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Text: Sue Smith (libretto)
Roles: Mrs Darling (soprano; Wendy (soprano); Peter Pan (mezzo/treble); Captain Hook (sprechstimme)
Smaller roles: drawn from the chorus
SSAA Chorus
clarinet (=bass clar), violin, harp, percussion (one player), electronics
Commissioned by Kim Williams for Gondwana Choirs
Text: Cathryn Strickland
Commissioned by the Australian National Academy of Music
First performance by Andrew Ford (speaker), Orchestra of Australian National Academy of Music conducted by Brett Dean, ANAM, South Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, 20 May 2010
Text: Sue Smith (libretto)
Roles:
Saskia van Uylenburgh (soprano)
Henrickje Stoffels (soprano)
Geertje Dircx (mezzo-soprano)
Govert Flinck (tenor)
Rembrandt van Rijn (bass-baritone)
Titus van Rijn (non-singing child)
Five other small roles may all be taken by the tenor who sings Flinck
N.B. Saskia and Hendrickje may be sung by the same soprano
1(=picc, alto fl)-0-1(=bass cl)-1(=contrabsn) / 1-0-0-0 / 1 perc / hp / 0-0-1-1-1
Commissioned by Victorian Opera
First performance by Victorian Opera;
Gary Rowley (Rembrandt van Rijn), Jacqueline Porter (Saskia van Uylenburgh/Hendrickje Stoffels), Roxane Hislop (Geertje Dircx), Paul Biencourt (Govert Flinck/Torquiunius/Judge etc.), Richard Gill (conductor), Talya Masel (director), Adam Gardnir (designer)
Merlyn Theatre, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne, 18 April 2009
Text: Margaret Morgan
Commissioned with funds from the Major Festivals Funding Initiative. Composed during the composer's time at Peggy Glanville-Hicks House, Paddington, Sydney.
First performance by Music Theatre Sydney, Gerald English (tenor), George Whaley (director), Eamon D'Arcy (designer), Adelaide Festival, The Opera Studio, Adelaide, 8 March 2000
Text: Margaret Morgan (libretto)
First performance by the Sydney Metropolitan Opera: Lyndon Terracini (Casanova), John Wregg (producer), Dan Potra (designer), Barossa International Festival, Red Floor Theatre, Angaston, South Australia, 6 October 1995
Text: Rodney Hall (libretto)
1(=picc)-1(=cor ang)-1(=bass cl)-0 / 1-0-1-0 / 1 perc / pno / 1-0-1-1-1
First performance by Gerald English (tenor & conductor) and the Seymour Group, Barrie Kosky (producer), Michael A R Anderson (designer), Seymour Centre, Sydney, 30 August 1990
Text: Barbara Blackman (poems)
First performance by Richard Moore and Annette Tesoriero, Bronwen Jones, Daryl Pratt and Lisa Moore, School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, 7 September 1990
Text: Graham Devlin (libretto)
Principal roles: Edgar Allan Poe (bass-baritone), Virginia Clemm (soprano), Elizabeth Poe (soprano), Rufus Griswold (bass), Frances Allan/Maria Clemm (mezzo-soprano), John Allan (baritone), other roles: S-Ms-A-T-Bar-B
2(=picc)-0-1(=bass cl)-0 / 1-2-2-0 / 1 perc / hp / pno(=cel) / elec org(=hpsd) / 0-0-0-2-1
First performance by the Australian Opera (National Opera Workshop): Garrick Jones (Poe), Keith Hempton (Griswold), Luise Napier (Virginia Clemm), Rosemary Gunn (Frances Allan/Maria Clemm), Bernadette Cullen, Nicola Ferner-Waite (Literary Ladies), Gregory Tomlinson, John Antoniou, Clifford Grant (Pressgang/Washington Senators), Gordon Kember (conductor), Brian FitzGerald and John Wregg (producers), Neil Tapner (designer), Broadwalk Studio, Sydney Opera House, 1 November 1985
First performance by Joan Dixon and Peter Seymour, the Theatre in the Mill, University of Bradford, 28 January 1982