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Cloud street book6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Together with veteran international theatre director Gale Edwards and State Opera of South Australia CEO and Artistic Director Timothy Sexton, Palmer has capitalised on the inherent music of Winton’s prose to produce an excellent libretto, and the result is an opera worthy of national and international acclaim. Since retiring as a Judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court in 2011, composer George Palmer has spent the past five years turning his vision of Cloudstreet as an opera into a reality. Its unparalleled evocation of an epoch and unflinching portrayal of the zeitgeist of the ’40s, ’50s and early ’60s have enabled Cloudstreet to assume a life of its own beyond the printed page. Seldom has an Australian novel so masterfully chronicled the vicissitudes of suburban family life juxtaposing the ordinary with the extraordinary, the prosaic with the poetic, and the magical with the real. ![]() ![]() Its characters and narrative have become part of our consciousness and national identity, capturing an essential understanding of the Australian psyche and the struggle of working class families across two tumultuous decades of social and economic change. There is scarcely an Australian novel so intimately beloved and culturally revered as Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet. ★★★★½ George Palmer, Gale Edwards and Timothy Sexton do justice to one of the greatest Australian stories ever written. ![]()
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