CALVIN BOWMAN

THE OPERA

THE MAGIC PUDDING

Jeremy Kleeman as Albert the Pudding

VICTORIAN OPERA PRESENTS

THE MAGIC PUDDINGTHE OPERAComposer Calvin Bowman

Librettist Anna Goldsworthy

Conductor Fabian RussellDirector Cameron Menzies

Set and Costume Designer Chloe GreavesLighting Designer Peter Darby

Stage Manager Meg DeyellAssistant Stage Manager Lija Simpson

Narrator Georgia Wilkinson*Bunyip Bluegum Nathan Lay

Bill Barnacle Timothy ReynoldsSam Sawnoff Brenton Spiteri

Albert the Pudding Jeremy Kleeman

Wombat/Rooster Shakira Dugan*Possum Shakira Tsindos*Judge Carlos E. Bárcenas

Constable/Hedgehog Douglas Kelly*Benjimen Brandysnap Stephen Marsh*

Supported by a Youth Chorus and Community Chorus

Victorian Opera Chamber Orchestra

*Victorian Opera Youth Artist 2018

15-17 MARCH 2018Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse

Originally premiered on 4 October 2013 at The Coopers MalthouseRunning Time is 65 minutes, with no interval

Sung in English3

PRODUCTION

ORCHESTRAConcertmaster Ben Spiers2nd Violin Amy Brookman

Viola Susanna LingCello Mee Na Lojewski

Double Bass Rebecca ScullyFlute Kim Falconer

Clarinet Jessica HortBassoon Matthew KnealeTrumpet Sarah HendersonPercussion Kaylie Melville

Piano Phillipa Safey

CREATIVE TEAM

Assistant Director Elizabeth HillPuppet Construction Vanessa EllisProduction Manager Eduard Inglés

YOUTH CHORUSAidan McGartland, Alexander Owens, Anna Nowotny, Annabella Merakis, Anushka Tiwari, Callum MacDonald, Danielle Zuccala, Eliza O’Connor, Emilie Washington, Harrison Dart,

Hayley Jobson, Jack Jordan, Jamilah Dogar-Hurd, Joshua Morton-Galea, Katia Lang, Lisha Ooi, Madeline Plum, Matilda-Pearl Macnamara Muir, Mei Wah Chan, Mia Constanzo,

Michael Dimovski, Michael Zuccala, Nicholas Christie, Olivia White, Peter Lejins, Saskia Mascitti, Sophie McGetrick, Thomas Harvey, William Clarke

ADULT CHORUSAlan Tait, Alison Slater, Anna Markowicz, Anne Shepherd, Barry Gration,

Bernadette Kurczycka, Beverley Robinson, Beverley Douglas, Beverley Hastie, Elspeth Vines, Janette Fly, Karen Mulvany, Kerry Clarke, Robert Saliba,

Rosemary Tait, Sarah Berry, Terence Maher

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As this was my inaugural commission coming onboard as Artistic Director of Victorian Opera in 2013, I am delighted to see this adaptation return to the stage to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the book’s publication. Composer Calvin Bowman, a songwriter of rare abilities, found his inspiration in the charming libretto by Anna Goldsworthy which so deftly captured the essence of Norman Lindsay’s timeless Australian fairy tale.

This production combines Victorian Opera’s traditions of our annual youth and community operas, with young singers and adults jointly forming the chorus. The Magic Pudding – The Opera also returns to regional Victoria with performances in Wodonga and Bendigo, engaging with local choruses in each centre. This continues our company mission to create work for, and with, regional communities which enables the joy of discovery and participation via an expertly composed work realised with dedication and enthusiasm by our committed young cast.

Bringing the wonderful world of The Magic Pudding – The Opera back to the stage is made possible through generous support of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, The Robert Salzer Foundation, as well as Victorian Opera’s many patrons.

Thank you for joining us to celebrate the centenary of this classic. Happy 100th birthday, Pud!

Welcome and enjoy.

RICHARD MILLS Artistic Director

WELCOMEThe Magic Pudding is such a classic and its mixture of fantasy, zany humour and

gentle irony makes it an ideal opera for the young and young at heart, performed by a talented and engaging young cast.

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SLICE ONEMr Bunyip Bluegum, a koala, follows the scent of pudding until he comes across Bill Barnacle the sailor, Sam Sawnoff the penguin and Albert the ‘cut-an’-come-again’ Pudding. Albert is a Magic Pudding, as the more pudding you eat the more you get. He is however, a very grumpy fellow. Bill and Sam invite Bunyip to join them for a lunch of Pudding. After their meal, as Bill sings of how they met Albert, Watkin Wombat and Possum (The Puddin’ Thieves) appear. Sam punches Possum and knocks Wombat to the ground. The Puddin’ Thieves scurry off without stealing the pudding. Albert sings of how terrible his life is, stuck as a pudding in a pot. Bill and Sam ask Bunyip to join them as Puddin’ Owners.

SLICE TWOWombat and Possum have started a fire to create a huge distraction. They enter dressed as firemen to put out the fire. While everyone is distracted, Wombat makes off with Albert. The three distraught Puddin’ Owners set off in search of the thieves. Along the way they encounter Rooster and Henderson Hedgehog. Bill, Sam and Bunyip arrive at Watkin Wombat’s Summer Residence where Bunyip pretends to be a door-to-door salesman. Wombat and Possum fall for the trick and the Puddin’ Owners are able to snatch Albert back.

SLICE THREE

The following morning Wombat and Possum once again trick the Puddin’ Owners and run off with Albert. Luckily Bill, Sam and

Bunyip are rescued by a dog called Benjimen Brandysnap.

Bunyip plans an Official Grand Procession to lure the Puddin’ Thieves. Wombat has Albert hidden under his hat, so Bunyip tricks Wombat into removing his hat by singing ‘God Save the King’. Bill and Wombat get into a fight, and the pudding falls off Wombat’s head. Again the Puddin’ Thieves have been thwarted.

SLICE FOURAs a gang of four, Bill, Sam, Bunyip and Benjimen arrive at Tooraloo. Wombat and Possum, disguised as respectable townsfolk, accuse the Puddin’ Owners of stealing their pudding. They make a big commotion and the police arrive. Albert insults the policeman and then pinches him. The policeman has no option but to arrest Albert on the grounds of Puddin’ Assault.

In the Tooraloo court, Wombat and Possum are in the dock accused of Puddin’ stealing, Bill acts as the prosecuting lawyer with Benjimen Brandysnap and Sam Sawnoff as witnesses. Albert objects to the evidence and tries to start a fight. Bunyip pretends that Albert has been poisoned, and the Judge – who has eaten seven slices – has been poisoned seven times. There is chaos in the courtroom.

The Puddin’ Thieves run away and the Puddin’ Owners have Albert back. Bill, Sam, Bunyip, Benjimen and Albert all live happily together.

© Cameron Menzies

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BIOGRAPHIES

CALVIN BOWMAN Composer

Calvin Bowman is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, and was the first Australian to graduate with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University, with the assistance of a Fulbright scholarship. He is much in demand as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. As keyboardist he has premièred works by many prominent Australian composers and appeared as soloist with many of the major Australian orchestras.Dr Bowman is also a prolific composer, specialising in the form of artsong. His major awards include an Australia Council Fellowship, and he has also been commissioned by organisations such as Ars Musica Australis and Symphony Australia.

ANNA GOLDSWORTHY Librettist

Described by The Australian as a ‘musical ambassador,’ Anna Goldsworthy is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and versatile musicians. As a piano soloist, she has performed extensively throughout Australia and internationally, and as a chamber musician she is a founding member of Seraphim Trio. Anna’s literary publications include the memoirs Piano Lessons and Welcome to Your New Life, as well as the Quarterly Essay Unfinished Business. Anna records for the ABC Classics label. Her most recent CD is ‘Beethoven Piano Trios’ with Seraphim Trio, released in February 2016. She is currently a Lecturer in Ensemble at the Elder Conservatorium of Music.

FABIAN RUSSELL Conductor

In a career spanning three decades, Fabian has been at the forefront of the Australian classical music industry as an award-winning conductor, artistic director, orchestral musician, soloist and educator. After many years as a musician with some of Australia’s major orchestras, he became a professional conductor following the rapid growth and artistic success of The Orchestra Project – a national training orchestra that he created during his time as a member of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Fabian made his Victorian Opera debut in John Adams’ Nixon in China in 2013; receiving a Green Room Award for Outstanding Conductor and a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Music Director.

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CAMERON MENZIES Director

Cameron is a Helpmann and Green Room nominated artist who has worked for and directed for London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Shakespeare’s Globe (United Kingdom), Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, Short Black Opera Company, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Australian International Opera Company. Cameron is the Artistic Director of The Classics: Opera for City of Stonnington and Associate Artist (Director of Productions) Diva Opera (United Kingdom). He has directed over 50 productions throughout Australia, China, United Kingdom, Europe and South Africa. He is the recipient of the Berlin New Music Award 2011, Besen Fellowship Malthouse Theatre 2011 and Bayreuth Opera Award 2008.

CHLOE GREAVES Set and Costume Designer

Chloe is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and designs for both theatre and film. She has designed for companies including Belvoir Theatre, Chunky Move, Malthouse, MTC, Red Stitch, Victorian Opera and The Juilliard School. Chloe costumed the soon to be realised feature films ‘Living Space’ and ‘2040’ and has styled music videos for artists including Guy Sebastian, San Cisco, DZ Deathrays, Montaigne, and Alison Wonderland. She received Orloff Family Trust Award (2008), Malthouse Theatre Besen Family Scholarship (2010) and the Green Room Award for Design (Independent Theatre, 2014) for her year’s body of work. Chloe has been nominated for six other Green Room Awards.

PETER DARBY Lighting Designer

Peter is a Green Room Award nominated Lighting Designer, Head Electrician and Programmer. Peter is a graduate of the VCA School of Production where he studied lighting design under the late John Comeadow. Peter works extensively with Victorian Opera in the role of Technical & Operations Coordinator, personally working on more than 50 productions for the company. Peter’s Victorian Opera lighting design repertoire includes: The Snow Queen, Four Saints in Three Acts, Alice’s Adventures in Operaland, Hansel & Gretel, The Magic Pudding, Rush Hour, The Play of Daniel, 2011 Regional Tour Gala Performances, Brundibár, The Cockatoos and The Little Sweep.

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GEORGIA WILKINSON Narrator

The youngest vocalist to become Opera Scholar of the Year, Georgia has since received multiple awards in musical theatre and garnered a Bachelor of Music from Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. She made her professional debut in a critically acclaimed production of Masterclass, and her international debut in Weimar, Germany in the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. Having won grants from both the Ian Potter Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts in 2017, Georgia has recently completed intensive study programs in both England and New York City. Georgia is thrilled to be working with Victorian Opera this year!

NATHAN LAY Bunyip Bluegum

Nathan completed his Bachelor of Music at the Melba Conservatorium of Music in 2008, and has since established a career in the Melbourne opera, oratorio, and concert scene. He has won the National Liederfest, Australian Music Events’ Opera Scholar of the Year, the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Aria, the Australian International Opera Award, and placed 3rd in the Herald Sun Aria. He has performed with Opera Australia, Melbourne Opera, Sydney Chamber Opera, the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and extensively with Victorian Opera including completing their Developing Artist Program/Master of Music (Opera Performance) at The University of Melbourne.

TIMOTHY REYNOLDS Bill Barnacle

Timothy recently returned from Europe where he performed with The Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, The Bach Akademie Stuttgart with Hans Christoph Rademann, Opera Holland Park, Philharmonischer Chor Esslingen, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and understudied a number of roles at Oper Stuttgart, Germany. In Australia, he has worked with many groups including Victorian Opera, Opera Australia, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Simone Young and Sir Andrew Davis, Ludovico’s Band, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Melbourne Bach Choir, La Compania, the Consort of Melbourne, Gloriana, and the Australian Chamber Choir. In 2018 Timothy will be working with Victorian Opera in multiple productions.

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BRENTON SPITERI Sam Sawnoff

Brenton Spiteri was the 2012 Herald Sun Aria winner. Performance highlights include Tamino The Magic Flute, Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi, Ernesto Don Pasquale (State Opera South Australia); Clotarco Armida (Pinchgut Opera); Count Almaviva The Barber of Seville (Melbourne Opera); Schoolmaster/Mosquito Cunning Little Vixen (Victorian Opera); Britten’s Les Illuminations (Sydney Symphony Orchestra); as well as Ashley in Fly Away Peter and the lead in Notes from Underground for Sydney Chamber Opera. For two seasons, he was a young artist at Opéra de Lyon, with roles in L’incoronazione di Poppea and Le Roi Carotte, at venues including Opéra Nouvel and the Royal Opera House of Versailles.

JEREMY KLEEMAN Albert the Pudding

A graduate of Victorian Opera’s Developing Artist Program and of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Jeremy Kleeman has been a Melba Opera Trust Scholar, the recipient of the Dame Heather Begg Award and both Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations. Jeremy has performed with Opera Australia, State Opera of South Australia, Sydney Chamber Opera, Pinchgut Opera, Brisbane Baroque, Musica Viva, Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society, Consort of Melbourne, Melbourne Bach Choir and the Canberra International Music Festival. Jeremy’s 2018 engagements include Walter Furst in William Tell, Nielsen Symphony No.3 with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and Second Elder (Susanna, Handel) for Handel In The Theatre, Canberra.

SHAKIRA DUGAN Wombat/Rooster

Shakira is a mezzo soprano from Stratford. She completed a Bachelor of Music at Melbourne Conservatorium in 2015 and is currently under the tutelage of Roger Howell. She has been involved in companies such as Gippsland Opera, Melbourne Opera, Opera Bootcamp Australia, Australian Welsh Male Choir, Opera Scholars Australia, Victorian Youth Opera and Victorian Opera Touring Company. She was also a grand finalist of OSA’s Scholar of the Year 2017 and current grand finalist for 2018. Shakira is a current Youth Artist with Victorian Opera and reprises the role of Hansel in the company’s production of Hansel and Gretel in June.

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SHAKIRA TSINDOS Possum

Mezzo soprano Shakira Tsindos was a Developing Artist with Victorian Opera, the recipient of the Joseph Sambrook Opera Scholarship with the Melba Opera Trust and was a finalist in the Opera Scholars Australia competition in 2016. Last year, Shakira made her European debut in Sicily as Dorabella in Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte and won an Acclaim Awards Fellowship. Roles with Victorian Opera include; Dorothée in Cendrillon, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, Mrs Mayor in The Pied Piper, Mum in The Grumpiest Boy in the World, Ministrel in Laughter and Tears, The Cuckoo in The Sleeping Beauty.

CARLOS E. BARCENAS Judge

Born in Cali, Colombia, Carlos studied with Gustavo A. Marquez before moving to Australia in 2007. He holds a Bachelor of Music Performance and a Master of Music (Opera Performance) at The University of Melbourne where he was awarded the Keith G. Chapman Memorial Scholarship. His roles for Victorian Opera include Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer, Wagner), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti), Elvino (La Sonnambula, Bellini), Sir Bruno (I Puritani, Bellini), Flavio (Norma, Bellini), Gastone de Letorières (La Traviata, Verdi), Prince April (The Sleeping Beauty, Respighi) and Ramiro (La Cenerentola, Rossini). Carlos received a Green Room Award for his performance of Steuermann in Der fliegende Holländer.

DOUGLAS KELLY Constable/Hedgehog

Douglas Kelly is a Youth Artist at Victorian Opera with extensive experience in opera, oratorio and as a recitalist. Douglas has performed roles such as: Basilio in Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro, Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, the title role in Dove’s Tobias and the Angel and Henry Crawford in Mansfield Park. In 2016 Douglas was a semi finalist in the Mietta Song Competition and the encouragement award winner in the Herald Sun Aria. As a Youth Artist, he will also be performing the role of Sandman in Hansel and Gretel and will be part of the Chorus in Rossini’s William Tell.

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STEPHEN MARSH Benjimen Brandysnap

Stephen is studying with Roger Howell and has performed with Victorian Opera, Australian Music Events and Melbourne Opera. He received the esteemed Betty Amsden AO Scholar of the Year Award with Opera Scholars Australia and is the recipient of numerous vocal scholarships, including a full scholarship for Opera Scholars Australia’s young artist program. He has performed at Opera in the Alps and Opera in the Market alongside Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Roy Best. A current Youth Artist for Victorian Opera, his credits include The Sleeping Beauty, The Grumpiest Boy in the World, Hansel and Gretel, Heroes and Villains, The Snow Queen and The Magic Pudding.

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