Barbara O - The Strozzi Project

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Event Barbara O - The Strozzi Project
Venue Space Theatre, Adelaide, SA
Umbrella Event The Telstra Adelaide Festival 2000
First Date 14 March 2000
Opening Date 14 March 2000
Last Date 19 March 2000
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Elena Kats-Chernin is another of our most successful composers and her music is in demand from orchestras and ensembles throughout Australia and internationally. She is featured in several parts of the program - the premiere of a new symphonic work by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and two new works by the ASQ. Elena has already premiered two major music theatre works, Matricide (Chamber Made Opera) and I[his (Music Theatre Sydney), and now we have her latest, Barbara/O. In this work Elena puts into her own musical context the music of Barbara Strozzi, a contemporary of Monteverdi lost to
Description Source Brochure
Primary Genre Music Theatre
Secondary Genre Contemporary
Biographical
Subjects Life and Death
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Michaela Isabel Funfhausen Choreographer Dancer
Elena Kats-Chernin Composer
Barbara Strozzi Composer
Ann-Christin Rommen Director
Maria Jonas Singer
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Brochure Telstra Adelaide festival 2000 guide
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 100453