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Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt
SHOW DETAILS:
Friday 17 October – Saturday 25 October 2025
preview: Friday 17 October
opening night: Saturday 18 October
duration: 90 minutes
times:
Friday 17 October 7:30pm
Saturday 18 October 7:30pm
Tuesday 21 October 7:30pm
Friday 24 October 7:30pm
Saturday 25 October 5pm
ticket price: $30 – $60
bookings: 03 9662 9966
warnings: TBC
Melbourne’s multi-award-winning Lyric Opera returns to fortyfivedownstairs to present the Australian premiere of this “dazzlingly original score”. First staged at The Kitchen in New York, it has been hailed as a masterpiece of modern opera, drawing influences from baroque to minimalism to indie rock.
Isabelle Eberhardt’s journals were a rich source of inspiration for Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek. Eberhardt, born in 1877, led an extraordinary though short life. After the deaths of all her immediate family, she travelled unfettered to North Africa on a journey of self-discovery. She rode through the desert dressed as a man, outraged authorities, married an Algerian, converted to Sufism, and died in a flood, all by the age of 27.
The role of Eberhardt will be sung by the “commanding and captivating” mezzo-soprano Olivia Federow-Yemm supported by a cast of Melbourne’s most talented young singers and instrumentalists.
Photo by Jodie Hutchinson
CREATIVES
Composer: Missy Mazzoli
Librettists: Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek
Director: Beng Oh
Conductor: Patrick Burns
Set and Costume Designer: Adrienne Chisholm
Lighting Designer: Shane Grant
CAST
Isabella Eberhardt: Olivia Federow-Yemm
Chorus: Lisette Bolton, Leah Phillips, Olive Cullen, Timothy Daly, Daniel Felton
Ticket Prices:
Preview: $30
Full: $60
Concession: $45
Group 6+: $45
Concessions:
Pensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members
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