Assembling Voyage to the Moon: Emotion, creativity, and historicity in a new Australian opera

Abstract

This chapter explores how emotions, creativity and historicity operated in the production of a new Australian pasticcio opera, Voyage to the Moon (2016). The pasticcio is an operatic sub-genre introduced in the seventeenth century that showcased familiar arias alongside arias taken from lesser-known works to assist composer-arrangers in structuring new works. The researchers investigated the collaborations of the three partnering institutions supporting the opera and the contributions of the creative team from librettist and director to musicians, as well as reflecting on their own positions as ethnographers within the project. The analysis offers insights into the distributed creativity und..