Fancy Me Dead

2015-07

Smith, Paul

First performance of this work:
2015: Hobart Town Hall, Festival of Voices by Blush Opera
Other performances of this work:
2015: Hayes Theatre Co, Potts Point, New Music Network Mini Series Program by Blush Opera
2017: Big Theatre, Bondi Paviliion by Blush Opera
Commissioned in part by the New Music Network

Original Creative Works - Other

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Publication

Australian Music Centre

Sydney, Australia

une:1959.11/31458

This opera responds to the question of how chamber opera can involve aspects of the cabaret aesthetic. The opera is a dark satire of many character and narrative opera tropes and mediates them through the cabaret aesthetic mixed with humour, slight-of-hand, physical comedy and burlesque. The opera has been performed in bars, cabaret venues and small theatres which contribute to its cabaret aesthetic. The show challenges traditional female relationships in opera and centres on the body of a dead man instead of a dead woman as so many canonic operas do.

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