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Palais Receives Restoration Funds ON STAGE The Spring 2010 newsletter of Vol.11 No.4 Palais receives restoration funds he 83-year-old The new Palais, heritage-listed accommodating nearly TPalais Theatre 3000 patrons on two in St Kilda is to be vast levels, premièred repaired and upgraded, on 11 November 1927. thanks to a $2.5 million Films were accompanied grant from the state by elaborate stage government. presentations and a The work will concert orchestra under include roof repairs, the direction of Harry upgrading of fire escape Jacobs. Following the ladders and refurbishment introduction of television, of the theatre’s flying the Palais switched to system. In addition live presentations; the there will be improvements Image: THA orchestra pit was to the theatre’s electrical enlarged and new wiring and switchboards. dressing rooms added. Environment and The Australian Climate Change Minister Gavin Jennings and under the current management arrangements Elizabethan Opera Company appeared at the Member for Albert Park Martin Foley with the City of Port Phillip. Palais in 1960. The theatre hosted many announced the grant when they visited the ‘This will clear the way for the City to further seasons of opera, as well as classical theatre on 29 September. finalise the lease arrangements with the ballet, folk and ethnic dance companies, ‘The Palais is one of Melbourne’s iconic operator and to commence its conversation musicals and concerts. buildings and largest capacity live with the St Kilda community and the Featured artists have included Harry entertainment venues and is a famous part of broader Melbourne community about the Belafonte, Eartha Kitt, Gracie Fields, the the St Kilda landscape. This funding will best use of this important area of public land.’ Seekers, Shirley Bassey, George Shearing, allow much-needed works to ensure its The present management of the Palais Rolf Harris, Shelley Berman, Ry Cooder, continued safe operation as an important celebrated the third anniversary of its Bette Midler, Debbie Reynolds, Johnny venue in the Melbourne entertainment and occupancy on 20 August by introducing a Mathis, Liza Minnelli and Peter Allen. arts scene,’ Mr Jennings said. new tag line: ‘Forever Live’. Jesus Christ Superstar played at the Palais Mr Foley said the announcement would ‘We hope it instils a feeling of confidence, in 1973 and 1976. Joan Sutherland appeared be well received by local community permanence, history and future as well as with the Australian Opera in The Merry Widow members who are looking forward being promoting that the Palais Theatre continues in 1979. engaged in determining the future of the to encourage diversity and a love of live The opening of the Arts Centre drew theatre and its immediate surrounds. performance,’ says CEO Neil Croker. many attractions from the Palais, but the ‘This important public site and heritage Palais Pictures (as it was originally called) theatre’s present capacity of 2854—the listed building deserves this significant public on St Kilda’s Lower Esplanade was designed greatest of any conventional theatre in contribution,’ he said, adding, ‘The cultural by Henry E. White. It replaced an earlier Australia—makes it a valuable and viable and entertainment precinct has taken off cinema destroyed by fire in 1926. concert venue. n Death of La Stupenda Heritage theatre defies Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE 7.11.1926–10.10.2010 oan Sutherland—‘La Stupenda— 1990, at the age of 63. She Christchurch chaos was, quite simply, the greatest made her final public hristchurch Christchurch and soprano of her era, just as Melba appearance in a gala Covent J Repertory Princess Margaret had been before her and—like Melba— the Garden performance of Die Theatre was hospitals, the most famous Australian of her era. Fledermaus on New Year’s Eve, C among the most Christchurch Town Born to Scottish parents in Sydney, 1990, in company with her spectacular casualties Hall and the Sutherland attended St Catherine’s friends Luciano Pavarotti and of the 7.1 Richter-scale Parkroyal Hotel. School in Waverley. Her mother, a Marilyn Horne. earthquake that shook He is officially a mezzo-soprano, had taken voice lessons After her retirement, the city on 4 September. ‘Canterbury hero’ but never considered making a career of Sutherland lived quietly at her Much of the and his bust is singing. Sutherland was 18 when she home in Switzerland. She theatre’s graceful Art displayed outside began studying voice with John and became closely associated with Deco façade, a feature the Christchurch Aida Dickens. In 1947 she made her the Cardiff Singer of the World of Kilmore Street for Arts Centre. début at the Eastwood Masonic Hall as competition. She served on the 77 years, was reduced The Repertory Dido in a concert performance of jury for five years and later to rubble, and for a Society’s first Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Her stage became its patron while the integrity of production in the début came in 1951 when she sang in Sutherland played Mother the rest of the structure hall was Lilies of Eugene Goossens’ opera Judith at the Rudd in the 1995 film Dad and was uncertain. the Field in Sydney Conservatorium. Dave: On Our Selection opposite Repertory Theatre’s The ruined façade of the Repertory Theatre, November 1929. It In 1951, after winning the Sun Aria Leo McKern and Geoffrey Rush. upcoming production of Noises Off was photographed on the morning after the has been its home ever since. Initially the and the Mobil Quest contests, she went In 1961 Joan Sutherland mothballed while the company’s earthquake. ßImage: Bob Hall. society rented the hall; it purchased the to London to study at the Royal College was made a CBE in the British management assessed the damage. property in 1950. of Music Opera School. She became a honours, and named Australian Shelley, head of English at Canterbury Fortunately, things were not as bad as Over the years there have been some ‘utility soprano’ at the Royal Opera of the Year. In 1975 she was in College and founder of the University they seemed. minor alterations to the interior, but in the House and made her début there on the first group of people to be Drama Society, suggested that hosting shows Behind what was left of the Mission-style main it retains its unique charm. The 28 October 1952 as the First Lady in The named Companions of the Order of Australia would provide extra income: he was also In 1965 Sutherland and Bonynge returned façade, the building was in remarkably good auditorium seats 430, but this can be Magic Flute. She sang as Clotilde in a few (AC). She was elevated to Damehood in founder of the Christchurch Repertory to Australia with the Sutherland–Williamson shape. Now a long-awaited heritage reduced for more intimate presentations. performances of Norma, with Maria Callas in 1979. In 1991 she received the Order of Society, and saw the hall as a potential Opera Company, an enterprise reminiscent restoration has been fast-tracked. Work has The Canterbury Repertory Theatre the title role. Merit In 2004 she received the Australia Post home. This made for an interesting charter: of the grand Melba tours of decades earlier, already started. Society (Inc.) is a non-profit incorporated In December 1952 came her first leading Australian Legends Award and two stamps along with providing a space in which and now regarded as a landmark in this The building started its life as Radiant Hall, society run by volunteers. role at the Royal Opera House, Amelia in A featuring her were issued. ‘Radiant Livers’ were able to ‘study and country’s operatic history. built for the Radiant Health Club in 1929. It is committed to staging five Masked Ball. Others followed, including She also received the Kennedy Center practise Christian psychology; to study and The leading tenor was the young Luciano The Radiant Health movement was productions a year, filling all the key roles Jennifer in the world première of Tippett’s Honor for outstanding achievement. practise diet; to study and practise solar Pavarotti. Sutherland sang in Lucia, Traviata, founded in New Zealand by Dr Herbert from its membership. It also rents the The Midsummer Marriage in 1955. Sutherland House and the Dame Joan plexus breathing’ there were to be ‘public Faust, Sonnambula and Semiramide. Sutcliffe, an English Freemason who was theatre at reasonable rates to other groups In 1954 Sutherland married Australian Sutherland Centre, both at St Catherine’s and private amusements and entertainments During the 1970s and ’80s, Sutherland interested in the new psychologies of Freud and organisations. conductor and pianist Richard Bonynge; he School, Waverley, and the Joan Sutherland of every description.’In short Radiant Hall continued to add dramatic bel canto roles to and Jung. He moved to Australia, where he The refurbished venue will have a new convinced her to explore the neglected bel Performing Arts Centre at Penrith, are was to ‘become the home of true music, her repertoire, such as Maria Stuarda, Lucrezia edited the Australian Psychological Society’s name, The Charles Luney Repertory canto repertoire. In 1957 his judgement was named in her honour. John Paul College in drama and modern thought.’ Borgia, the notoriously difficult Esclarmonde, magazine and gained a doctorate. At the Theatre, in recognition of the achievement vindicated when she appeared to great acclaim Queensland dedicated its newly established The hall’s architect was Harry Francis Anna Bolena, I masnadieri and Adriana Lecouvreur. invitation of the International New Thought of its famous builder. in Alcina and Emilia di Liverpool. The following facility the Dame Joan Sutherland Music Willis; he went on to design nearby New From 1974 to 1988 she sang regularly Alliance, a group of liberal spiritual thinkers, Noises Off has been rescheduled to open year she sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni Centre in 1991.
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