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''The Young Kabbarli'' is a one-act chamber opera written in 1964 by the Australian composer Margaret Sutherland; it is her only work in the operatic genre. The libretto was by Maie Casey, based on poetry by Judith Wright and Shaw Neilson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sutherland, Margaret Ada - Woman - The Australian Women's Register )〕 The plot is based on an episode in the life of the Irish-Australian welfare worker and anthropologist Daisy Bates. Bates was given the affectionate name 'Kabbarli', meaning 'grandmotherly person'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bates, Daisy May - Woman - The Australian Women's Register )〕 ''The Young Kabbarli'' has four singing roles (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, bass) and three non-singing roles. It is scored for 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, bassoon, horn, percussion (castanets, wood block, sticks, flints, wooden shaker), piano, viola, and double bass.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Score: The young Kabbarli : a chamber opera in one act / libretto, Maie Casey ; () Margaret Sutherland. () : Product : Australian Music Centre )〕 ''The Young Kabbarli'' was premiered in August 1965 at the Festival of Contemporary Opera and Music, at the Theatre Royal in Hobart,〔 as a companion piece to Larry Sitsky's ''The Fall of the House of Usher''. Sitsky's piece was well-received, Sutherland's less so.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Margaret Sutherland )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Steady Storm of Correspondence )〕 It received performances by the State Opera of South Australia in Adelaide and in Melbourne in 1972.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Margaret Sutherland : Represented Artist Profile : Australian Music Centre )〕 ''The Young Kabbarli'' was recorded in 1973 at Flinders University, Adelaide. It was the first Australian opera recorded in Australia,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sutherland, Margaret Ada - Woman - The Australian Women's Register )〕 and it was the first quadraphonic disc made in Australia.〔(jstor )〕 The singers were Genty Stevens, mezzo-soprano, Daisy Bates/Kabbarli; Dean Patterson, baritone, Goondowell; Carol Kohler, soprano, Goondowell's wife Yoolbian;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ABC Classic FM Music Details: Monday 6 December 1999 )〕 John McKenzie, bass-baritone, Trappist Brother; David Gulpilil (as David Gumpilil), Aboriginal singer; New Opera of South Australia, conducted by Patrick Thomas.〔(Australian Music Centre )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Australian music in Trove )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ABC Classic FM Music Details: Sunday 16 November 1997 )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Young Kabbarli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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