The Love of the Nightingale (opera)

[1] The production was shown later that year at the Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane,[2] and at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, with Richard Gill conducting.

[4][5] The play is a myth about men and women and the condition and experience of women in a patriarchy: fate, sexual conflict, suffering, female desire, the Apollonian and Dionysian and metamorphosis are its elements, but in the words of the drama, "We cannot rephrase it for you.

Themes: The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker positions the viewer to consider specifically the abuse of women and authority by men, and their supposed inability to "ask questions" and tendency to block out all forms of criticism.

The concept that violence stems from silence is also dealt with in the opera, with greater scrutiny than in the play.

The pen is mightier than the sword goes the old expression, yes, but it should be added that those who cannot use a pen will use a sword instead.The message that the 3000-year-old myth of Philomele, Procne and Tereus carries from the ancient world to audiences in Australia in 2007 is that the power of words, the use of words – and particularly the ability to ask questions – is both a human right and a human responsibility.Plot: Minor plot details are changed in the opera.