Opera Australia's Bliss
Opera
12 - 30 March 2010
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The climax of Sydney's Summer Season is the world première of Bliss. Brett Dean and Amanda Holden's new opera, commissioned by Opera Australia, stars Peter Coleman-Wright as Harry Joy. Neil Armfield is the director for this important new work, with sets by Brian Thomson and costumes by Alice Babidge. Kate Champion choreographs, and British composer Elgar Howarth conducts.
Bliss is the first published novel of one of Australia's most admired novelists, Peter Carey. It is a darkly comic fable which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1981. It tells the story of Harry Joy, a Sydney advertising executive, who suffers a heart attack and is, technically, dead for several minutes. When he comes back to life the world looks strangely different, and after a while Harry begins to wonder if he is really alive, or whether he has died and gone to hell. Carey is one of only two writers, the other being J. M. Coetzee, to have won the Booker Prize twice.
Bliss opens on March 12.
Venue
Sydney Opera House @ Sydney Opera House, Sydney NSW, Australia
Price
Subscriptions now on sale. Single tickets on sale from 5 December 2009.
Bookings
Tel + 61 2 9318 8200/ ticketing@opera-australia.org.au