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LORELEI
JULIAN LANGDON, CASEY BENNETTO, GILLIAN COSGRIFF - Programme
VICTORIAN OPERA PRESENTS

                                                   LORELEI
                                           OPERATIC CABARET – NEW WORK

                                  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
                                                Assistant Director Cathy Hunt

                                                              CAST

                                                   Lorelei A Dimity Shepherd
                                                     Lorelei B Ali McGregor
                                                 Lorelei C Antoinette Halloran

                                             Victorian Opera Chamber Orchestra

                                               3–10 NOVEMBER 2018
                                       The Coopers Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre

                                  World premiere, Saturday 3 November 2018, The Coopers Malthouse
  Dimity Shepherd (Lorelei A),
  Ali McGregor (Lorelei B) and          Running Time is approximately 75 minutes, no interval
Antoinette Halloran (Lorelei C)                            Sung in English

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PRODUCTION
                PRODUCTION TEAM
          Production Manager Eduard Inglés
              Stage Manager Luke Hales
      Assistant Stage Manager Rebecca Neeson

                    MUSIC STAFF
               Repetiteur Phillipa Safey

                    ORCHESTRA
                  Violin 1 Peter Clark
              Violin 2 Cameron Jamieson
                  Viola Shani Williams
                  Cello Nils Hobiger
                   Bass Mark Elton
              Flute/Piccolo Tamara Kohler
         Oboe/Cor Anglais Rachel Curkpatrick
        Clarinet/Bass Clarinet Lachlan Davidson
                 Guitar Doug de Vries
              Percussion Arwen Johnston
               Percussion Kaylie Melville
                 Harp Yuko Tomonaga

               ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
               Performer Alex Aldrich
    Victorian Opera would like to thank Onset Arts.

                                                      Dimity Shepherd

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WELCOME                                                                         DIRECTOR’S NOTE
New Australian work is at the core of        cabaret, which revisits this classic story      A story. About a young boy on an             If you say yes to all three questions the
Victorian Opera’s mission to reimagine       and invests it with a contemporary accent.      adventure. Off to discover the world.        work has passed the test.
the potential of opera, for everyone.                                                        Falls in love. Has children. Grows old.      Many operas, plays and films fail this
                                             The result is lively, funny, sad and humane,
Reforming the great traditions of our                                                        Dies. This story becomes a story not         test.
                                             and is given a unique energy by the trio
artform to sing and speak with a twenty-                                                     just about this boy, but about humanity;
                                             of divas – Ali McGregor, Dimity Shepherd        about what it means to be human.             I point this out because these things are
first century Australian accent is just as
                                             and Antoinette Halloran who have, each                                                       important.
important to us as making accessible                                                         Take another story.
                                             in their own right, made such remarkable
the great literature of operatic heritage.                                                                                                We learn so much about our humanity
                                             contributions to Australian theatre.            About a young girl on an adventure. Off      from the stories we tell, and if we don’t
Indeed, it is the logical extension and
                                                                                             to discover the world. Falls in love. Has    interrogate the kind of stories we’re
completion of that process; one cannot       The great novelist Joseph Conrad once
                                                                                             children. Grows old. Dies.                   telling, the kind of characters we’re
flourish without the other. Tradition        said, ‘the value of a sentence is in the
                                             personality which utters it’ and this is        This story ends up being about               seeing, we have no hope of moving
nourishes and informs the present
                                                                                             womanhood. About what it means to be         forward.
moments of creativity, it enriches them      particularly true for our version of Lorelei.
                                             Prepare to be seduced, surprised and,           a woman. Perhaps about motherhood.           It may seem trivial that the caterpillar in
and provides both a guiding light and a
basis for comparison.                        above all, delighted by this fascinating new    I think a lot about this. About how          a children’s book is male, but these are
                                             work. Welcome and enjoy.                        men represent humanity and women             the building blocks of a society where
Myth is inseparable from the history of                                                      represent their gender.                      inequality is so neatly stitched into the
opera. The first titles, such as Orfeo and                                                                                                fabric that we often don’t even notice it.
Il ritorno d’Ulisse, were all from the                                                       I think a lot about it when I read stories
                                             RICHARD MILLS                                                                                Lorelei presented us the chance to
                                                                                             to my children. So many male pronouns.
literature of Greek myth, and this matter    Artistic Director, Victorian Opera                                                           unpick this stitching and take another
                                                                                             So many stories about little boys.
of Greece has been a deep well of                                                                                                         look at the stories we take for granted.
resource for opera ever since, right up                                                      And I think about it when I read the
to our own times – Henze’s The Bassarids                                                     classics. So many female characters
and my own Love of the Nightingale, for                                                      authored by men; women defined               SARAH GILES
example.                                                                                     through the eyes of men.                     Director
                                                                                             There is a very famous test called the
The story of the sirens – appropriated
                                                                                             Bechdel test. It is a test that can be
by the Germans and put in the Rhine – a
                                                                                             applied to any play, film or opera. To
story of feminine allure has featured                                                        pass this test you must say yes to the
both in opera and concert (Debussy’s                                                         following three questions:
Sirènes from his Nocturnes). It has a rich
provenance, which has inspired our                                                           Is there a scene where there are two
                                                                                             female characters?
version created by composer Julian
Langdon in collaboration with Casey                                                          Do you know their names?
Bennetto and Gillian Cosgriff to make                                                        Do they talk about something other than
a startling new work, part opera, part                                                       a man?

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MUSICAL DIRECTOR’S NOTE                                                               THE LORELEI – IN LEGEND
The opportunity to be a part of an        and Latin numbers, Julian’s incredibly      The Lorelei in German lore is a siren       by the echo of the rock, leading to
inspired and relevant work comes up all   inventive orchestration and evocative       of distracting beauty said to sit atop a    the murmuring rumoured to be the
too rarely so when this particular one    use of the three voices conjure up          particular rock at the edge of the River    dangerous song of the siren.
came up I jumped at the chance to be      a vivid soundscape. Combined with           Rhine, singing to lure sailors to their
involved. Having long admired the work    incisive, poignant and witty lyrics, the    doom. When she was a human woman            The comb she holds is golden,
of Casey Bennetto, Julian Langdon and     three Lorelei take us on a wild ride        her lover was faithless, so in despair      She sings a song as well
Gillian Cosgriff, this was an exciting    down the River Rhine with many a twist      she threw herself into the river and was    Whose melody binds an enthralling
prospect right from the start.            and turn along the way.                     transformed into a siren whose voice        And overpowering spell.
                                                                                      pulled men under her spell and onto the     In his little boat, the boatman
The creation of a show around the         Bringing such an exciting and necessary
                                                                                      rocks.                                      Is seized with a savage woe,
combination of our three incredible       work to life has been a lively and
singing actresses meant that there        thought-provoking process. It’s been a      Her name comes from the name of             He’d rather look up at the mountain
were endless possibilities in terms of    huge pleasure to be part of this creative   that echoing rock on the southern           Than down at the rocks below.
dramatic and musical styles for the       team.                                       bank of the Rhine – Lurlei. In Clemens
composers and librettists to explore.                                                 Brentano’s 1801 ballad ‘Zu Bacharach
                                                                                      am Rheine’ a woman called Lore Ley          From ‘The Lorelei’
From the shimmering opening               PHOEBE BRIGGS                                                                           English translation of the poem by
                                                                                      accused of bewitching and murdering
sequence of layered rhythms and           Musical Director                                                                        Heinrich Heine, 1824. Translated by A.Z.
                                                                                      men is on her way to a convent but falls
lush harmonies through to tango, pop                                                                                              Foreman.
                                                                                      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
    Sarah Giles (Director),                                                           probably drawn from a combination of
    Phoebe Briggs (Musical
    Director) and Paul Jackson                                                        sounds including the currents of the
    (Lighting Designer)                                                               Rhine and a nearby waterfall, amplified
                                                                   Ali McGregor

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BIOGRAPHIES

              JULIAN LANGDON                 CASEY BENNETTO                 GILLIAN COSGRIFF                 PHOEBE BRIGGS                    SARAH GILES                    MARG HORWELL
              Music and Orchestration        Music and Lyrics               Music and Lyrics                 Musical Director                 Director                       Costume and Set Designer

              Julian graduated from          Casey Bennetto is best         Gillian graduated from           Phoebe completed a               Sarah Giles is an award-       Marg is a multi-award-
              the Victorian College          known for writing the          the Western Australian           BMus at the University of        winning opera and theatre      winning Designer, she
              of the Arts with an            musical KEATING! and           Academy of Performing            Melbourne. A member of           director.                      has received seven
              honours degree in              worst known for blathering     Arts (WAAPA) in 2010 with        the Opera Australia music        Opera works include            Greenroom Awards, two
               practical composition         on at length about things      a Bachelor of Music Theatre.     staff 2002–2012, she was         O Mensch! by Pascal            Sydney Theatre Awards
               and was awarded the first                                    Theatre credits: Vivid           appointed Head of Music at                                      and multiple nominations
                                             everyone else in the room                                                                        Dusapin, libretto by
               Melbourne Prize for Music                                    White (Melbourne Theatre         Victorian Opera in October                                      for her work in Theatre,
                                             had worked out years                                                                             Friedrich Nietzsche, Pas à
               Development Award.                                           Company), Company (Watch         2012. For Victorian Opera,                                      Dance, Film and Opera.
                                             ago. Over the past three                                                                         Pas – Nulle Part by György
               This led to a series of                                      This); Loving Repeating (Vic     Phoebe has conducted
                                             months he’s also been                                                                            Kurtág, libretto by Samuel     Most recently she
               orchestral commissions                                       Theatre Company); and The        Sunday in the Park with
                                             writing a new musical with                                                                       Beckett and Into the Little    designed Set and
               and orchestration                                            Pirates of Penzance (The         George, Play of Herod,
                opportunities for            Sisters Grimm, scoring                                                                           Hill by George Benjamin,       Costumes for Salome
                                                                            Production Company).             Sweeney Todd, Cendrillon,        libretto by Martin Crimp all   (English National Opera),
                major performing arts        the second season of Get
                                                                            Television credits: Offspring,   Four Saints in Three Acts        for Sydney Chamber Opera       Blasted, Melancholia, The
                companies as well as         Krack!n and preparing for
                                                                            House Husbands, Fat Tony &       and The Sleeping Beauty.         and Sydney Festival.           Testament of Mary, The Real
                recordings sessions for      his role as Musical Director
                                                                            Co., Ricketts Lane and Get       She conducted Opera in the                                      and Imagined History of The
                feature film, television,    in the Circus Oz/Die Roten                                                                       As a theatre director
                                                                            Krack!n. She has toured          Paddock (Opera Northwest)                                       Elephant Man (Malthouse
                and video games. Julian      Punkte collaboration Rock                                                                        Sarah has worked with
                combines his love for                                       extensively with her solo        and was assistant/cover                                         Theatre), The House of
                                             Bang! which is literally                                                                         Sydney Theatre Company,
                traditional compositional                                   shows as a comedian              conductor for Don Pasquale                                      Bernarda Alba (Melbourne
                                             the next show on in this                                                                         Malthouse Theatre,
                 processes using a pencil                                   and cabaret performer.           (IFAC/OA, Tokyo), The                                           Theatre Company),
                                             theatre.                                                                                         Melbourne Theatre
                 and paper with the latest                                  Awards: Best Cabaret             Magic Flute, Merry Widow,                                       Common Ground (Chunky
                                                                                                                                              Company, Griffin Theatre
                 digital music making                                       (Melbourne Fringe), Green        Fledermaus, The Pearlfishers,                                   Move), Production Design
                                                                                                                                              and State Theatre of South
                 practices to produce                                       Room Awards for Writing,         Così fan tutte, A Little Night                                  for the short film Mrs
BIOGRAPHIES

                                                                                                                                              Australia.
                 work across a spectrum                                     Original Songs, and Artiste      Music, The Mikado (OA) and                                      McCutcheon, and costumes
                 of interdisciplinary                                       (Cabaret). She has recently      Guys and Dolls (Ambassador       Sarah was the Richard
                                                                                                                                                                             for The Resistible Rise of
                 projects and events. He                                    been cast in Harry Potter        Group). Phoebe received          Wherrett Fellow at Sydney
                                                                                                                                                                             Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre
                  is currently working on                                   and the Cursed Child, playing    a Helpmann Award                 Theatre Company in 2011
                                                                                                                                                                             Company).
                  an opera for children                                     at the Princess Theatre in       nomination for Best Music        and was Co-Resident
                  called Melisma’s Little                                   Melbourne from January           Direction for Black Rider        Director at Sydney Theatre
                  Book.                                                     2019.                            (VO/Malthouse).                  Company in 2013.
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DIMITY SHEPHERD                  ALI MCGREGOR                    ANTOINETTE HALLORAN               PAUL JACKSON                     JIM ATKINS
              Lorelei A                        Concept / Lorelei B             Lorelei C                         Lighting Designer                Sound Designer
              Appearances for Victorian        Ali McGregor started her        Helpmann Award-                   Paul has designed lighting       Jim Atkins designs and
              Opera include Cherubino in       career as a principal soprano   nominated in 2016, 2017 and       for most of Australia’s          mixes sound for a host
              Marriage of Figaro, Orphée       with Opera Australia            2018, Antoinette Halloran ‘s      leading performing arts          of live and recorded
              in Orphée et Eurydice,           performing over 25 roles                                          companies and has lectured       situations nationally and
                                                                               most recent engagements
              Alice in Through The
                                               and winning a Green Room        include the title role in Tosca   in design at the University of   internationally. Recent
              Looking Glass, Arsamene
                                               Award in 2004. She then         for West Australian Opera,        Melbourne, RMIT University       highlights include One
              in Xerxes, Nireno in Julius
               Caesar, Flora in Traviata,      ran away with the circus        Mrs Lovett in Sweeney             and the Victorian College        Infinity (Melbourne Festival);
               Beggar Woman in Sweeney         in the form of hit show         Todd for Victorian Opera          of the Arts. His work has        Black Rider (Victorian
               Todd, Helpmann Award            La Clique and has since         and New Zealand Opera,            featured in festivals and        Opera/Malthouse); En
               nominated Lucy in               performed everywhere from       associate artist for José         programmes in the United         Masse and Pleasure Garden
               Threepenny Opera and            Glastonbury to Carnegie         Carreras’ National Tour and       States, Asia, Europe and         (Sydney Festival/ National
               Clara in Midnight Son,          Hall. She was nominated for     concerts with the Sydney,         the United Kingdom. Paul         Sawdust New York); Armand
                roles in Banquet of Secrets,   an ARIA award in 2014 & in      Melbourne, Adelaide, West         was listed in The Bulletin’s     Van Helden (Melbourne
                The Riders, Nixon In China     2015 was awarded a special      Australian and Christchurch       Smart 100 for 2004, was          Symphony Orchestra);
                and Sunday In The Park         Green Room Award for her                                          the Gilbert Spottiswood          24 Reasons to Party (Kate
                                                                               Symphony Orchestras.
                With George.
                                               contribution to cabaret.        For Opera Australia,              Churchill Fellow for             Ceberano /Adelaide
               Also Cherubino, Carmen                                                                            2007 and was an Artistic         Symphony Orchestra); Setan
                                               Artistic Director for           Antoinette has sung the
               and Rosina in The Barber                                                                          Associate at Malthouse           Jawa (AsiaTOPA/ Humboldt
               of Seville for Opera            Adelaide Cabaret Festival       title roles in Madama
                                               from 2016 to 2018, she has      Butterfly and Rusalka, Mimi       Theatre from 2007-2013.          Forum Kultur, Berlin);
               Australia, roles for
                                               recently debuted a critically   (La bohème) and Stella (A         He has received a Helpmann       Between 8&9 (Chamber
               Opera Queensland and
               Chamber Made Opera,             acclaimed show about the        Streetcar Named Desire).          Award, six Green Room            Made, Castlemaine Festival,
                Katchen in Black Rider         iconic Peruvian soprano Yma                                       Awards, a Sydney Theatre         Chengdu China).
                                                                               Future engagements include
                for VO/Malthouse and           Sumac. In 2019, Ali returns                                       Award and two APDG
                                                                               Lady Macbeth and Mrs
                the title role in The Ghost    to Victorian Opera to star in                                     awards. Paul was awarded an
                                                                               Lovett in Perth and the title
                Wife at the Melbourne,         A Little Night Music.                                             Australia Council Fellowship
                Adelaide, Sydney                                               role in The Merry Widow in
BIOGRAPHIES

                                                                                                                 (Theatre) for 2017-2019.
                and London’s BITE02                                            Adelaide.
                 festivals.

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                                   in one of Sondheim’s most beloved and sophisticated musicals.                                                                            STEPHEN SONDHEIM

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                                   27 June – 6 July 2019 | Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse                                                                                 Book by
                                                                                                                                                                            HUGH WHEELER
                                   Heroic Bel Canto*                                                          Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
                                                                                                              Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman
                                   The best of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini                                 Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince

                                   Celebrate the inimitable art of bel canto with superstars Jessica
                                   Pratt and Daniela Barcellona. Experience an evening of vocal               BOOK NOW AS PART OF A SEASON 2019 SUBSCRIPTION
                                   prowess with famous arias, duets and ensembles.
                                                                                                              SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE 12 NOVEMBER
                                   14 July 2019 | Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall

*Currently available as part of a Season 2019 subscription. Single tickets on sale Monday 12 November 2018.
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