Ghost Sonata

Aribert Reimann’s 1984 opera is a haunting and evocative chamber work, exploring Strindberg’s moody text with complex rhythms and other-worldly tones. This staging takes place in the Opera Australia workshop in Surry Hills. Down a nondescript set of stairs, behind a blank door, the cavernous workshop is filled with magic: the half-finished props and set-pieces of a hundred stories, a hundred shows. Director Greg Eldridge creates Strindberg’s Stockholm in the midst of these other worlds.