Editing Opera Australia (section)

===Modern Australian opera===
Opera Australia is committed to the long-term development and performance of modern Australian operas. Since 1974, OA has fully staged 12 new Australian operas and workshopped over 20 new works in various stages of development. The main new works staged by the company have been ''The Little Mermaid'' by [[Anne Boyd]] (1985); ''Metamorphosis'' by Brian Howard (1985); ''[[Voss (opera)|Voss]]'' by [[Richard Meale]] (1986); ''Whitsunday'' by Howard (1988); ''Mer de glace'' by Richard Meale (1992); ''The Golem'' by [[Larry Sitsky]] (1993); ''[[The Eighth Wonder]]'' by [[Alan John]] (1995); ''[[Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (opera)|Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' by [[Richard Mills (composer)|Richard Mills]] (1999); ''[[Batavia (opera)|Batavia]]'' by Richard Mills (2001); ''[[Love in the Age of Therapy]]'' by [[Paul Grabowsky]] (OzOpera 2002); ''[[Lindy (opera)|Lindy]]'' by [[Moya Henderson]] (2003); ''[[Madeline Lee (opera)|Madeline Lee]]'' by John Haddock (2004); ''[[Bliss (opera)|Bliss]]'' (2010) by [[Brett Dean]]; and ''[[The Rabbits]]'' by [[Kate Miller-Heidke|Kate Miller Heidke]] (2015).<ref>{{harvnb|Oxenbould|2005|pp=700–707}} Not all repertoire lists are complete. Check bibliography for full in-text references.</ref> In 2015, OA produced the television opera ''[[The Divorce (TV series)|The Divorce]]'' by [[Elena Kats-Chernin]] and [[Joanna Murray-Smith]] based on an original idea by Terracini for [[ABC (Australian TV channel)|ABC Television]].