Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and Sydney Chamber Opera in association with Melbourne Festival
First performed at Carriageworks in Sydney 2-9 May, 2015.
“An impressive achievement”
“A work of beauty and meaning”
“An unqualified triumph”
Music by Elliott Gyger
Libretto by Pierce Wilcox
David Malouf’s novel Fly Away Peter is a contemporary classic. Elliott Gyger is an Australian composer at the height of his powers. They return to World War One in this centenary year to create a profound new contribution to Australian opera, with a libretto by SCO’s Pierce Wilcox.
Jim Saddler is a visionary young birdwatcher thrust into the nightmare of the Western Front. Fly Away Peter travels from a land of life to a panorama of horror through Jim’s voice of delicate insight.
This is a story of the Australian spirit that begins at peace, builds into tragedy, and ends in transcendence.
Photograph: Library of Congress
Biographies of Cast and Creative Team
- Conductor
- Jack Symonds
- Director
- Imara Savage
- Set & Costume Design
- Elizabeth Gadsby
- Lighting Design
- Verity Hampson
- Movement Director
- Lucas Jervies
- With
- Mitchell Riley, Jessica Aszodi, Brenton Spiteri
- Date & Time
- 7:30pm Weds 21, Fri 23, Sat 24 October 2015
- Venue
- Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne
- Tickets
- $30-48
- With Thanks To
- Keely Jobe - Carpenter
- Acknowledgements
- Sydney Chamber Opera wishes to acknowledge the donors who made Fly Away Peter possible
- Executive Producer
- Kim Williams AM
- Producers
- Martin Dickson, Hon Jane Mathews AO, Prof. Di Yerbury AO
- Associate Producers
- Andrew Andersons AO, William Brooks & Alasdair Beck, David Catterns QC, Jennifer Solomon
- Production Supporters
- Jim Alexander, Roger Cruickshank, Tony Jones, Josephine Key, Robert Mitchell
- Production Friends
- Stephen Burley SC, Rowena Cowley, Terry Matthews, Wendy Michaels
