Table of Contents
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