Librettos
Written by Chester Eagle
Cover design by Vane Lindesay
DTP work by Karen Wilson
Circa 54,000 words
Electronic publication 2007 by Trojan Press
There’s
nothing new to be said about power. Everybody
knows everything about it. Yet it surprises us continually.
The librettos in this collection remind us, once again, and
with a few bites in the backside here and there, of what people – nasties
like Stalin, heroes like Beethoven – have done with it.
Observers of Australian politics will know what some of these
operas are about; in fact, the effect of the collection is
to remind us that we are all on stage, day and night, in the
crazy opera known as life - or would you prefer that with a
capital L?
The
Introduction and separate librettos are available as follows:
