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Remembrance Saturday 18 April 7.30Pm Federation Concert Hall PECIAL S obart H Remembrance SATURDAY 18 APRIL 7.30PM FEDERATION CONCERT HALL Richard Mills conductor & arranger Remembrance Rodney Hall writer & director 1 Recruitment, Enlistment Peter Darby video compilation & lighting 2 Embarkation design 3 Training in Egypt David Hobson war correspondent 4 Gallipoli REDEFINING OPERA Artists from Victorian Opera*: 5 Trench Warfare Kate Amos 6 Homecoming BUILDING ITS FUTURE Carlos E Barcenas This concert will end at approximately 9pm. Nathan Lay Please note that there will be no interval. Elizabeth Lewis In April 2015, Victorian Opera performs Remembrance with the Emma Muir-Smith Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, a work dedicated to honouring the ANZAC spirit. Michael Petruccelli *Featuring students from the Master of Sharing the joy of singing through works new and old is our way of inspiring the community. Cristina Russo Music (Opera Performance), a collaboration Matthew Tng between Victorian Opera and the We hope to see you again Tasmania as we continue to redefine opera and help to build its future. Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, TSO Chorus University of Melbourne. Discover new worlds at victorianopera.com.au Supported by the Australian Government’s Anzac Centenary Arts and Culture Fund. This concert will be broadcast and streamed live throughout Australia and around the world by ABC Classic FM. We would appreciate your cooperation in keeping coughing to a minimum. Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off. 51 RICHARD MILLS RODNEY HALL PETER DARBY DAVID HOBSON Richard Mills has pursued a diverse career Rodney Hall has twice won the Miles Peter Darby is a Green Room Award- Tenor and composer David Hobson is one as a composer, conductor and artistic Franklin Award and twice been awarded nominated Lighting Designer, Head of Australia’s best known operatic, concert Electrician and Programmer. A graduate director which has seen him working the gold medal of the Australian Literature and stage performers, with a repertoire with almost all of the nation’s music Society. His libretto and scenario of the VCA School of Production, where that spans the gamut of musical styles from organisations. Currently Artistic Director Whispers, music by Andrew Ford, has he studied lighting design under John Baroque through to Pop. He made his of Victorian Opera, he has been Artistic been performed in every Australian state Comeadow, he works extensively with name with Opera Australia for his award- Director of the West Australian Opera and capital. Among his many productions are Victorian Opera in the role of Technical and Director of the Australian Music Program Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale and Peri’s Operations Coordinator, having worked winning performance as Rodolfo in for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Euridice. In the late 1970s he became on more than 40 productions. During this La bohème, directed by Baz Luhrmann. He has received Helpmann Awards for known as a recorder player and taught at time he has had wide experience under the He has gone on to become a well-regarded his work as a composer (Batavia) and the Canberra School of Music. He played guidance of acclaimed lighting designers classical performer, most recently a music including Paul Jackson, Matt Scott, Nigel conductor (Tristan und Isolde and The Love in the orchestra pit in Purcell and Handel theatre leading man starring in Chitty Levings, Phi Lethlean, Damien Cooper of the Nightingale). Other awards include operas for the UNSW Opera Company and Chitty Bang Bang, and a frequent television and Richard Vabre. His lighting design the Sir Bernard Heinze Award, Don Banks Young Opera. He was artistic co-director credits for Victorian Opera include Hansel performer on shows such as Carols By Fellowship and the Ian Potter Foundation of the Four Winds Festival in Bermagui, and Gretel, The Magic Pudding, Rush Candlelight, Carols in The Domain, Spicks Award for Established Composers. He was NSW. In 2013 he wrote and performed in Hour, The Play of Daniel, Brundibár, The and Specks, Dancing With the Stars and a Musica Viva’s Composer of the Year in 2008. a multi-media tribute to the painter Ian Cockatoos, The Little Sweep and the 2011 presenter on Foxtel’s arts and entertainment In 2009 he conducted the world première Fairweather, performed at the Brisbane Regional Tour Gala Performances. He was of his Passion According to St Mark with International Arts Festival. His play A channel, Studio. Much in demand as a Assistant Lighting Designer for Ariadne the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Return to the Brink was produced for the concert performer and recitalist, he has auf Naxos and Xerxes. His work for other TSO Chorus, and in 2010 his song cycle 1999 Melbourne International Festival. performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth companies includes Lighting Designer for Songlines of the Heart’s Desire received He wrote and compiled the texts for the the Australian première of Calvin Berger the II and sung at the AFL Grand Final. He is its European première at the Edinburgh spoken component of the five Twilight Musical; Waiting for Godot, The Logue of a major recording artist and has had many Festival. Many of his works have been Series performances for the Centenary of Thomas P T Lawrence (What Just Happened albums reach No 1 in the charts. His CD recorded and released on ABC Classics and Federation Festival in Melbourne. His books Productions); A Gala Night at the Opera French & Italian Arias was recorded with other labels, and he has made a significant have been published in the USA, UK and (MBEC); All Washed Up, Not Quite Right In the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and contribution as a composer and conductor Canada and in translation into German, The Head, A Fine Bromance (Bad Boys of conductor Marco Guidarini. His awards of recordings in the TSO’s Australian Music French, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Music Theatre). He was Assistant Lighting include Operatic Performer of the Year, Series, including Concertos for Strings Korean, Spanish and Portuguese. A former Designer on The God of Carnage (MTC) the Sydney Critics Circle Award, The Age (featuring his own music), Quamby (Peter Chairman of the Australia Council, he is and Showboat (Production Company). He is Sculthorpe) and Etruscan Concerto (Peggy a member of the Order of Australia and Vice President for the Australasian Lighting Performing Arts Award (for Best Performer Glanville-Hicks). He was made a Member of was awarded the Commonwealth Medal in Industry Association and a member of the in Opera) and an Australian Record Industry the Order of Australia in 1999. 2003. Association of Lighting Designers. Association (ARIA) Award. 52 53 REMEMBRANCE DIRECTOr’s NOTE This work creates a space of remembrance have lost today. Indeed, our soldiers were through music, story and images. We seek called “The Singing Soldiers” by C J Dennis The research for Remembrance to commemorate the heroism of the Anzacs in The Moods of Ginger Mick from 1916: began with the discovery of through recollection of their origin in a They wuz singin’ in the troop ship, they irreverent versions of popular tunes futile evil war, in which Australian manhood wuz singin’ in the train; When they left of the day, as sung by the troops was often wasted and destroyed through TSO CHORUS their land be’ind ‘em they wuz shoutin’ themselves. From that initial idea British incompetence and a British view a refrain, An’ I’ll bet they ‘ave a chorus, the scope of the show took its that the working class, and particularly the gay and glad in greetin’ us, When their free-flowing form – as an interplay Australian working class, was expendable in bit of scrappin’s over, an’ they lob back The TSO Chorus is an auditioned group of the service of empire. of scenes “at the front” with scenes ‘ome again...An’ the blokes that ain’t approximately 70 voices. June Tyzack has “at home”. Despite the defeat of Gallipoli, the returnin’ – blokes that’s paid the biggest been Chorusmaster since 2001 and she actions of those who served there made a price, They go singin’ singin’ singin’ to The amazing courage and resilience is supported by Assistant Chorusmaster statement of understated laconic heroism, the Gates uv Paradise. of the fighting men and the field Andrew Bainbridge. Founded in 1992 to coloured with a fatalistic and grimly Just three years previously, in his For hospital staff held good right humorous bravery, which bore death Australia and Other Poems, Henry Lawson present concert performances of opera, the through the war. So, the narrative and suffering without complaint and also imagined Australia as a nation of singers: TSO Chorus in its first five years performed developed to explore this idea respected the Turkish foe, and expressed “...glorious were the songs we sung, In La traviata, La bohème, Madama Butterfly, as a tribute to all the services on this through many kind gestures in the heat those grand old days when hopes were Carmen and La cenerentola. Since then the land, sea and air throughout the of war. We also commemorate the terrible high.” entire conflict (rather than singling battles of the Somme and the Western repertoire has broadened to include the Front, the compassion of the medical The Sydney Daily Telegraph reported in out any specific campaign). The requiems of Mozart, Fauré, Brahms and staff, and the stark contrast between 1916: result is a three-layered interplay Sculthorpe; masses by Haydn, Puccini and the euphoric sense of the adventure of of action, music and documentary The Australians are, if not a nation of Schubert; and symphonies by Beethoven, enlistment, embarkation and training in musicians, at least a nation of singing still photographs. To these have Egypt, and the profound disillusion of Mendelssohn and Vaughan Williams.
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