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Approximate Running Times: Doors - 45 min before the performance IOpera, in collaboration with Melbourne Opera, presents a 40th anniversary production of Michael Nyman's extraordinary operatic adaptations of Oliver Sacks' best-seller case study THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT. Today regarded as one of the greatest writers on neurodiversity, here Sachs explores the mind of Dr. P, a professional opera singer and music teacher, for whom the world has become rendered incomprehensible as a result of a degenerative neurological disorder. This work of musical theatre that is at once astonishing, amusing, and supremely moving. Featuring some of Australia's finest singers and Melbourne Opera principals Elena Xanthoudakis (Lucia di Lammermoor), Christopher HIllier and Robert Macfarlane (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), and a chamber ensemble conducted by Peter Tregear (Jonny spielt auf, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) and directed by Macfarlane. .
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- Michael Nyman's 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat' has 3 upcoming events.
Please contact the Athenaeum Theatre Box Office directly on (03) 9650 1500
Mon - Fri 10:00am - 4:00pm
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Athenaeum Theatre Two, Melbourne, Australia
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