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Featuring Geoffrey Lancaster, Larry Sitsky and mezzo-soprano Angela Giblin,
Prepare for a unique style of theatrics as early music world authority Geoffrey Lancaster and internally acclaimed composer/pianist Larry Sitsky mix up fortepiano and modern piano, actors and singers, in this fantastical treat for a strictly limited season of the lost art of combining speech with music.
Discard images of ham actors, distressed damsels and railway tracks. Venture inside four melodramatic vignettes where emotion, gesture, image and music bring to shuddering life bloody accounts of handsome men and scorned women, cautionary tales for young girls and Zen-like fables from the deepest Jade.
Evocative and enthralling, this unique program features outstanding Czech composers Benda and Fibich together with a world premiere from Australian composer Larry Sitsky. Tragic Greek myths warp into dark folk tales, as wicked voices meld with bewitching music.
In 2006 Geoffrey Lancaster was named Australian of the Year for the Australian Capital Territory, and was awarded the Order of Australia for service to music and music education.
In recognition of Larry Sitsky’s various achievements, the Australian National University awarded Sitsky its first Higher Doctorate in Fine Arts in 1997, and in 2001 he was named Artist of the Year.
The Canberra Times wrote of Angela Giblin’s performance of Pierrot Lunaire: “Angela Giblin excellently accomplished this highly demanding vocal line with fine assurance …the performance was a highly effective realization of this remarkable work.”
The Wicked Voice
FOUR MELODRAMAS FOR FORTE PIANO PIANO AND ACTORS
Music Directors Geoffrey Lancaster and Larry Sitsky
Directed by Diana Nixon and Caroline Stacey
Where: Street Two | THE STREET THEATRE, Childers Street, Canberra City West
When: August 29th - 31st
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