STC’s new AD will direct Britten’s Roman tale for Sydney Chamber Opera as part of Carriagework’s ambitious 2017 season.

Carriageworks has revealed that Sydney Theatre Company’s brand new Artistic Director Kip Williams will direct Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with Sydney Chamber Opera as part of its ambitious 2017 season.

^{Sydney Chamber Opera’s The Rape of Lucretia, photo © Samuel Hodge}

Rising operatic star Anna Dowsley will sing the title role, in the first performance of the work in Sydney this century. Williams, whose work in theatre often features music as an integral part, has directed a number of productions for Sydney Chamber Opera in the past, most recently a radical staging of Fausto Romitelli’s An Index of Metals at Carriageworks in 2015.

^{Kip Williams’ production of Romitelli’s An Index of Metals in 2015}

Some of the other highlights of Carriageworks’ 2017 include the inaugural edition of The National: New Australian Art, the result of a partnership between Carriageworks, the Art Gallery of NSW and the Museum of Contemporary Art, which will explore the latest forms in Australian contemporary art.

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