Stopera
| Stopera Archive |
Stopera, the professional opera company of the ACT region, has delighted Canberra and interstate audiences for the past ten years with its award-winning productions and concerts. Stopera’s diverse repertoire of full length and one-act operas includes eight Australian premieres, and extends from the Baroque delights of Handel to the cabaret idiom of Kurt Weill. Stopera productions and artists have received nine Canberra Critics Circle Awards, including the 2005 Canberra Times Artist of the Year award for the company’s Artistic Director, Vivienne Winther. The ten years of the company will be explored in this section. Stay tuned! |
Stopera productions 1995 – 2005
1995: A Dinner Engagement Lennox Berkeley
Three’s Company Anthony Hopkins
1996: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Claudio Monteverdi
Hin und zurück Paul Hindemith
A Hand of Bridge Samuel Barber
Angélique Jacques Ibert
1997: The Tsar has his photo taken Kurt Weill
The Emperor of Atlantis Viktor Ullmann
1997: Heinrich Heine - I, Fool of Fortune Written by Jonathan Lees
Music by Brahms, Liszt, Schubert and Schumann, arr by Vivienne Winther
1998: distressing the Diva Devised by Nigel Kellaway
Music by Handel, Mozart and Rossini
1998: The Threepenny Opera Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht
1999: Ariodante George Frideric Handel
1999: Mavra Igor Stravinsky
Renard Igor Stravinsky
La cambiale di matrimonio Gioacchino Rossini
1999 The Nameless Dead Judith Crispin-Cresswell
2000: September Songs ~ A tribute to Kurt Weill
Mahagonny Songspiel Kurt Weill
2001: The Pet Shop Vittorio Rieti
The Medium Gian-Carlo Menotti
2001: Viva Verdi ! ~ a celebration of the life and music of Giuseppe Verdi
Music by Giuseppe Verdi, arr by Vivienne Winther Scenario by Ditta Zizi
2002/3: Il filosofo di campagna (The Country Philosopher) Baldassare Galuppi
2003: CANTATA Devised by Nigel Kellaway
Médée Louis Nicolas Clérambault
Pigmalion Jean-Philippe Rameau
2004: The Frog Prince Owen & Elizabeth Hartford
2005: Jane Eyre Michael Berkeley & David Malouf