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Stopera productions 1995 – 2005

1995

A Dinner Engagement
Three’s Company
Conductor: Andrew Greene
Director: Lindy Hume
ANU Arts Centre, Canberra 10 – 17 March

Lennox Berkeley
Anthony Hopkins

1996

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Hin und zurück
A Hand of Bridge
Angélique

Conductor: Russell Larkin
Director: Stuart Maunder
The Street Theatre, Canberra 27June-6 July

Claudio Monteverdi
Paul Hindemith
Samuel Barber
Jacques Ibert

1997

The Tsar has his photo taken
The Emperor of Atlantis
Conductor: Max McBride
Director: Stuart Maunder
The Street Theatre, Canberra 18 – 27 Sept

Kurt Weill
Viktor Ullmann

1997

Heinrich Heine - I, Fool of Fortune
Musical Director: Vivienne Winthe
Director: David Branson
Presented by the Goethe Institut, CIA & Stopera
The Street Theatre, Canberra 20 – 22 Nov

Play by Jonathan Lees
Music by Brahms, Liszt, Schubert and Schumann
arr by Vivienne Winther

1998

distressing the Diva
Musical Director: Vivienne Winther
Director: Nigel Kellaway
The Street Theatre, Canberra 11 - 13 June

Devised by Nigel Kellaway Music by Handel, Mozart and Rossini

1998

The Threepenny Opera
Musical Director: Vivienne Winther
Director: David Branson
Co-production by CIA and Stopera
The Street Theatre, Canberra 6 – 16 August

Kurt Weill &
Bertolt Brecht

1999

Ariodante
Conductor: Graham Abbott
Director: David Branson
Special Effects: erth
Choreographer: Vivienne Rogis
For the Canberra National Multicultural Festival
Stage 88, Commonwealth Park, Canberra 10 –12 March

George Frideric Handel

1999

Mavra
Renard
La cambiale di matrimonio
Musical Director: Vivienne Winther
Director: David Branson
Conductor (Renard): Piroska Varga
Choreographer (Renard): Vivienne Rogis
For the NGA exhibition “From Russia with Love"
The Street Theatre, Canberra 3 - 12 June

Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Gioacchino Rossini

 

 

1999

The Nameless Dead
Conductor: Andrew Koll
Artistic Director: Vivienne Winther
Premiere concert performance
For the Festival of Contemporary Arts
Gorman House Arts Centre, Canberra 15 October

Judith Crispin-Cresswell

2000

September Songs ~ A tribute to Kurt Weill
Mahagonny Songspiel
Musical Director: Vivienne Winther
Director: David Branson
The Street Theatre, Canberra 27 - 30 September

Music by Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht

2001

The Pet Shop
The Medium
Musical Director: Vivienne Winther
Director: David Branson
The Street Theatre, Canberra 5 – 8 September

Vittorio Rieti
Gian-Carlo Menotti

2001

Viva Verdi !
A celebration of the life and music of Giuseppe Verdi
Musical Director: Vivienne Winther
Director: David Branson
The Street Theatre, Canberra 28 Nov - 8 December

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Arr by Vivienne Winther
Scenario by Ditta Zizi

2002/
2003

Il filosofo di campagna
Musical Director: Vivienne Winther
Director: Caroline Stacey
The Street Theatre, Canberra 31 Oct – 9 Nov 2002
Castlemaine State Festival, Victoria
29 – 30 March 2003

Baldassare Galuppi &
Carlo Goldoni

2003

CANTATA
Médée

Pigmalion
Musical Director: Nigel Ubrihien
Director: Nigel Kellaway
The Street Theatre, Canberra 4 – 13 Sept

Devised by Nigel Kellaway
Louis Nicolas Clérambault
Jean-Philippe Rameau

2004

The Frog Prince – a fairytale opera for children
Musical Director: Peter West
Director: Vivienne Winther
With the Canberra Mandolin Orchestra
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
12 December

Owen & Elizabeth Hartford

2005

Jane Eyre
Conductor: Rick Prakhoff
Director: Caroline Stacey
The Street Theatre, Canberra 26 May – 4 June

Michael Berkeley &
David Malouf

Canberra Critics Circle Awards

  • 1997 for the 2 Shots season: The Tsar has his photo taken & Emperor of Atlantis
  • 1998 in association with the theatre company Culturally Innovative Arts (CIA) for the production Heinrich Heine - I, Fool of Fortune
  • 1999 for the outdoor festival production of Handel’s Ariodante
  • 2000 for September Songs, a tribute to Kurt Weill
  • 2001 for Maria Danielle-Sette’s performance as Madame Flora in The Medium
  • 2002 for the production Viva Verdi!; the National Gallery of Australia concert, Opera ~ The Grand Obsession; and the overall artistic achievement of Vivienne Winther, Stopera's artistic director.
  • 2003 for excellence of direction by Caroline Stacey and ensemble cast performance in Galuppi's The Country Philosopher
  • 2005 for excellence of performance, design and staging in the Australian premiere production of Jane Eyre by Michael Berkeley and David Malouf’s
  • 2005 Canberra Times Artist of the Year award to Stopera’s Artistic Director, Vivienne Winther, for her uncompromising vision and achievement in gaining national and international recognition for opera in the ACT.
   
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