{"id":846804,"date":"2026-08-07T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846804\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:12:10","slug":"dreamtime-stories-and-opera-combine-in-new-take-on-australian-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846804\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamtime stories and opera combine in new take on Australian classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dreamtime stories and opera combine in new take on Australian classic<\/p>\n<p>Published 7 August 2026, 7:08 am<\/p>\n<p>A landmark Australian story is being reimagined once again \u2014 this time as an opera. Leah Purcell&#8217;s latest iteration of \u2018The Drover&#8217;s Wife\u2019 has arrived in Sydney, blending the grand tradition of opera with contemporary Aboriginal storytelling. Building on her novel, play and film, it\u2019s being brought to life by an exciting new generation of Indigenous performers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dreamtime stories and opera combine in new take on Australian classic Published 7 August 2026, 7:08 am A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-846804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}