Pecan Summer is an opera written and composed by the Indigenous Australian singer Deborah Cheetham, who also sang in every season. It was orchestrated by Jessica Wells.[1] It is the first opera written by an Indigenous Australian and involving an Indigenous cast. It is based on the February 1939 Cummeragunja walk-off,[2] in which Cheetham's grandparents were involved.
Pecan Summer was commissioned for the Olympic Arts Festival held in association with the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[3]
The libretto was written by Deborah Cheetham during a short stay in Lucca, Italy. The opera had its official world premiere at the WestSide Performing Arts Centre, Mooroopna, Victoria, on 8 October 2010, where it was presented by the Short Black Opera Company[2] and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra under David Kram.[1] It had an unofficial preview performance in Melbourne in July 2010.[4]
The timeline of the opera moves from the Dreamtime to July 2006, on the banks of the Yarra River near Federation Square in Melbourne; to 1939, on the banks of the Dhungala (Murray River) near the Cummeragunja Mission; to several months later in winter 1939; to Shepparton at an unspecified time; to Federation Square on 13 February 2008, the day of Kevin Rudd's apology.[1]
^"'Stolen Generation' singer debuts landmark Aboriginal opera" (AFP) The Independent, 21 July 2010
^ ab"Landmark Aboriginal opera debuts with 'Stolen Generation' soprano". Archive.today. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
^"Pecan Summer gets ready for their first performance at the Sydney Opera House". Sbs.com.au. 8 September 2016.
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