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EIF: Bliss

Sat 4 September

7.15pm

An opera by Brett Dean and Amanda Holden
Based on the novel by Peter Carey

Sung in English with English supertitles

Opera Australia
BBC SymphonyOrchestra
European Premiere

Please note this production contains coarse language and adult themes. It is not recommended for children.

‘Harry Joy was to die three times, but it was his first death which was to have the greatest effect on him…’

Peter Carey’s sardonic novel Bliss charts the escapades and misadventures of Harry Joy, an advertising executive who, having survived a near-death experience, gets sucked into a Kafkaesque routine of increasing bizarreness. Is he really in hell? In a place where his wife is constantly unfaithful, his son is a drug dealer and his daughter offers sexual favours to pay for her narcotic needs?

Supported by Edinburgh International Festival Friends and Patrons
Supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria
photo credit : Branco Gaica

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