holden's new opera Bliss is now complete. The four essays, available on the AMC website, are complemented by articles by Brett Dean, Amanda Holden and Michael Halliwell, focusing on the composer's and the librettist's work and the journey of Bliss from the novel by Peter Carey into an opera libretto.
The long-awaited premiere of Bliss took place in Sydney on 12 March. After the Sydney season, the opera will be performed in Melbourne in April/May and the same production will later travel to Europe to the Edinburgh International Festival in September. A new production is being planned in Germany, where the work will be conducted by Simone Young at the Hamburg Staatsoper in September 2010.
> Read the articles and see the photo essays on the AMC website.
Event details
Brett Dean & Amanda Holden: Bliss
World
premiere: Sydney Opera House 12 March 2010
Opera
Australia - directed by Neil Armfield, conducted by Elgar
Howarth
Sydney season (Sydney Opera House) 12-30 March - details
Melbourne season (The Arts Centre) 20 April - 1 May - details
Bliss in Edinburgh - details
Further links
Brett Dean - AMC
profile
Opera Australia - Bliss
'Bliss' - a review by Peter McCallum in
The Sydney Morning Herald
'Compelling mutation of a Peter Carey
masterwork' - a review by Murray Black in The
Australian
'Making sense of music and text with Neil
Armfield' - article (Opera Australia website)
Finding the lightness in Harry Joy -
interview with Peter Coleman-Wright (Opera Australia website)
David on David in Bliss - interview
with David Corcoran (Opera Australia website)
More Bliss work details - Boosey & Hawkes website
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Subjects discussed by this article:
- Bliss by Brett Dean and Amanda Holden
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