Lady Sings the Maroons was born out of my admiration for the great tradition of popular music that has played an important part in Queensland’s history. The Saints were the first live band I saw. It was 1981 in the basement of a grimy pub on Sydney’s lower north shore, a benevolent bouncer allowed me and my overly excited underage friends in.
I can still feel the energy of that room. The power being generated by the four people standing on stage felt dangerous – it was like nothing I had ever experienced before. It was completely liberating.
This was the first of many Queensland bands and singers I would have the good fortune of seeing live, The Go-Betweens, Regurgitator, Kate Miller-Heidke, Powderfinger, Megan Washington to name a few of the others.
The initial idea for this show was to celebrate this extraordinary tradition and collection of artists. When we sat down to develop the idea, we realised that Queensland has been producing great singers and songwriters since well before the Punk explosion of the seventies and we decided to change course. Rather than tell the story of the music, why not let the music tell a story of Queensland.
The initial draft of the show was born of a series of conversations amongst the artists involved. We delved into the history of Queensland and asked questions like: What does Queensland sound like? Who’s the most famous singer to be born in Queensland? What’s the first colour that comes to mind when thinking of Queensland? What Queensland songs would you put on a mixtape for a road trip? What’s unique / different about Queensland?
Slowly a story started to emerge, a version of Queensland told through its songs and shaped by all the members of the cast and creative team. While there is a moment that gently conjures that fateful night in 1981, Lady Sings the Maroons, offers us a version of Queensland that is considerably more subtle and nuanced. It’s a story that will inevitably change as the show tours and the artists deepen their connection to the songs and each other.
All up we will visit over 20 different cities and towns on this tour. It is a complex process which demands a lot from everyone involved, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. The different audiences we encounter will no doubt have footnotes and corrections to make to the story we tell, and it is these interactions that inspire us to make these works and take them on the road.
We are grateful for the support of Arts Queensland and Tim Fairfax Family Foundation, whose generous investment in our regional program makes these tours possible. Thanks also to The Southport School (TSS), Cisco and Data#3, our corporate partners on this tour.
Thank you to all the local stage crews and presenters who will welcome us to their venues. The performances and programs we deliver across regional and remote Queensland define us as the state’s opera company. We are passionate about bringing the joy and wonder of song to our audiences, wherever they may be.
To this end, our 2023 Annual Appeal is raising funds to enable us to deepen our relations with these communities. If you would like to be a part of our donor community by supporting our Annual Appeal.
Thank you to all the artists involved in creating Lady Sings the Maroons, we are very fortunate to have a team so full of talent and with such beautiful voices. We send them off with all good wishes, aware that they are continuing a tradition of sharing stories through song, that is as old as the country they travel through.
Patrick Nolan CEO & Artistic Director
Fun Fact: Queensland is the most decentralised state in Australia. Even if the traffic on the Pacific Motorway might make you feel otherwise, here we have the most people, spread the farthest apart. If there is one thing Queenslanders can’t deny, it is that what we have is space and distance. I have experienced this distance firsthand, growing up at two opposite ends of this great state. I was born in the wet tropics of Cairns and have now lived for most of my adult life amongst the glitz and glamour of the sunny Gold Coast. So, when we decided to create a show about what it means to be from Queensland my gut reaction was twofold: firstly, what a mammoth thing to attempt; and secondly, I cannot wait to go on this adventure.
From the very beginning this show has always been a road trip in my head. To me music will always be tied to time spent in a car. As kids every year we would drive from Cairns, or later in life when my family lived in Central Queensland, from Mackay, down to visit my grandparents in Brisbane. That is 1,700km and about 20 hours of being squeezed in the back of a car with my three brothers. Most of the drive was spent outside of FM radio reception and therefore being subject to the range of ten cassettes (or later CDs) that Mum had in the glovebox. We would listen to music and, if you were lucky enough to get a window seat, stare out as the canefields whipped by. This is Queensland to me. Beautiful places tied up in tunes. And what creating this show has revealed is that so much of the music created here sings to the soul of the places, people and experiences that are uniquely Queensland.
Our über talented cast, Marcus Corowa, Jess Hitchcock and Irena Lysiuk, are each tied to Queensland in their own ways, and in developing this show it was beautiful to have them share their own personal stories of connection to this land. Experiences so different from mine, but still so very Queensland. Our creative team too came to this production with a vast array of Queenslandish experiences. Stunning costume designs by Bianca Bulley and Karen Cochet, divine musical arrangements by Luke Volker, and of course the opportunity, concept and dramaturgy for this entire show from Patrick Nolan, all informed by the Sunshine State.
So it goes that the creation of Lady Sings the Maroons has been a deeply personal one. We sat together and spoke about what this place looks and feels like, on the good days and the bad. We spoke of the people from here, the ones we love and the ones who have been left behind. And then we made music. We found the songs that told those stories. Our stories and hopefully some of your stories. With such an enormous task ahead of us in encapsulating Queensland into a 90 minute show, we knew there was no way that we’d get it all covered, but I hope that some part of this journey through Queensland is one will know as a road you’ve travelled. Perhaps you will recognise the view through the car window.
Laura Hansford Director & Writer
Streets Of Your Town
The Go-Betweens
My Sky (The Rabbits)
Kate Miller-Heidke and Lally Katz
Měsíčku (Rusalka) / Moonstruck
Antonín Dvořák and Jaroslav Kvapil / Kev Carmody
How Deep Is Your Love
Bee Gees
My Island Home
Neil Murray and George Burarrwanga – Warumpi Band
Io de' sospiri (Tosca) / Bush Silence
Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa / William G James
The Town Song
Brisbane Ladies (Saul Mendelsohn), Cunnamulla Fella (Slim Dusty), Charleville (Slim Dusty and Don Walker), Goondiwindi Moon (Lee Kernaghan), Drovers' Call (Sara Storer), Longreach is Praying (John Williamson), Frangipani Bay (John Williamson), Old T.I. (Traditional)
Powderfinger
Yil Lull
Joe Geia
Il mio tesoro / Go Quickly To My Loved One (Don Giovanni)
W.A. Mozart; English words by Roy Jeffries
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody
(I'm) Stranded / Affirmation
The Saints / Savage Garden
Sempre libera (La traviata)
Giuseppe Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave
Everybody
Marcus Corowa
Another Australian Day
Troy Cassar-Daley
The Mega-mix
4ever (The Veronicas, 2005), All I Want Is You (Ball Park Music, 2011), Sounds of Then (Gang Gajang, 1985), Cinderella (Shakaya, 2002), Special Ones (George, 2001), Science Is Golden (The Grates, 2006), Heaven Knows (Rick Price, 1992), Maranoa Lullaby (Traditional ), I Know A Place (Bluey, 2021), Party (Christine Anu, 1995), Somebody Like You (Keith Urban, 2002), Polyester Girl (Regurgitator, 1997), Mysterious Girl (Peter Andre, 1995), Flame Trees (Cold Chisel, 1984)
Concept
Patrick Nolan
Director & Writer
Laura Hansford
Musical Director & Arranger
Luke Volker
Costumes
Karen Cochet & Bianca Bulley
Set Designer
Laura Hansford
Vocal and instrumental
Marcus Corowa
Jess Hitchcock
Irena Lysiuk
Piano, instrumental and vocals
Luke Volker
TOURING QUEENSLAND APRIL – JUNE 2023
This performance lasts approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes, including 20 minutes interval.
No portion of this performance may be photographed, recorded, filmed, taped, broadcast or mechanically reproduced without the written consent of the Artist and/or the Presenter.
Patrick Nolan
Currently the CEO & Artistic Director of Opera Queensland, Patrick has created productions for Opera Australia, WA Opera, Sydney Chamber Opera, New Zealand Opera, Seattle Opera, Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir St, Griffin Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and all the major Australian capital city festivals.
From 2009 – 2014 he was Artistic Director of Legs On The Wall, creating works that toured Australia, UK, Korea and Brazil. In 2015, Patrick was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship to support research into large scale outdoor performance and the relationship between extreme physicality and storytelling.
Operas include: Oscar and Lucinda Opera Queensland with Sydney Chamber Opera and Victorian Opera; Tosca, A Flowering Tree and The Marriage of Figaro Opera Queensland; Verdi Requiem Opera Queensland with Bleach* Festival; Katya Kabanova Seattle Opera and NZ Opera; Notes from Underground Sydney Chamber Opera; A Flowering Tree Perth Festival and WA Opera; Acis and Galatea, Dido and Aeneas, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Eugene Onegin, Pelléas et Mélisande Opera Australia; La bohème, Eugene Onegin New Zealand Opera; the world première of Love in the Age of Therapy by Paul Grabowsky and Joanna Murray-Smith for the Sydney and Melbourne Festivals.
Laura
HansfordLaura Hansford has worked on Opera Queensland (OQ) productions for the last decade as both an artistic and technical collaborator. She directed OQ’s most successful touring production Are You Lonesome Tonight (2021), co-directed The Sopranos (OQ) and Home Grown Opera (for OQ and Bleach* Festival), and re-directed The Sopranos for OQ’s regional tour in 2022. Most recently, she directed Verdi’s Macbeth, presented in QPAC’s Concert Hall in March 2023.
In 2021/2022 Laura was a resident Director with Circa and was the Project Lead on their inclusive Circus program Circability. She was the Associate Director on Circa’s Italian Baroque presented with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra at Sydney Festival 2022.
Laura is currently Artistic Associate for OQ and has acted as Assistant Director on a variety of productions for OQ: The Marriage of Figaro (2021), Tosca (2019), Songs to Die For (2019); and for Victorian Opera: The Barber of Seville (2019), Pelléas and Mélisande (2018).
Laura has worked extensively with companies such as Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Opera and State Opera South Australia. In 2020 she was nominated as an Emerging Female Artist at the Matilda awards.
Forthcoming engagements include Assistant Director for Così fan tutte (OQ) and La bohème (West Australian Opera).
Luke Volker
Luke Volker is a Brisbane-based music director, dramaturg, composer, arranger and accompanist. His credits as music director or musical supervisor include the Universal Monsters Live Rock & Roll Show® and Hogwarts™ Frog Choir for Universal Studios Japan®, The Sunshine Club for Queensland Theatre, and national tours of The Owl & The Pussycat, #FirstWorldWhiteGirls, Ruby Slipper Chronicles, and Babushka’s Happily Ever After (for which he won a Matilda Award). He has also worked on developmental productions for QPAC, Metro Arts, Opera Queensland, Queensland Theatre and Dead Puppets Society, among many others.
Luke’s arrangements have been performed across Australia and internationally, including at Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Sydney WorldPride and New York’s The Green Room 42. He is the composer of There Once Was A Puffin, an online mini-opera for children commissioned during 2020’s lockdown period, and regularly writes and arranges for Opera Queensland’s Learning, Regional and Community projects. As a pianist Luke has played for various touring musicals, performs with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, is the resident accompanist for SingEasy’s Musical Theatre Industry Night, and has worked with such celebrated artists as Caroline O’Connor, Lea Salonga, Faith Prince, Rhonda Burchmore and Philip Quast.
Luke acknowledges the original custodians of the lands on which he lives, works, and creates. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Karen Cochet
Trained in fashion, Karen owned innovative clothing business “Salon Dada”. In 1989, Karen relocated to Europe and worked for Opèra de Lausanne and Grand Théâtre de Genève from 1994 to 2006. Originally as a cutter costume maker and later as Artistic Liaison, she expanded her knowledge and love of costume working alongside the most talented and respected costumiers and artisans in Europe.
A career highlight was La Fête des Vignerons in 1999, where Karen was responsible for the realisation of over 6,000 costumes, spanning all periods from 15th century to contemporary times. She worked with Christian Lacroix, Couturier, commissioned to design the costumes for the goddesses. Resident costume designer for Ballet Romand in Vevey from 2003 to 2008, Karen realised the costumes for The Nutcracker, Cinderella and Peter Pan, to name a few. Her final project in Switzerland was “Calvin, Genève en Flammes”, celebrating the 500th anniversary of Jean Calvin in Geneva.
Karen was appointed Head of Wardrobe at Opera Queensland in 2013. Design credits for Opera Queensland include The Adventures of Figaro, A Night with Opera Queensland, Snow White (nominated for Best Costume Design, Matilda Awards, 2016) and The Marriage of Figaro. She codesigned Songs of Love and War and Chrysalis in 2021, The Sopranos in 2022 and, most recently, Macbeth (March 2023).
Bianca Bulley
Bianca is a costume designer, cutter and maker for live performance and film. Graduating with Honours from a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design, she has worked for multiple independent Australian fashion designers as well as extensively within the costume industry. Her work as a costume designer and maker expands across multiple Queensland major performing arts companies such as Queensland Theatre, Queensland Ballet and most recently full time as Assistant Head of Wardrobe at Opera Queensland (OQ).
For OQ, Bianca designed the schools touring production of The Frog Prince and La bohème in 2020, and was co-designer for Chrysalis and Songs of Love and War (2021), The Sopranos (2022) and Macbeth (2023). She has also worked on films such as Pirates of the Caribbean and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, where she worked on Elvis’s tailored suits. In 2019 Bianca was awarded a Churchill Scholarship, undertaking training to further her skill as a costume tailor.
Bianca is a Co-Manager of fashion not-for-profit The Stitchery Collective, a group of fashion practitioners who create immersive fashion events and workshops for Queensland art galleries and museums. In addition, Bianca co-runs fashion label Bulley Bulley with her sister Kiara, where they design clothing that combines the concepts of historical costuming with the frivolity and fun nature of contemporary fashion.
Marcus Corowa
Marcus Corowa has captured the hearts of Australians with his silky, soulful voice and charming stage presence. An award-winning First Nations entertainer, Marcus is an accomplished singer/songwriter, composer, actor and mentor who has been turning heads for more than a decade.
Drawing on his Aboriginal and South Sea Islander heritage, Marcus creates captivating music with elements of blues, jazz and funk; a combination that won him the Most Promising New Talent in Music Award at the 2012 Deadly Awards and that can be heard on his EPs Water & Air and The Greater You. Since then, Marcus has found success as an independent recording artist, composer and actor.
Marcus is an exceptional live entertainer which has resulted in amazing partnerships. He was part of the 30-year anniversary celebrations for Australian Catholic University’s Indigenous program, Yalbinga, performed with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra at The National Centre for Indigenous Excellence Reconciliation Action Week, and has secured residencies with both Voyages Sails in the Desert and on the Indian Pacific. He is a positive role model and advocate for diversity and inclusion, committed to using his voice to mentor and inspire young Australians.
Other career highlights include the Australian premiere of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (2017/18), playing Willie in Opera Australia’s Bran Nue Dae (2020), Opera Australia’s The Rabbits (2015), Belvoir St Theatre’s Barbara and the Camp Dogs (2020), Sydney Theatre Company’s The Secret River (2017) and most recently playing Frank Doyle in Queensland Theatre’s The Sunshine Club at QPAC (2022).
For Opera Queensland, Marcus performed his first solo recital for the Opera Queensland Studio Series (2022), featured in the 2021 touring production Are You Lonesome Tonight, performed at Festival of Outback Opera 2022, and wrote three new songs with and for students in Charleville, Quilpie and Cunnamulla as part of Opera Queensland’s project Composed in Queensland.
Jess Hitchcock
Jess Hitchcock is an Indigenous singer-songwriter stirring the Australian music and performing arts scene as a genre-defying force. Her powerful voice and knack for storytelling has her shining across pop, country, folk and opera, sharing the stage and studio with some of Australia's favourites.
Jess’ most notable release is the duet with Paul Kelly, ‘Everyday My Mother’s Voice’, earning standing ovations across the nation. Jess has also collaborated with Archie Roach, Tina Arena & Kate Miller-Heidke.
Jess’ songs are intentionally dramatic and playful. The first single, ‘I Don't Have The Heart’, was described by The Music as "an arena sized pop ballad".
When Jess is not on stage with her own band, or joining forces with Australian music legends, Jess lends her impressive mezzo-soprano vocals to select productions by leading performing arts companies, including Bangarra Dance Theatre and Opera Queensland.
Jess’ anticipated album, ‘Unbreakable’, is out June 30th
Irena Lysiuk
Since graduating from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in 2016 with a Graduate Diploma in Music Studies and in 2014 with a Bachelor of Music, Irena Lysiuk has worked extensively for Opera Queensland.
Irena played the role of Barbarina in Opera Queensland’s Le nozze di Figaro (2021), Gretel in Opera Queensland and shake & stir theatre co’s school touring production of Hansel and Gretel (2017-18) and Adina in FIZZ! (2016), as well as ensemble roles in Opera Queensland productions including Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore (2017), Don Giovanni (2018), A Flowering Tree (2019), Tosca (2019) and Orpheus and Eurydice (2019).
Most recently, Irena performed her first solo recital for the Opera Queensland Studio Series and was part of the cast of the acclaimed regional tour, Are You Lonesome Tonight, the most extensive regional tour in Opera Queensland’s 40 year history.
Turning to musical theatre, Irena played Rose Morris in Queensland Theatre’s The Sunshine Club at QPAC (2022), Carmen in Sweet Charity at the Brisbane Powerhouse (2019) and Anne Egerman in the Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra’s production of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music (2018). In 2018, Irena debuted the role of the Pussycat in Little Match Productions’ new opera The Owl & the Pussycat, and performed at CommGames Festival and Brisbane Festival 2018 at QPAC.
While studying at Queensland Conservatorium, Irena’s roles included Damigella in L’incoronazione di Poppea (2015), Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro (2013), Papagena in Die Zauberflöte – scenes (2012), and Una Novizia in Suor Angelica (2011).
In 2023, Irena will perform in The Little Red Company’s Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves, and joins the cast for Lady Sings the Maroons, returning to many Queensland towns following her success in Are You Lonesome Tonight
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Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young AC PSM, Governor of Queensland and Professor Graeme Nimmo RFD
OPERA QUEENSLAND BOARD
Chair Linda Apelt
Deputy Chair Anne Cross AM
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Director Judy Mather
Director Katie McNamara
Director Jody Currie
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Executive Producer Adam Tucker
Chief Financial Officer Christine McEwan
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Director of Development Megan Kair
Director of Technical Production Alex Loh
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Touring Technician (Audio)
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Touring Technician (Lighting/Staging)
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Touring Technician (Staging)
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Set Realisation
A Noble Event
Head of Wardrobe
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Assistant Head of Wardrobe
Bianca Bulley
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Tailor
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