Ticket Options for The Drover’s Wife
We’ll make a dinner reservation for you and your guests at Eastbank, Searock Grill, or Bennies, Circular Quay two hours before your performance begins. Order from the 'Dinner on us' menu from 5:00pm and enjoy your meal with a complimentary glass of wine or beer, before strolling to the Sydney Opera House.
About The Drover’s Wife
Molly Johnson is a survivor. Heavily pregnant, she’s left alone to care for her children in a remote Snowy Mountains shanty.
Between the snakes, bullocks and hostile travellers on her doorstep, she faces no shortage of threats. With her husband away droving sheep, she faces them alone.
But when Yadaka, an Aboriginal man evading colonial authorities, disrupts Molly’s hard-won sanctuary, the pair’s shared history of brutal hardships can no longer be ignored.
The Drover’s Wife is a monumental new opera based on the play, novel and film by one of Australia’s leading artists, Leah Purcell. With a ravishing score by George Palmer, this new version reveals the symphonic soul of Purcell’s modern classic.
Australia’s newest opera star Nina Korbe (West Side Story on Sydney Harbour) leads the cast as the titular drover’s wife in a role that will leave you breathless.
Opera Australia in association with Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Oombarra Productions presents the Drover’s Wife
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