The Children's Bach

The Children's Bach

__NOTOC__"The Children's Bach" is a chamber opera by the Australian composer Andrew Schultz to a libretto by Glenn Perry, based on the novella of the same name by Helen Garner. The work was commissioned by the Melbourne based group Chamber Made and their Artistic Director Douglas Horton with the aid of an Australia Council Project Fellowship; it premiered at the Malthouse theatre's Merlyn Theatreon Date|2008-06-20.

Roles

The work is of 80 minutes duration and is scored for a cast of six, and six instrumentalists (violin, cello, double bass, clarinet, percussion, piano).

ynopsis

Quote|"The Children’s Bach" is a contemporary story set on the banks of Merri Creek in inner-suburban Melbourne. Dexter and Athena live in a ramshackle house with no TV and an outside loo. But they are comfortably happy although life with their disabled son, Billy, has taken its toll. Against this family crashes another; Phillip, Elizabeth and Vicki: urbane, musical and stylish. And like most crashes there’s collateral damage.|from the program notes [cite web
url = http://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/whatson/malthouse.html
title = What's On
accessdate = 2008-06-21
year = 2008
publisher = Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne]

Notes

References

*cite web
url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/a-novel-approach-to-modern-opera/2008/06/16/1213468324402.html?page=fullpage
title = A novel approach to modern opera
accessdate = 2008-06-21
last = Usher
first = Robin
date = Date|2008-07-17
publisher = The Age

External links

*cite web
url = http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23910487-5013577,00.html
title = Between the lines
accessdate = 2008-06-28
author =
last = Burch
first = Peter
date = Date|2008-06-24
publisher = The Australian (Review)


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