Sunday Arts Magazine

10 May 2015

Opera, Cullen, Chloe, Films, Don Giovanni & The Exonerated

Arts, History, Music, Performing Arts, TV & Film

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Our hosts discuss Opera Australia’s Madame Butterfly (first of a trio of operas in May along with Don Giovanni and Don Carlos) saying it was a beautiful production with a stellar performance from the lead Soprano.

Arts News—Late Artist Adam Cullen’s images are being used for utilitarian purposes without the family’s permission. Also, Young & Jacksons will be restoring and putting a cover on Chloe which has been valued at $5million and has much history surrounding it.

Brendan reviews 3 films– Ex Machina an ‘existential SciFi’ involving an Artificial Intelligence being, Unfriended a new micro budget horror film all taking place on a computer screen and Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck a warts and all doco-narrative of his life produced by his daughter and includes Nirvana band members and Courtney Love.

Special guests today are:

Jane Ede—is a principal opera singer at Opera Australia who is starring in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (11-30May, 8 shows). She plays Donna Elvira whom Don Giovanni has seduced & heartlessly spurned so she follows him everywhere torn between vengeance and love. Jane outlines how for 15 years, she worked her way through Opera Australia doing regional and school tours, being in the chorus and then principal soprano. She and our hosts also discuss the fashionability of opera, the immense costs involved and the huge and sumptuous production of Don Giovanni which Jane describes as ‘dark, nasty fun’. Book tickets at the Arts Centre or Opera Australia https://opera.org.au/melbourne

Andrei Schilla-Chan—artistic director and producer of the Sol III Company and actor Joseph Green talk about their play The Exonerated, playing from 20May to 7Jun in The Loft at Chapel off Chapel. See http://chapeloffchapel.com.au/ This is a docu-drama telling the stories of 6 wrongly-convicted death-row inmates who are eventually exonerated, including the famous Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter. Andrei tells of his background and how he started a company to bring voice to prisoner rehab & wrongful convictions… inspired by the wrong done to David McCallum III.