Instrumentation

Rites: perc(4): - pno (with opt tape echo), SATBchorus, dancers Chorales: 2 tuba - perc(3): - pno(with opt tape echo) - 6 vlc.4 db, SATB chorus

Availability

Score, vocal score and parts for hire

Rites of Passage

Llewellyn Hall, Australian National University (Canberra, ACT, Australia)

Canberra Festival Choir/Roland Peelman/dir. Peter Sculthorpe/Synergy/Wood

Rites of Passage

Chorales only

Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House (Sydney, NSW, Australia)

Grundy/Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir/Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Rites of Passage

ABC Classic FM (Australia)

Rites of Passage

Sydney Opera House (Sydney, NSW, Australia)

Australian Opera Chorus/Geoffrey Arnold/Australian Dance Theatre/Sydney Elizabethan Trust Orchestra/John Hopkins

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'Rites of Passage' reviews

‘There have been many attempts to write an Australian opera. None has succeeded as Sculthorpe has … It comes across with a strong immediacy of emotional conviction. Beneath that, you can sense a depth and density of thought and experience which suggests a lasting masterpiece.’ The Bulletin (Brian Hoad)
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