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Sydney Chamber Opera sees reckless beauty in the Booker prize-winning tale of a wager between an unlikely couple
When you hold a prism of glass up to the light, you experience an ordinary but remarkable miracle of science: light bends and refracts, and on its journey it creates rainbows. It’s a fact of physics. It’s a splintering, a dispersion. It’s beautiful.
And just like rainbows out of glass comes Oscar and Lucinda, a poetic/intellectual contemporary chamber opera based on Peter Carey’s Booker and Miles Franklin award-winning novel. The book – an interrogation into and subversion of Australian colonialism through the lens of an unlikely pair – has been finely woven and condensed here for Sydney Chamber Opera by librettist Pierce Wilcox, side characters streamlined into a neat cast of six.
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