High on a prehistoric plateau in Queensland, this festival provokes questions about culture, community and being Australian in 2024.
Whether singing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York or dangling from a pole at the Eurovision finals, opera-trained pop star Kate Miller-Heidke is a model of on-stage poise., her gold-clad arm suddenly reaches up to bat flies away from her mouth, I realise just how far we are from the Sydney Opera House.
The show kicks off as the sun sets behind the stage, strafing gold across the plains 75 metres below. Soprano Rachelle Durkin is all swagger and sensuality, laughing her way through the high notes of an aria from Verdi’sWest Australian conductor Christopher van Tuinen offers laconic introductions to each piece in a program spanning Verdi, Mozart, Mascagni, Cilea and Gilbert and Sullivan., but the program also has deep cuts from the canon.Let’s take a step back.
“We are situated on what is very ancient land and we are absorbing the ancient DNA of this land and the ancient culture of this place,” says Quandamooka woman Leeanne Enoch, Minister for the Arts, during a panel at the North Gregory.
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