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'Lost & Found’s mission is to discover lost or forgotten works and present them in unique found spaces. This specially commissioned world premiere invites you into an old timber mill to discover a very different side to one of Australia’s iconic figures.
'Composer Luke Styles and librettist Peter Goldsworthy weave together the common myth with lesser known extraordinary facts about the politics, loves and quirks of Australia’s legendary bushranger. Cross dressing, pig stealing, bee keeping, opium smoking, devout republican supporting, armour wearing loyal family men — that’s just part of the story of the notorious Kelly gang.
'Superstar Australian baritone Samuel Dundas takes on the title role in a new-found space on the outskirts of Perth that provides the perfect setting, backdrop and link to Australia's frontier past.'
Source: Perth Festival.
Production Details
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Produced by Lost & Found Opera at No. 1 Mill, Jarrahdale, 15 - 19 February 2019, as part of the Perth Festival. A Perth Festival co-commission, presented in association with West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
Conductor: Chris Van Tuinen.
Director: Janice Muller.
Production Designer: Charles Davis.
Lighting Designer: Karen Cook.
Production Manager: Andrew Chambers.
Stage Manager: Tegan Sorenson.
Production Assistant: Andrew Mummery.
Wardrobe Supervisor: Sue Kerr.
Producer: Jemma Smoult.
Cast: Fiona Campbell (Ellen Kelly), Sam Dundas (Ned Kelly), Pia Harris (Kate Kelly), Robert Macfarlane (Steve Hart), Adrian Tamburini (Joe Byrne), and Matt James Ruben Ward (Dan Kelly).
Community Chorus: Anne Stephens, Olga Ward, Bronwen Channon, Patsy Brown, Jenny Fay, Sussanna Fleck, Tom Stephens, Peter Ormond, Bronwyn Elliott, Alicia Walter, Elena Mavrofridis, Penelope Colgan, Fay Edwards, Jennifer Sisson, Anna Boerner, Sue Hingston, Valerie Bannan, Gillian King, Charmaine de Witt, Ruth Lira, Arthur Tideswell, Malcolm Vernon, Stephen Turley, and J-P le Breton.
Musicians: Aidan Boase (Repetiteur), Jonathan Brain and Philip Waldron (Folk Band), Rebecca Glorie and Zak Rowntree (Violin), Ben Caddy (Viola), Rod McGrath and Nick Metcalfe (Cello), Andrew Sinclair and Christine Reitzenstein (Double Bass), Mary-Anne Blades and Michael Waye (Flute)Allan Meyer and Alex Millier (Clarinet), and Brian Maloney, Francois Combemorel, and Robyn Gray (Percussion).
