Elena Kats-Chernin and Justin Fleming’s opera,, mixes biography and epiphany to create a study of creation and destruction, of grand vision and sometimes sordid circumstance. The bio-pic narrative, charting artist Brett Whiteley’s life through childhood, love, success and death, punctuated by peak moments of self-realisation, is unusual for opera, which tends to prefer essence over information.
In a drama of more traditional operatic shape some of the life events – the parties, drug-busts and OBE – would have been shed and the relationships would be triangulated against essential conflicts and archetypes. But in the age of television we tell stories differently.
As muse and wife, Wendy, Julie Lea Goodwin embodied beauty and grace of voice and persona, creating gentle radiance of tone and a character of liveliness, bristling energy and quiet mystery. As the younger Arkie Natasha Green sang with simple undefiled purity. Singing his mother Beryl, Dominica Matthews handsomely completed the trio of reluctant goddesses and witnesses to Whiteley’s demonic addictions which lured him again and again to the abyss, an addiction as much to the intense creative presence he attributed, perhaps wrongly, to narcotic cognitive deformities as to the substance itself.
. Harpo was without a doubt an artist of rare genius. I wasn’t aware of his troubled birth, however. Still, it was never easy being the youngest child in a big, boisterous, talented Jewish family - even at the best of times.
. Harpo Marx was without a doubt an artist of rare genius. I wasn’t aware of his troubled birth, however. Still, it was never easy being the middle child in a big, boisterous, talented Jewish family even at the best of times.
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