by Alana Valentine | May 30, 2024 | 2024, News, Opera, Oratorio
Written as an oratorio, Watershed turns the illicit into the sacred, through powerful choral music, solo voices and dance. It fuses inquest transcripts, press clippings, private correspondence and monologues spanning five decades of anti-gay violence, and...
by Alana Valentine | May 29, 2024 | 2024, Featured Home Page, News
These stories drawn from people married at the Wayside Chapel in Sydney reshape our understanding of this country’s social history, from a uniquely Australian institution where people have been welcomed for decades in spite of social taboos around race, class,...
by Alana Valentine | Oct 27, 2023 | 2024, News
Stephen Page, co-writer Alana Valentine, music by Steve Francis, designed by Jacob Nash, costumes Jennifer Irwin, lighting Damien Cooper. Book tickets
by Alana Valentine | Oct 27, 2023 | 2024, Featured Home Page, News
Sydney Festival 10 – 14 January, 2024. Cabaret written by Alana Valentine, directed by Liesel Badorrek, performed by Elenoa Rokobaro. Book tickets
by Alana Valentine | Oct 27, 2023 | 2024, Featured Home Page, News, Opera, Oratorio, Recent
Watershed, a ravishing new operatic work and the hit of the 2022 Adelaide Festival, is a collaboration between some of Australia’s most acclaimed creative talents. Alana Valentine and Christos Tsiolkas have created a searing libretto for Joe Twist’s...