Here are four different war ballets created in Australia and New Zealand over eight decades.
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As an accomplished novelist, poet and essayist, David Malouf possessed a rare ability to work across genres with flair and elegance.
One of the few Australian novels dealing with the first world war, David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter, has been adapted for the opera stage – and the Sydney Chamber Opera’s production is a great success.
Sydney Chamber Opera’s production of David Malouf’s 1982 novel Fly Away Peter opens this weekend. It’s not the first opera adaptation of Australian literature – and there are reasons to hope it’s not the last.
… further from the far, safe place where I began, the green lands of my father’s farm, further from the last inhabited outpost of the known world, further from speech even, into the sighing grasslands…
Last year I re-read Johnno, David Malouf’s 1975 novel, with a group of students. I was intrigued to find out how young men and women living in Brisbane today would relate to a novel that has cast such…
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Associate Professor of Vocal Studies and Opera, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
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Associate Professor (Affiliate), Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate in Dance and Dance History Tutor, The University of Melbourne