Name: Parrwang Lifts The Sky
Start: 2024-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Malthouse

Organization

Admin

Victorian Opera

Short Black Opera

Costume designer

Mel Serjeant

Set designer

BJ O’Toole

Lighting designer

Peter Darby

Stage director

Elizabeth Hill-Cooper

Orchestra Victorian Opera Chamber Ensemble

Melbourne Conservatorium of  Music (University of Melbourne)

Conductor

Aaron Wyatt

Cultural Textile Design

Deanne Gilson

Sound designer

Sam Moxham

Singer

Sarah Prestwidge

Parrwang

Lisette Bolton

Michaela Cadwgan

Gorngany

Sofia Imperatore

James Billson

Bunjil

Isaac Burgess

Nicholas Beecher

Mr Waa

Mitchell Sanders

Chloe James

Mrs Waa

Saskia Mascitti

Chloe Taylor

Tjatjarrang

Millicent Brake

Douglas Kelly

Koki

angličtina

Parrwang Lifts The Sky -  (Parrawang Lifts The Sky)

Melbourne

Australia

Malthouse

Merlyn Theatre

Did you know that magpies created the first dawn?*

Victorian Opera is once again proud to present Parrwang Lifts The Sky as part of its family and education program.

A long time ago…

The sky was a blanket on the land. The earth was in darkness and the people were afraid. If not for the courage of Parrwang the magpie, determined to assist her newfound friends, this blanket may still be with us today.

Tjatjarrang (Big Sister) and Koki (Brother) are young, adventurous and tired of living in the dark. When they manage to climb to the highest branches of an ancient gum tree, they discover a world of colour and light and a friend in Parrwang (Magpie).

Parrwang decides to help her new friends lift the blanket of darkness from the young humans world. The plan is devised but Parrwang must first convince the Great Council of Birds led by Bunjil (Eagle). Will the council agree?

*Based on an original creation story from Wadawurrung Country.

Watch Parrwang Lifts the Sky online from the comfort of your own home by purchasing Digital Access, either as a Subscription package or as an individual performance.

Streamed live on the performance date and available on-demand for six months.
You can watch when you want and as many times as you want.

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