Published: April 27, 2020
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A showcase of four new operatic acts by women takes to the virtual stage, inspired by everything from Sylvia Plath to the eradication of wildlife
“There is no reason for the sudden terror, the feeling of condemnation,” the poet Sylvia Plath wrote in her diaries, “except that circumstances all mirror the inner doubt, the inner fear.”
Plath often wrote of her terror of being “horribly limited”, despite her talents and her posthumous lionisation as a persecuted feminist. It is a disquiet that many can relate to – and one that has found new expression in a micro-opera: Her Dark Marauder by Australian composer Georgia Scott.
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