74, is a chamber opera by the Australian composer Andrew Schultz to a libretto by Glenn Perry, based on the 1984 novella of the same name by Helen Garner.
The work was commissioned by the Melbourne-based group Chamber Made and their artistic director Douglas Horton with the aid of an Australia Council Project Fellowship; it premiered for a run of 15 performances at the Malthouse Theatre's Merlyn Theatre on 20 June 2008.
[1] The opera was performed and recorded at the 2019 Canberra International Music Festival, conducted by Roland Peelman.
[3][4] The work is of 80 minutes duration and is scored for a cast of six, and six instrumentalists (violin, cello, double bass, clarinet, percussion, piano).
The Children’s Bach is a contemporary story set on the banks of Merri Creek in inner-suburban Melbourne.