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JULIAN LANGDON, CASEY BENNETTO AND GILLIAN COSGRIFF Lorelei Victorian presents Lorelei

OPERATIC CABARET

Music Julian Langdon, Casey Bennetto and Gillian Cosgriff Lyrics Casey Bennetto and Gillian Cosgriff Orchestration Julian Langdon Concept Ali McGregor

Musical Director Phoebe Briggs Director and Dramaturg Sarah Giles Set and Costume Designer Marg Horwell Paul Jackson Sound Designer Jim Atkins

CAST

Lorelei A Dimity Shepherd Lorelei B Ali McGregor Lorelei C

Victorian Opera Chamber Orchestra

30 June - 2 July , St Kilda

World premiere, Saturday 3 November 2018, The Coopers Malthouse Running time is approximately 75 minutes, no interval Sung in English Production Artistic Director’s Message PRODUCTION TEAM Acknowledgements New Australian work is at the core of collaboration with Casey Bennetto and Victorian Opera’s mission to reimagine Gillian Cosgriff to make this startling Performer Jillian Green Stage Manager Andrea Corish the potential of opera and musical work, part opera, part cabaret, which CVP Assistant Stage Manager Erin Handford theatre, for everyone. Among the 32 revisits this classic story and invests it System Sounds Costume Supervisor Mel Serjeant new works that Victorian Opera has with a contemporary accent. Resolution X commissioned and presented since The result is lively, funny, sad and Onset Arts 2005, Lorelei made one of the biggest humane, and is given a unique energy splashes. Following its world premiere Music Staff by the trio of divas – Ali McGregor, Photography credits in 2018, it received two Green Room Antoinette Halloran and Dimity Repetiteur Phillipa Safey Awards, several major nominations, and Pia Johnson (p. 2, 9, 15) Shepherd who have, each in their own now a third return season. Bri Hammond (p. 6) right, made remarkable contributions Orchestra With its spectacular design and widely to Australian theatre. The great novelist Jade Ferguson (p. 14, 22) engaging music and lyrics, Lorelei is an Joseph Conrad said, ‘the value of Violin 1 Jessica Oddie Craig Fuller (p.16) incredibly alluring operatic cabaret and a sentence is in the personality which Violin 2 Cameron Jamieson indeed an ancient myth for modern utters it’ and this is particularly true Costume illustrations Viola Suying Aw times. It is a proud moment to welcome for our version of Lorelei. Prepare to Marg Horwell (p. 14 - 15) it back following significant popular be seduced, surprised and, above all, Cello Nils Hobiger demand. delighted. Bass Mark Elton Production icons Hipworth (p. 1, 20, 22) Myth is inseparable from the history Welcome and enjoy. Flute / Piccolo Kim Falconer of opera. The first titles, such as Orfeo Oboe / Cor Anglais Rachel Curkpatrick and Il ritorno d’Ulisse, were all from RICHARD MILLS Clarinet / Bass Clarinet Lachlan Davidson the literature of Greek myth, and this matter of Greece has been a deep Artistic Director, Victorian Opera Guitar Doug de Vries well of resource for opera ever since, Percussion Arwen Johnston right up to our own times – Henze’s Percussion Kaylie Melville The Bassarids and my own Love of the Nightingale, for example. Harp Julie Raines The story of the sirens – appropriated by the Germans and put in the Rhine – Season Staff a story of feminine allure has featured both in opera and concert (Debussy’s Surtitle Operator Timothy Mallis Sirènes from his Nocturnes). It has a rich Dresser Carla Noto provenance, which inspired our version Dresser Andrew Dessmann created by composer Julian Langdon in Wardrobe Nicole Serjeant Wigs Drew-Elizabeth Johnstone Deputy Head LX Nathan Gummow

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The opportunity to be a part of an the three voices conjure up a vivid A story. About a young boy on an Is there a scene where there are two inspired and relevant work comes up all soundscape. Combined with incisive, adventure. Off to discover the world. female characters? too rarely so when this particular one poignant and witty lyrics, the three Falls in love. Has children. Grows old. Do you know their names? came up I jumped at the chance to be Lorelei take us on a wild ride down the Dies. involved. Having long admired the work River Rhine with many a twist and turn Do they talk about something other This story becomes a story not just of Casey Bennetto, Julian Langdon and along the way. than a man? about this boy, but about humanity; Gillian Cosgriff, this was an exciting about what it means to be human. If you say yes to all three questions the prospect right from the start. Bringing such an exciting and necessary work has passed the test. work to life has been a lively and Take another story. of a show around the thought-provoking process. Many , plays and films fail this About a young girl on an adventure. Off combination of our three incredible test. singing actresses meant that there were It’s been a huge pleasure to be part of to discover the world. Falls in love. Has endless possibilities in terms of dramatic this creative team and to revisit this children. Grows old. Dies. I point this out because these things are important. and musical styles for the composers show in 2021 both here and in Brisbane. This story ends up being about and librettists to explore. womanhood. About what it means to be We learn so much about our humanity a woman. Perhaps about motherhood. from the stories we tell, and if we don’t From the shimmering opening sequence PHOEBE BRIGGS interrogate the kind of stories we’re of layered rhythms and lush harmonies I think a lot about this. About how Musical Director telling, the kind of characters we’re through to tango, pop and Latin men represent humanity and women seeing, we have no hope of moving numbers, Julian’s incredibly inventive represent their gender. forward. orchestration and evocative use of I think a lot about it when I read It may seem trivial that the caterpillar in stories to my children. So many male a children’s book is male, but these are pronouns. So many stories about little the building blocks of a society where boys. inequality is so neatly stitched into the And I think about it when I read the fabric that we often don’t even notice classics. So many female characters it. authored by men; women defined Lorelei presented us the chance to through the eyes of men. unpick this stitching and take another There is a very famous test called the look at the stories we take for granted. Bechdel test. It is a test that can be applied to any , film or opera. To pass this test you must say yes to the SARAH GILES following three questions: Director

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The Lorelei in German lore is a siren The comb she holds is golden, of distracting beauty said to sit atop a She sings a song as well particular rock at the edge of the River Whose melody binds an enthralling Rhine, singing to lure sailors to their doom. When she was a human woman And overpowering spell. her lover was faithless, so in despair In his little boat, the boatman she threw herself into the river and was Is seized with a savage woe, transformed into a siren whose voice He’d rather look up at the mountain pulled men under her spell and onto the rocks. Her name comes from the name Than down at the rocks below. of that echoing rock on the southern bank of the Rhine – Lurlei. From ‘The Lorelei’ English translation of the poem by In Clemens Brentano’s 1801 ballad Heinrich Heine, 1824. Translated by A.Z. ‘Zu Bacharach am Rheine’ a woman Foreman. called Lore Ley accused of bewitching and murdering men is on her way to a convent but falls to her death from this rock, leaving only the trace of her name behind. The fatal allure of this creature and her unearthly song was defined further in an 1824 poem by Heinrich Heine, Die Lorelei which has since been set to music by more than 25 composers. The area where this rock is located - Rhine Gorge at Sankt Goarshausen, was actually one of the deepest and most dangerous points of the River Rhine.

The song attributed to the Lorelei was probably drawn from a combination of sounds including the currents of the Rhine and a nearby waterfall, amplified by the echo of the rock, leading to the murmuring rumoured to be the dangerous song of the siren.

P. 8 Victorian Opera 2021 Lorelei Creative Team BMus (University of ). Opera music staff Julian graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with an 2002 – 2012, Head of Music at Victorian Opera since October honours degree in practical composition and was awarded the 2012. For Victorian Opera, Phoebe has conducted Sunday in first Melbourne Prize for Music Development Award. This led to a the Park with George, Play of Herod, Sweeney Todd, Cendrillon, series of orchestral commissions and orchestration opportunities Four Saints in Three Acts (Green Room nomination), The for major performing arts companies as well as recording sessions Sleeping Beauty (Green Room nomination), Lorelei (Melbourne for feature film, television, and video games. Julian combines his and Brisbane), Black Rider (Helpmann nomination, VO/ love for traditional compositional processes using a pencil and Malthouse), (Green Room nomination). paper with the latest digital music making practices to produce Other companies: Opera in the Paddock (Opera Northwest), work across a spectrum of interdisciplinary projects and events. assistant/cover conductor Don Pasquale (IFAC/OA, Tokyo), , Merry Widow, Fledermaus, The Pearlfishers, Così Phoebe Briggs Julian Langdon fan tutte, A Little Night Music, (OA), Musical Director Music and (Ambassador Group). Orchestration

Sarah is an award-winning opera and theatre director. Opera Casey Bennetto is a writer, musician, performer, broadcaster directing credits include: O Mensch!, Pas à Pas – Nulle Part and general reprobate. He is increasingly (appropriately) and Into the Little Hill, for Sydney Chamber Opera and Sydney unknown for having written the musical KEATING! way back Festival. As a theatre director, Sarah has directed for Sydney in 2005, but he’s been involved in a lot of other projects Theatre Company, , Melbourne Theatre in the meantime, he swears: A Largely Fanciful History Of Company, Griffin Theatre and State Theatre of South Australia. The Spiegeltent, Evening, A Swingin’ Bella Christmas, The She was Resident Director and Richard Wherrett Fellow at Terminativity with Nick Caddaye, scoring The Katering Show, STC. Sarah won a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Director. Get Krack!n, Lowdown, contributing to documentaries, Her production, Lorelei with Victorian Opera, was nominated dramaturging, MDing, MCing, directing, playing in bands, for a Green Room Award for Best Direction of an Opera, five and writing potted biographies of himself for theatrical Helpmann Awards including Best Direction of an Opera, and Casey Bennetto programmes. He’s handsome and wise and undeniably sexier Sarah Giles won the Green Room Award for Best New Australian Work. It than either Gillian Cosgriff or Julian Langdon. Music and Lyrics Director and toured to Opera Queensland in 2021. Dramaturg

Gillian is a singer, writer, actor, musician, and comedian Marg Horwell is a multi-award-winning set and costume who graduated from the Western Australian Academy designer. She has designed for (English National of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2010 with a Bachelor of Opera); Avalanche (The Barbican); Unsere Kleine Stadt (Theater Music Theatre. Theatre credits: Harry Potter And The Cursed Basel); Anthem (Performing Lines); Leviathan (Circa); The Child (Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Picture of Dorian Gray, How to Rule the World, Lord of the Flies, Harry Potter Theatrical Productions); Vivid White (Melbourne The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company); The Theatre Company); Company (Watch This); Loving Truth, The House of Bernarda Alba, Lilith the Jungle Girl (with Repeating (Vic Theatre Company); and The Pirates Of Sisters Grimm), Birdland, I Call My Brothers, Peddling, Cock, Penzance (). Television credits: ABC Constellations, Marlin (Melbourne Theatre Company); Because Comedy Up Late, Upfront Gala, Tonightly, Offspring, House the Night, Melancholia, Bliss, Caravan, Blasted, Revolt. She Said. Husbands, Fat Tony & Co., Ricketts Lane, Get Krack!n, and Back Revolt Again, The Testament of Mary, The Real and Imagined Gillian Cosgriff In Very Small Business. Awards: Best Cabaret (Melbourne Marg Horwell History of the Elephant Man, I Am a Miracle, The Good Person Music and Lyrics Fringe), Green Room Award Writing (Cabaret), Green Room Set and Costume of Szechuan (Malthouse Theatre). Awards: 2005, 2007, 2009, Award Artiste (Cabaret), Green Room Award Original Songs Designer 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019 , 2013 Sydney (Cabaret), Green Room Award New Australian Work (Opera). Theatre Awards.

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Paul Jackson is a multi-award-winning designer who has worked Dimity’s appearances for Victorian Opera include Green Room with Australia’s leading arts organisations and internationally, Award winning performances in the premiere season of Lorelei, lecturing in design at the University of Melbourne, RMIT Cherubino in Marriage Of Figaro, Orphee in Orphee et Eurydice, University and the Victorian College of the Arts. His work has Alice in Through The Looking Glass, Arsamene in Xerxes, Nireno featured in festivals and programmes in the United States, Asia, in Julius Caesar, Flora in Traviata, Beggar Woman in Sweeney Europe and the United Kingdom. Paul’s recent work includes; Todd, Helpmann and Greenroom Award nominated Lucy in Cassandra / Echo & Narcissis (Victorian Opera); Lorelei (Opera Threepenny Opera, Clara in Midnight Son, roles in Banquet Of Queensland). Was a Gilbert Spottiswood Churchill Fellow, and Secrets, The Riders, Nixon In China and Sunday In The Park With was an Artistic Associate at Malthouse Theatre from 2007–2013. George. Other roles include, for , Cherubino He has won a Helpmann Award, seven Green Room Awards, two and Rosina in Barber Of Seville, and Carmen, most recently Sydney Theatre Award, three APDG awards and a Critics’ Award in the current 2021 touring production, roles for Opera Paul Jackson for Theatre in Scotland. He is both a Churchill and an Australia Dimity Shepherd Queensland and Chamber Made Opera, Kätchen in The Black Lighting Designer Council Fellow. Lorelei A Rider for The Malthouse and the title role in The Ghost Wife at the Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and London’s BITE02 festivals. Jim Atkins designs and mixes sound for a host of live, installed Ali McGregor is a Melbourne based soprano. She started her and recorded situations nationally and internationally. Recent career as a principal soprano with Opera Australia performing highlights include The Pearl Fishers, Victorian Opera (Sydney over 26 roles, she has most recently performed Desirée in A Myer Music Bowl); Australian Ballet Summertime Gala (MCA); Little Night Music for Victorian Opera. As an award winning Cassandra / Echo & Narcissis (Victorian Opera); Four Winds cabaret performer she has performed everywhere from Festival (Bermagui); One Infinity (Melbourne, Sydney and Glastonbury to Carnegie Hall and was Artistic Director of Perth Festivals); Pleasure Garden (Sydney Festival, Norfolk and Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2016-2018. She was nominated Norwich Festival, City of London Culture Mile), 24 Reasons for an ARIA award in 2014 and in 2015 was awarded a Green to Party ( /Adelaide Symphony Orchestra); Room Award for her contribution to cabaret. Most recently Ali Setan Jawa (AsiaTOPA/ Humboldt Forum Kultur, Berlin); won a Helpmann Award for her cabaret show Yma Sumac - The Between 8&9 (Chamber Made, Castlemaine Festival, Chengdu Peruvian Songbird after successful seasons in Adelaide and the Jim Atkins China); National Geographic, Symphony for our World (Adelaide Ali McGregor . Sound Designer Festival); Carmen in the Square (State Opera South Australia); Lorelei B Absolute Bird, Sounds of the Outback (City of London Sinfonia);

One of Australia’s most accomplished and best-loved sopranos, Antoinette Halloran performs regularly with all the major Australasian opera companies and symphony orchestras. In 2020/2021, she sings Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd and Olive in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll for State Opera of South Australia and Lorelei for Opera Queensland and Victorian Opera. Recent engagements for Opera Australia and the state opera companies include the title roles in , , and , Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Mrs Lovett (Sweeney Todd), Mimi (La bohème), Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (Green Room Award) and Fata Antoinette Halloran Morgana (The Love for Three Oranges). She has also appeared Lorelei C as Associate Artist for Jose Carreras, Nick Cave and Elvis Costello.

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Victorian Opera is proud to offer you the opportunity to support our new Youth Orchestra Official Partner Media Partners and Opera Project. For the first time, we will bring together a talented group of young instrumentalists and singers, aged 15 – 25 years, to present Franz Schubert’s The Friends of Salamanca.

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