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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Bliss
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Notes

  • Based on the novel Bliss by Peter Carey.

Production Details

  • Commissioned by the Australian Opera. Workshopped at the State Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria, [May, 2009.]
  • First produced at the Sydney Opera House, 12, 17, 20, 25, 27 and 30 March 2010. Director: Neil Armfield. Musical Director: Elgar Howarth. (This production broadcast live on ABC2, and into selected cinemas, on 17 March 2010.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Where Is the Great Australian Opera? Michael Halliwell , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 17 August 2018;

'In 1986, the Adelaide Festival staged an operatic adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning writer Patrick White’s 1957 novel Voss, a pivotal work in the Australian literary canon. The opera, with music by a leading figure of the classical music avant-garde, Richard Meale, and libretto by acclaimed novelist and poet, David Malouf, was conceived in the period leading up to the Bicentennial celebrations in 1988. It certainly tapped into the zeitgeist.' (Introduction)

New Opera in Australia : It's Not Over Till Senator Brandis Sings Steve Dow , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 19 March 2015;
'It’s hard enough to mount an Australian opera, let alone revive one. Ahead of the findings of the national opera review, we hear from the rabbits and the riders.'
Director Slates Backward-Looking Snobs, Phantoms of the Opera Matthew Westwood , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 2 November 2011; (p. 3)
Towards an Australian Art-Music Canon Joel Crotty , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 55 no. 10 2011; (p. 91-97)

"is there an Australian art-music canon? Does Australian music feature in any lists of 1001 works to be listened to before you die?' Joel Crotty.

Modern Opera's Literary Success Story Michael Halliwell , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 55 no. 10 2011; (p. 86-90)
Blissful Performance on Anti-Hero's Journey to Pixelated Hell Peter McCallum , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 March 2010; (p. 10)

— Review of Bliss Amanda Holden , 2009 single work musical theatre
Long Live Bliss a Joy Forever Michael Shmith , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 March 2010; (p. 16)

— Review of Bliss Amanda Holden , 2009 single work musical theatre
Untitled Elissa Blake , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 21 March 2010; (p. 20)

— Review of Bliss Amanda Holden , 2009 single work musical theatre
Finding Bliss at Southbank Michael Shmith , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 22 April 2010; (p. 23)

— Review of Bliss Amanda Holden , 2009 single work musical theatre
Novelist's Search for a Lost Soul Has Found New Glorious Success as Musical Theatre Hilary Finch , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Times , 4 September 2010; (p. 27)

— Review of Bliss Amanda Holden , 2009 single work musical theatre
Opera as Bliss and Hell Michael Shmith , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 11 May 2009; (p. 14)
Opera Australia Finds its Bliss Raymond Gill , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 11 September 2009; (p. 14)
The True History of the Bliss Gang Matthew Westwood , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 March 2010; (p. 6-7, 9)
A Long-Delayed Bliss Is Fulfilled At Last Bryce Hallett , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 March 2010; (p. 14)
An Ode to Joy Louise Schwartzkoff , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 7 March 2010; (p. 20)

Awards

2010 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia Best Opera Nominated for the 2009 Opera Australia production.
2010 nominated Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia Best New Australian Work Nominated for the 2009 Opera Australia production.
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