biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1948– )
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| biography:
| Singer and actress, born in Adelaide, South Australia. She studied at Adelaide University and became a teacher of English until 1974, when she took up a singing career. In 1975 she played Jenny in Weill's Threepenny Opera, since when her name has been linked particularly with the German cabaret songs of Weill, Eisler, and Dessau. Her one-woman cabaret A Star is Torn (1979) and her 1981 show The Pack of Women both became successful books and recordings, the latter also being produced for television in 1986. In 1989 she was commissioned to write a new opera, Mambo, for the Nexus Opera, London. She was artistic director of the 1998 and 2000 Adelaide Festivals. |
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