Not all Australian opera is frilly,federally funded fare. Pinchgut airs a forgotten masterpiece of fun – L’amant jaloux with a young cast in the finest of voiceClassical music isn’t a secret society unless we allow it to beWhile Australia’s national opera company feeds its audiences with bottom-line friendly re-runs of Romantic favourites, two minuscule opera companies in Sydney are spanning the extremities of the repertoire to offer more interesting fare.
Sydney Chamber Opera, and founded in 2010 by Jack Symonds and Louis Garrick and now based at Carriageworks,produced two challenging works this year: the premiere in May of composer Eliott Gyger’s hover absent Peter, an adaption of David Malouf’s dreamily powerful wartime novella; Italian composer Fausto Romitelli’s 2003 work, and An Index of Metals,provocatively staged in November.
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Source: theguardian.com