Love and Lockdown: A Pastiche Opera

The pastiche opera — a work stitched together from existing pieces — started as a quick and easy way to produce new works, but eventually became a prestigious staple of eighteenth-century European opera houses. 

In Love and Lockdown, librettist Catherine Noske relocates Baroque Italian arias to the balconies of the Covid pandemic. Centuries old arias by Handel, Monteverdi, Strozzi, and others about love, loss, and the power of music take on new meaning as the occupants of three balconies negotiate life in lockdown.

This world premiere dramatized concert performance will feature UWA Irwin Street Collective chamber orchestra, led by Shaun Lee-Chen, and singers and actors from the UWA Conservatorium of Music vocal program and English and Literary Studies.

Presenter: UWA Conservatorium of Music 

Location: Hackett Hall