1st Edition
Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume II Applied Perspectives: Compositions and Performances
Part 1 Australian Composers and their Operas
Chapter 1: From European Romantic to "Wild Colonial Boy"? John Antill and Post-Colonial Australian Opera
David Symons
Chapter 2 The Voice of Emotion in Contemporary Australian Opera
Michael Halliwell
Chapter 3: Translating Page to Stage: Creating Emotionally Engaging Opera for Children
Emma Jayakumar
Chapter 4: Speechless: An Operatic Response to Human Rights Abuse in Twenty-first-century Australia
Joel Crotty and Cat Hope
Chapter 5: The Divorce: A Soap Opera
Helen Rusak
Part 2 Antipodean Performance and Practice
Chapter 6: From Patriotism to Alterity: Charting the Australian experience of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas
Jane W. Davidson and Stephanie Rocke
Chapter 7: "Lamento d’Arianna": A Transhistorical Study of Staged Emotions and Affective Audience Responses
Daniela Kaleva
Chapter 8: Assembling Voyage to the Moon: Emotion, Creativity and Historicity in a New Australian Opera
Joseph Browning and Jane W Davidson
Chapter 9: Emotion as Multiple: Rehearsing Voyage to the Moon
Joseph Browning
Part 3 Collection Conclusions
Chapter 10: Antipodean Classification, the Emotions of Othering and Multiculturalism
Stephanie Rocke
Chapter 11: What have we learnt about Emotions?
Jane W. Davidson, Michael Halliwell and Stephanie Rocke
Biography
Jane W. Davidson has performed in and directed opera for more than 30 years. She is currently Head of Performing Arts at the University of Melbourne’s Conservatorium of Music. She has published widely, across the field of music psychology, musicology and practice as research. She is president of the Australian Music and Psychology Society.
Michael Halliwell has enjoyed a career as an opera singer in Europe and as an academic at the University of Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has published widely and is president of the International Association for Word and Music Studies.
Stephanie Rocke is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, with wide-ranging interests and publications in music and culture across time.
