Published: February 17, 2019
Jarrahdale, WA
The Kelly gang’s rampages through rural Victoria are mellifluously evoked in this bushland production
Librettist Peter Goldsworthy described his Ned Kelly opera, co-written with composer Luke Styles, as a “three-act pub crawl”.
It’s an apt reminder of how this 19th century tale of a wild gang dressed in DIY suits of armour has embedded itself in Australia’s nationalist masculine mythology, situating the work in the beer barns where such legends of defiance traditionally go to be rudely embellished.
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