HENDERSON: Lindy

Moya Henderson (1941-)

Judith Rodriguez - libretto

Opera Australia

World Premiere

Moya Henderson's work as a composer has also led her into the field of instrument design. While in Germany in the mid-seventies she received a commission from the sculptor Helfried Hagenberg to compose music to be played on a sculpture he had created from twenty-seven triangles. The sound she discovered during the course of completing this commission led her to research and eventually develop the alemba, a keyboard percussion instrument.

Henderson's opera, Lindy (1997), based on the Azaria Chamberlain case, received its premiere by Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House in October 2002.

Recording comes with full libretto and extensive notes in booklet form.