Giovanni

Giovanni Opera in three short acts by Alfred Hill (1913), text by Harriet Callan. It tells of a provincial Italian sculptor who, jilted by his royal patroness and lover in Florence, returns to his first sweetheart. First performed by the Australian Opera League at Sydney on 3 August 1914, then at Melbourne. A modern edition has been published, edited by Haydn Reeder, Kerry Murphy and Jennifer Hill (Melbourne: Centre for Studies in Australian Music, University of Melbourne, 1994), and the opera…