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Sydney Festival

Direction d'orchestre

Jack Symonds

Mise en scène

Janice Muller

Décors

Charles Davis

Video

James Peter Brown

Lumières

Matt Cox

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Creative Consultant

Matthew Lutton

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Mitchell Butel

Gerolamo Cardano

Chanteur

Soprano

Jane Sheldon

Chiara – mother

Jessica O'Donoghue

Chiara – daughter

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Fraser

Caterina

Ténor

Andrew Goodwin

Aldo/Cassante

Baryton

Simon Lobelson

Archbishop/Giambattista

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Ensemble Offspring

Sydney Chamber Opera

anglais

latin

Biographica

Sydney

Australie

Carriageworks

Bay 20

Biographica Finsterer

Public

Valide

SYNOPSISBiographica is an odyssey of maverick Renaissance genius Gerolamo Cardano, whose lust for gambling propelled him on to a precarious path between risk...

Scene II: The Birth
Soloist: Jane Sheldon, soprano
Storyline: Many years ago in 1500, Cardano’s mother grapples with grief while pregnant with Cardano.

In Anno Domini – Aria from Scene II of BIOGRAPHICA

Sydney Chamber Opera continues their pioneering development of the new opera canon with Biographica by Australian composer Mary Finsterer with a libretto by Tom Wright. Biographica is an intricate dance of genius and madness, inspired by the life and demise of Renaissance polymath Gerolamo Cardano.

Cardano was a magnificent and eccentric mind – a prolific inventor and flawed father, solitary, aggressive, peculiar. A man who would listen to a guardian angel, swear by science, and dream of defeating time. He wrote the first texts on the mathematics of gambling, was a world-renowned surgeon, invented algebra, and was a pioneer of sign-language. Leading Australian actor Mitchell Butel stars in this fascinating role, with Finsterer’s music reflecting the piercing beauty of the Renaissance much like maniera painting; rich, florid, bold.

Malthouse’s resident director Janice Muller unites with SCO to develop this extraordinary interrogation of the mind and the soul.

English

Biographica by Finsterer, Du (2017/2017), Dirigé par Janice Muller,, Chef d'orchestre Jack Symonds, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australie

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