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National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths Reconsidered

National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths Reconsidered

Hardcover

Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera

Opera

ISBN10: 1472433270
ISBN13: 9781472433275
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 14 2017
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Opera has been performed in Australia for more than two hundred years, yet none of the operas written before the Second World War have become part of the repertoire, and it is only in the late 1970s and early 1980s that there is evidence of the successful systematic production of indigenous opera. The emergence of a thriving operatic tradition in contemporary Australia is inextricably enmeshed in Australian cultural consciousness and issues of national identity. In this study of 18 representative contemporary operas, Michael Halliwell elucidates the ways in which the operas reflect and engage with the issues facing contemporary Australians.

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