Co-created, directed and performed with THE oPERA PROJECT INC.

Performers:
Nigel Kellaway (actor/co-devisor/director)
Nikki Heywood (actor, replacing Regina Heilmann)
Annette Tesoriero (mezzo-soprano)
Heloise Pyne, Katrina Papallo (violins)
Catherine Upex, Steve Meyer (‘celli)
Ashley Kurrle (double bass)
Michael Bell (piano)
Composer: Nigel Kellaway (after J-P. Rameau)
Dramaturg: Bryoni Trezise
Lighting: Simon Wise

Premiered: 20th August 2009 at Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney
Co-production with Performance Space, Sydney.

Power, culture, family, dirt, failure, violence, age, loss and reminiscence.

 A sprawling, multi-layered music theatre work for nine performers featuring Kellaway’s “re-imaginings” of the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764).  Reveling in the sometime grandeur, delicacy, complexity and underlying wit of the French Baroque, it employs seductive improvisations on a complex layering of sophisticated deceits.

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” The Rameau Project confirms Kellaway’s esoteric vision – musically scholarly, literary, in love with the cut and paste of building idiosyncratic works out of others’ classics … a modus operandi which faces the inevitability of likewise becoming itself ‘classical’.”

Keith Gallasch,  REALTIME, Oct-Nov, 2009