This video celebrates 40 years of the association between ABC Television and the Australian Opera. The best performers, conducters, designers assemble in a gala performance. Unique archival footage from an early production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” staged in 1960, to the more recent production of “La Boheme” by Baz Luhrmann is featured. Some of the performers are Dame Joan Sutherland, Donald Smith, Neil Warren-Smith, John Shaw, Joan Carden, Yvonne Kenny and Jeffrey Black.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
307071
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Music & Performing Arts → Operas - Excerpts
Performance → Opera - Performance
Television → Television programs
Television → Television programs → Television programs - Australia
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)