TY - BOOK AU - Cargher,John ED - Australian Broadcasting Corporation. TI - Bravo! two hundred years of opera in Australia SN - 0333478673 AV - ML1751.A9 C38 U1 - 782.10994 20 PY - 1988/// CY - South Melbourne PB - Macmillan Australia in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation KW - Opera KW - History and criticism KW - Australia N1 - Includes index; OVERTURE --; ACT 1: HISTORY; Scene 1: Operatic fossils in a barren land ; Scene 2: Women start the first opera seasons ; Scene 3: Imported opera --; FIRST INTERVAL: THE NATIONAL OPERAS --; ACT 2: THE 'TRUST'; Scene 1: Elizabethan ways in opera ; Scene 2: The R.I.P. tide is reversed --; SECOND INTERVAL: AUSTRALIA'S OPERA HOUSES --; ACT 3 :OUT OF SMALL ACORNS; Scene 1: The Australian Opera is born ; Scene2: The Bonynge years ; Scene 3: The managerial glass slippers --; THIRD INTERVAL: OPERA GOES NATIVE --; ACT 4: GREAT FLEAS HAVE LITTLE FLEAS...; Scene 1: Opera in Victoria ; Scene2: Opera in South Australia ; Scene 3: Opera in Queensland ; Scene 4: Opera in Western Australia ER -