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OCTOBER 2026 - details soon
Melodrama Marathon
OPERAMUSICDRAMATHEATRE
“everyone is always in the middle of their own opera”
- Greta Gerwig
Australian Premiere
Hairdresser opera in 9 minutes
The wife of a hugely successful businessman luxuriates under the hands of her hairdresser, Angelino, bemoaning her tribulations.
Featuring
PHOEBE PAINE
with
flute
percussion
keyboard
cello
Australian Premiere
3-act mono-opera in 9 mins
Musing on the Shakespearean authorship conspiracy theory, this monodrama takes as a foundation the characterisation of Jeanne d'Arc in Henry VI Part 1, and adds commentary on aspects of authorial attribution. One baritone plays the roles of Shakespeare, Jeanne d'Arc, the French commanders, the English foe, and the tortured Thomas Kyd.
Featuring
JAMES BILLSON
with
Flute
Oboe
Clarinet in Bb
Bassoon
Winner, 1st Brixworth Music Festival International Competition for Women Composers (UK), 2018
Australian Premiere
Break up opera in 6 words and 3 minutes
SHE: I'm leaving
HE: Don't go.
HE: I'll change.
THE END
Featuring
PHOEBE PAINE
JAMES BILLSON
with
Clarinet in Bb
Cello
Percussion
Keyboard
Australian Premiere
Deadly sin in 6 minutes
An encounter between breezy holiday-makers and someone from another culture, in a painful predicament
Featuring
Woman
First Tourist
Second Tourist
Third Tourist
Violin 1
Violin 2
Cello
Piano
Australian work
Romance philosophy in 5 minutes
"All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings" - Denis Diderot
Featuring
AMANDA HARGREAVES
Violin 1
Cello
Piano
Australian Premiere
Plea for payment in 2 minutes
I’ve done all that you asked me to
I’ve done everything you wanted
pay me now
I’d like to go back home so please please
just pay me now
You think that it’s easy to do this?
Featuring
A SINGER
with
cello
Australian Premiere
Coffee in under 4 minutes
Indecision, coffee habit, courage...and a cute barista
Featuring
SOPHIE BISSET
violin
cello
piano
Australian Premiere
9 minutes
A woman awaits the knock of her lover on her door. The sense of anticipation...
The sensuousness of the waiting is more powerful for her, and for us, than the actual physicality of meeting.
Featuring
GENEVIEVE GRAY
violin
cello
percussion
Co-commissioned by LA Opera and the Fisher Center at Bard College.
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