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"Magic doesn’t just happen. Opera singers Kanen Breen and Christopher Tonkin
are learning that the hard way. Making magic is key to their onstage
partnership as the stars of a new Australian opera about one of the most
successful stage partnerships of all time – that of Siegfried Fischbacher and
Roy Horn: two boys raised in postwar Germany with violent, alcoholic fathers,
who became life and stage partners, created a celebrated magic and animal act
in Europe in the 1960s, and then went on to become the highest-paid act in Las
Vegas – until, in 2003, the duo’s beloved white tiger, Mantacore, put an end to
their career in spectacularly bloody fashion.
Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera, co-written by director Constantine
Costi and composer Luke Di Somma, is one of the centrepieces of this year’s
Sydney festival."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
