Glenn Perry

This article is about the Australian writer. For the first Chief Accountant of the US SEC, see L. Glenn Perry.

Glenn Perry is an Australian writer and opera librettist.

He is notable for his librettos for Julian Yu's operas Fresh Ghosts (1997) and The Possessed (2003).[1] Perry received a grant in 2002 from the Australia Council for the writing of The Obsessed.[2] He wrote the libretto for the operatic version of Helen Garner's novella The Children's Bach.[3][4] For this work, Perry received the 2007 RE Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Award.[5]

He has also adapted Australian children's author Morris Gleitzman's book Second Childhood for the stage.[6]

Perry is currently working on an operatic treatment of Tim Winton's That Eye, the Sky for Julian Yu and ChamberMade Opera.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Glenn Perry". Australian Stage Online. 17 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
  2. ↑ Australian Government, Hansard 2 December 2002, p. 144
  3. ↑ "Garnering the song of 'Bach'". The Age. 17 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
  4. ↑ "The children's Bach [music]: opera in two acts / composer Andrew Schultz ; librettist Glenn Perry ; after the novel by Helen Garner". National Library of Australia. 17 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-31. delete character in |title= at position 21 (help)
  5. ↑ Australian Musicals Development Inc.: News Archive — October 2007
  6. ↑ Second childhood: the play. National Library of Australia. ISBN 978-0-14-330012-0. Retrieved 2008-11-01.

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