Cargher, John,  1919-2008 <br/><br/>
Bravo! two hundred years of opera in Australia / 
John Cargher. 
 - South Melbourne :  Macmillan Australia in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,  1988. 
 - vii, 247 p. :  ill. (some col.), facsims. ;  28 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/> OVERTURE --  ACT 1: HISTORY /  FIRST INTERVAL: THE NATIONAL OPERAS --  ACT 2: THE 'TRUST' /  SECOND INTERVAL: AUSTRALIA'S OPERA HOUSES --  ACT 3 :OUT OF SMALL ACORNS /  THIRD INTERVAL: OPERA GOES NATIVE --  ACT 4: GREAT FLEAS HAVE LITTLE FLEAS... /  Scene 1:  Operatic fossils in a barren land ; Scene 2: Women start the first opera seasons ; Scene 3: Imported opera --  Scene 1: Elizabethan ways in opera ; Scene 2: The R.I.P. tide is reversed --  Scene 1: The Australian Opera is born ; Scene2: The Bonynge years ; Scene 3: The managerial glass slippers --  Scene 1: Opera in Victoria ; Scene2: Opera in South Australia ; Scene 3: Opera in Queensland ; Scene 4: Opera in Western Australia. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0333478673 9780333478677 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Opera--History and criticism.--Australia
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML1751.A9  / C38 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>782.10994   / CAR