Recital was one of Chamber Made’s most toured works, celebrated from Caracas to Covent Garden. Recital offers satirical profundity from a rich and humorous examination of operatic myths, staged with Beckettian simplicity.

Involving ten of the world’s best known and best loved arias and David Chesworth’s witty and original score, Recital is a highly original hybrid of opera and theatre. As much satire as celebration of ‘high art’, the distinction between the life of a performer, and life as performance, blurs with telling consequences.

Text by Douglas Horton in collaboration with Helen Noonan

Original music by David Chesworth. Arias by Puccini, Pergolesi, Mozart et al.

2004 Nomination, Green Room Awards, Female Singer in Principal Role [Helen Noonan]

1989 Victorian Arts Centre, Anthill Theatre, Universal Theatre, World Premiere

1990 Castlemaine Market and Her Majesty’s Theatre, Ballarat [5 – 8 November]

1990 Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane [13 – 24 November]

1990 Civic Theatre, Burnie; TSIT Theatre, Launceston; Theatre Royal, Hobart (2 October – 6 October]

1990 Anthill Theatre, Melbourne Fringe Festival, [12 – 29 September]

1990 Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney in Association with Musica Viva and the Australian Opera [10 April – 29 April]

1991 Alice Springs, Canberra, Adelaide

1992 Edinburgh Fringe Festival [14 August – 5 September]

1992 Caracas International Festival, Venezuela [14 – 17 April]

1992 National Theatre, St Kilda, Australia [4 – 5 April]

1993 Open University Theatre, Milton Keynes, UK [9 – 13 June]

1993 Covent Garden Opera Festival, The Donmar Warehouse London, UK [26 – 29 May]

1994 Memorial Theatre Wellington, New Zealand Festival of the Arts, NZ [15 – 26 March]

1994 Dolphin Theatre, Perth Festival, Australia [22 – 26 February]

1994 Hong Kong Cultural Centre Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Festival [1 – 5 March]

1995 Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne [21 – 24 June]

1996 Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Santafe de Bogota, Colombia [27 – 31 March]

1996 Festival Internacional de Las Artes de Costa Rica [22 – 23 March]

2004 South Korean tour – Seoul, Daegu, Busan [March]

2004 Victorian tour – Shepparton, Portland, Sale, Castlemaine, Warburton, Bayswater [July – August]

2005 Merlyn Theatre, Malthouse Theatre [June]