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JULIAN LANGDON, CASEY BENNETTO AND GILLIAN COSGRIFF
Lorelei
Victorian Opera presents
Lorelei
OPERATIC CABARET
Music Julian Langdon, Casey Bennetto and Gillian Cosgriff
Lyrics Casey Bennetto and Gillian Cosgriff
Orchestration Julian Langdon
Concept Ali McGregor
Musical Director Phoebe Briggs
Director and Dramaturg Sarah Giles
Set and Costume Designer Marg Horwell
Lighting Designer Paul Jackson
Sound Designer Jim Atkins
CAST
Lorelei A Dimity Shepherd
Lorelei B Ali McGregor
Lorelei C Antoinette Halloran
Victorian Opera Chamber Orchestra
30 June - 2 July
Palais Theatre, St Kilda
World premiere, Saturday 3 November 2018, The Coopers Malthouse
Running time is approximately 75 minutes, no interval
Sung in English
Production Artistic Director’s Message
PRODUCTION TEAM Acknowledgements New Australian work is at the core of collaboration with Casey Bennetto and
Victorian Opera’s mission to reimagine Gillian Cosgriff to make this startling
Stage Manager Andrea Corish Performer Jillian Green
the potential of opera and musical work, part opera, part cabaret, which
Assistant Stage Manager Erin Handford CVP theatre, for everyone. Among the 32 revisits this classic story and invests it
System Sounds new works that Victorian Opera has with a contemporary accent.
Costume Supervisor Mel Serjeant
Resolution X commissioned and presented since
The result is lively, funny, sad and
Onset Arts 2005, Lorelei made one of the biggest
humane, and is given a unique energy
Music Staff splashes. Following its world premiere
by the trio of divas – Ali McGregor,
Photography credits in 2018, it received two Green Room
Repetiteur Phillipa Safey Antoinette Halloran and Dimity
Pia Johnson (p. 2, 9, 15) Awards, several major nominations, and
Shepherd who have, each in their own
now a third return season.
Bri Hammond (p. 6) right, made remarkable contributions
Orchestra With its spectacular design and widely to Australian theatre. The great novelist
Jade Ferguson (p. 14, 22)
engaging music and lyrics, Lorelei is an Joseph Conrad once said, ‘the value of
Violin 1 Jessica Oddie Craig Fuller (p.16) incredibly alluring operatic cabaret and a sentence is in the personality which
Violin 2 Cameron Jamieson indeed an ancient myth for modern utters it’ and this is particularly true
Costume illustrations times. It is a proud moment to welcome for our version of Lorelei. Prepare to
Viola Suying Aw
Marg Horwell (p. 14 - 15) it back following significant popular be seduced, surprised and, above all,
Cello Nils Hobiger
demand. delighted.
Bass Mark Elton Production icons
Hipworth (p. 1, 20, 22) Myth is inseparable from the history Welcome and enjoy.
Flute / Piccolo Kim Falconer of opera. The first titles, such as Orfeo
Oboe / Cor Anglais Rachel Curkpatrick and Il ritorno d’Ulisse, were all from
the literature of Greek myth, and this RICHARD MILLS
Clarinet / Bass Clarinet Lachlan Davidson
matter of Greece has been a deep Artistic Director, Victorian Opera
Guitar Doug de Vries well of resource for opera ever since,
Percussion Arwen Johnston right up to our own times – Henze’s
Percussion Kaylie Melville The Bassarids and my own Love of the
Nightingale, for example.
Harp Julie Raines
The story of the sirens – appropriated
by the Germans and put in the Rhine –
Season Staff a story of feminine allure has featured
both in opera and concert (Debussy’s
Surtitle Operator Timothy Mallis
Sirènes from his Nocturnes). It has a rich
Dresser Carla Noto provenance, which inspired our version
Dresser Andrew Dessmann created by composer Julian Langdon in
Wardrobe Nicole Serjeant
Wigs Drew-Elizabeth Johnstone
Deputy Head LX Nathan Gummow
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Musical Director’s Note Director’s Note
The opportunity to be a part of an the three voices conjure up a vivid A story. About a young boy on an Is there a scene where there are two
inspired and relevant work comes up all soundscape. Combined with incisive, adventure. Off to discover the world. female characters?
too rarely so when this particular one poignant and witty lyrics, the three Falls in love. Has children. Grows old.
Do you know their names?
came up I jumped at the chance to be Lorelei take us on a wild ride down the Dies.
involved. Having long admired the work River Rhine with many a twist and turn Do they talk about something other
This story becomes a story not just
of Casey Bennetto, Julian Langdon and along the way. than a man?
about this boy, but about humanity;
Gillian Cosgriff, this was an exciting
Bringing such an exciting and necessary about what it means to be human. If you say yes to all three questions the
prospect right from the start.
work to life has been a lively and work has passed the test.
Take another story.
The creation of a show around the thought-provoking process. Many operas, plays and films fail this
combination of our three incredible About a young girl on an adventure. Off
test.
singing actresses meant that there were It’s been a huge pleasure to be part of to discover the world. Falls in love. Has
endless possibilities in terms of dramatic this creative team and to revisit this children. Grows old. Dies. I point this out because these things are
and musical styles for the composers show in 2021 both here and in Brisbane. important.
This story ends up being about
and librettists to explore. womanhood. About what it means to be We learn so much about our humanity
a woman. Perhaps about motherhood. from the stories we tell, and if we don’t
From the shimmering opening sequence PHOEBE BRIGGS interrogate the kind of stories we’re
of layered rhythms and lush harmonies I think a lot about this. About how
Musical Director telling, the kind of characters we’re
through to tango, pop and Latin men represent humanity and women
seeing, we have no hope of moving
numbers, Julian’s incredibly inventive represent their gender.
forward.
orchestration and evocative use of
I think a lot about it when I read
It may seem trivial that the caterpillar in
stories to my children. So many male
a children’s book is male, but these are
pronouns. So many stories about little
the building blocks of a society where
boys.
inequality is so neatly stitched into the
And I think about it when I read the fabric that we often don’t even notice
classics. So many female characters it.
authored by men; women defined
Lorelei presented us the chance to
through the eyes of men.
unpick this stitching and take another
There is a very famous test called the look at the stories we take for granted.
Bechdel test. It is a test that can be
applied to any play, film or opera. To
pass this test you must say yes to the SARAH GILES
following three questions: Director
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The Lorelei - In Legend
The Lorelei in German lore is a siren The comb she holds is golden,
of distracting beauty said to sit atop a She sings a song as well
particular rock at the edge of the River
Whose melody binds an enthralling
Rhine, singing to lure sailors to their
doom. When she was a human woman And overpowering spell.
her lover was faithless, so in despair In his little boat, the boatman
she threw herself into the river and was Is seized with a savage woe,
transformed into a siren whose voice He’d rather look up at the mountain
pulled men under her spell and onto the
rocks. Her name comes from the name Than down at the rocks below.
of that echoing rock on the southern
bank of the Rhine – Lurlei. From ‘The Lorelei’
English translation of the poem by
In Clemens Brentano’s 1801 ballad Heinrich Heine, 1824. Translated by A.Z.
‘Zu Bacharach am Rheine’ a woman Foreman.
called Lore Ley accused of bewitching
and murdering men is on her way to
a convent but falls to her death from
this rock, leaving only the trace of her
name behind. The fatal allure of this
creature and her unearthly song was
defined further in an 1824 poem by
Heinrich Heine, Die Lorelei which has
since been set to music by more than
25 composers. The area where this
rock is located - Rhine Gorge at Sankt
Goarshausen, was actually one of the
deepest and most dangerous points of
the River Rhine.
The song attributed to the Lorelei was
probably drawn from a combination of
sounds including the currents of the
Rhine and a nearby waterfall, amplified
by the echo of the rock, leading to
the murmuring rumoured to be the
dangerous song of the siren.
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Creative Team
BMus (University of Melbourne). Opera Australia music staff
Julian graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with an 2002 – 2012, Head of Music at Victorian Opera since October
honours degree in practical composition and was awarded the 2012. For Victorian Opera, Phoebe has conducted Sunday in
first Melbourne Prize for Music Development Award. This led to a the Park with George, Play of Herod, Sweeney Todd, Cendrillon,
series of orchestral commissions and orchestration opportunities Four Saints in Three Acts (Green Room nomination), The
for major performing arts companies as well as recording sessions Sleeping Beauty (Green Room nomination), Lorelei (Melbourne
for feature film, television, and video games. Julian combines his and Brisbane), Black Rider (Helpmann nomination, VO/
love for traditional compositional processes using a pencil and Malthouse), A Little Night Music (Green Room nomination).
paper with the latest digital music making practices to produce Other companies: Opera in the Paddock (Opera Northwest),
work across a spectrum of interdisciplinary projects and events. assistant/cover conductor Don Pasquale (IFAC/OA, Tokyo),
The Magic Flute, Merry Widow, Fledermaus, The Pearlfishers, Così
Phoebe Briggs fan tutte, A Little Night Music, The Mikado (OA), Guys and Dolls
Julian Langdon
Musical Director (Ambassador Group).
Music and
Orchestration
Sarah is an award-winning opera and theatre director. Opera
Casey Bennetto is a writer, musician, performer, broadcaster directing credits include: O Mensch!, Pas à Pas – Nulle Part
and general reprobate. He is increasingly (appropriately) and Into the Little Hill, for Sydney Chamber Opera and Sydney
unknown for having written the musical KEATING! way back Festival. As a theatre director, Sarah has directed for Sydney
in 2005, but he’s been involved in a lot of other projects Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre
in the meantime, he swears: A Largely Fanciful History Of Company, Griffin Theatre and State Theatre of South Australia.
The Spiegeltent, Evening, A Swingin’ Bella Christmas, The She was Resident Director and Richard Wherrett Fellow at
Terminativity with Nick Caddaye, scoring The Katering Show, STC. Sarah won a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Director.
Get Krack!n, Lowdown, contributing to documentaries, Her production, Lorelei with Victorian Opera, was nominated
dramaturging, MDing, MCing, directing, playing in bands, for a Green Room Award for Best Direction of an Opera, five
and writing potted biographies of himself for theatrical Helpmann Awards including Best Direction of an Opera, and
Casey Bennetto programmes. He’s handsome and wise and undeniably sexier Sarah Giles won the Green Room Award for Best New Australian Work. It
than either Gillian Cosgriff or Julian Langdon. Director and toured to Opera Queensland in 2021.
Music and Lyrics
Dramaturg
Gillian is a singer, writer, actor, musician, and comedian Marg Horwell is a multi-award-winning set and costume
who graduated from the Western Australian Academy designer. She has designed for Salome (English National
of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2010 with a Bachelor of Opera); Avalanche (The Barbican); Unsere Kleine Stadt (Theater
Music Theatre. Theatre credits: Harry Potter And The Cursed Basel); Anthem (Performing Lines); Leviathan (Circa); The
Child (Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Picture of Dorian Gray, How to Rule the World, Lord of the Flies,
Harry Potter Theatrical Productions); Vivid White (Melbourne The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company); The
Theatre Company); Company (Watch This); Loving Truth, The House of Bernarda Alba, Lilith the Jungle Girl (with
Repeating (Vic Theatre Company); and The Pirates Of Sisters Grimm), Birdland, I Call My Brothers, Peddling, Cock,
Penzance (The Production Company). Television credits: ABC Constellations, Marlin (Melbourne Theatre Company); Because
Comedy Up Late, Upfront Gala, Tonightly, Offspring, House the Night, Melancholia, Bliss, Caravan, Blasted, Revolt. She Said.
Husbands, Fat Tony & Co., Ricketts Lane, Get Krack!n, and Back Revolt Again, The Testament of Mary, The Real and Imagined
Gillian Cosgriff In Very Small Business. Awards: Best Cabaret (Melbourne Marg Horwell History of the Elephant Man, I Am a Miracle, The Good Person
Music and Lyrics Fringe), Green Room Award Writing (Cabaret), Green Room Set and Costume of Szechuan (Malthouse Theatre). Awards: 2005, 2007, 2009,
Award Artiste (Cabaret), Green Room Award Original Songs Designer 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019 Green Room Awards, 2013 Sydney
(Cabaret), Green Room Award New Australian Work (Opera). Theatre Awards.
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Cast
Paul Jackson is a multi-award-winning designer who has worked Dimity’s appearances for Victorian Opera include Green Room
with Australia’s leading arts organisations and internationally, Award winning performances in the premiere season of Lorelei,
lecturing in design at the University of Melbourne, RMIT Cherubino in Marriage Of Figaro, Orphee in Orphee et Eurydice,
University and the Victorian College of the Arts. His work has Alice in Through The Looking Glass, Arsamene in Xerxes, Nireno
featured in festivals and programmes in the United States, Asia, in Julius Caesar, Flora in Traviata, Beggar Woman in Sweeney
Europe and the United Kingdom. Paul’s recent work includes; Todd, Helpmann and Greenroom Award nominated Lucy in
Cassandra / Echo & Narcissis (Victorian Opera); Lorelei (Opera Threepenny Opera, Clara in Midnight Son, roles in Banquet Of
Queensland). Was a Gilbert Spottiswood Churchill Fellow, and Secrets, The Riders, Nixon In China and Sunday In The Park With
was an Artistic Associate at Malthouse Theatre from 2007–2013. George. Other roles include, for Opera Australia, Cherubino
He has won a Helpmann Award, seven Green Room Awards, two and Rosina in Barber Of Seville, and Carmen, most recently
Sydney Theatre Award, three APDG awards and a Critics’ Award in the current 2021 touring production, roles for Opera
Paul Jackson for Theatre in Scotland. He is both a Churchill and an Australia Dimity Shepherd Queensland and Chamber Made Opera, Kätchen in The Black
Lighting Designer Council Fellow. Lorelei A Rider for The Malthouse and the title role in The Ghost Wife
at the Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and London’s BITE02
festivals.
Jim Atkins designs and mixes sound for a host of live, installed Ali McGregor is a Melbourne based soprano. She started her
and recorded situations nationally and internationally. Recent career as a principal soprano with Opera Australia performing
highlights include The Pearl Fishers, Victorian Opera (Sydney over 26 roles, she has most recently performed Desirée in A
Myer Music Bowl); Australian Ballet Summertime Gala (MCA); Little Night Music for Victorian Opera. As an award winning
Cassandra / Echo & Narcissis (Victorian Opera); Four Winds cabaret performer she has performed everywhere from
Festival (Bermagui); One Infinity (Melbourne, Sydney and Glastonbury to Carnegie Hall and was Artistic Director of
Perth Festivals); Pleasure Garden (Sydney Festival, Norfolk and Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2016-2018. She was nominated
Norwich Festival, City of London Culture Mile), 24 Reasons for an ARIA award in 2014 and in 2015 was awarded a Green
to Party (Kate Ceberano /Adelaide Symphony Orchestra); Room Award for her contribution to cabaret. Most recently Ali
Setan Jawa (AsiaTOPA/ Humboldt Forum Kultur, Berlin); won a Helpmann Award for her cabaret show Yma Sumac - The
Between 8&9 (Chamber Made, Castlemaine Festival, Chengdu Peruvian Songbird after successful seasons in Adelaide and the
Jim Atkins China); National Geographic, Symphony for our World (Adelaide Ali McGregor Sydney Opera House.
Sound Designer Festival); Carmen in the Square (State Opera South Australia); Lorelei B
Absolute Bird, Sounds of the Outback (City of London Sinfonia);
One of Australia’s most accomplished and best-loved sopranos,
Antoinette Halloran performs regularly with all the major
Australasian opera companies and symphony orchestras. In
2020/2021, she sings Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd and Olive
in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll for State Opera of South
Australia and Lorelei for Opera Queensland and Victorian
Opera. Recent engagements for Opera Australia and the
state opera companies include the title roles in Tosca, Madama
Butterfly, The Merry Widow and Rusalka, Lady Macbeth
(Macbeth), Mrs Lovett (Sweeney Todd), Mimi (La bohème), Stella
in A Streetcar Named Desire (Green Room Award) and Fata
Antoinette Halloran Morgana (The Love for Three Oranges). She has also appeared
Lorelei C as Associate Artist for Jose Carreras, Nick Cave and Elvis
Costello.
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Help our young artists bridge the divide
Victorian Opera is proud to offer you the opportunity to support our new Youth Orchestra Official Partner Media Partners
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For the first time, we will bring together a talented group of young instrumentalists and
singers, aged 15 – 25 years, to present Franz Schubert’s The Friends of Salamanca.
This specially designed program, which builds on our commitment to education, will Supply Partners Corporate Member
provide concentrated training in orchestral accompanying with solo and vocal ensemble
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These promising and emerging performers will experience the benefits of engagement with
the literature of opera and fine music.
Victorian Opera has received a generous gift from committed patron Professor Emeritus
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raise a further $10,000 to help fund the project. Your support will help bring this inaugural
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