Sydney Chamber Opera, Carriageworks
Six singers put not only their vocal cords but their bodies on the line in a physically demanding performance of Liza Lim’s aurally challenging opera
Ambition and desire. Sacrifice and death. Vengeance and violence. Justice and regeneration. Repeat.
Greek drama is so hot right now. It’s not only Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Robert Icke’s Oedipus went to Broadway this year after a successful UK season, and Simon Stone’s Simon Stone’s The Oresteia opened in London this month. Last month in Sydney David Wenham performed An Iliad at Sydney Theatre Company and now, at Carriageworks, we have Liza Lim’s operatic take on Aeschylus’s blood-soaked revenge cycle.
