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When the mountain changed its clothing

Created with the Carmina Slovenica choir, Heiner Goebbels’ latest work is a meditation on time and the end of innocence.

15 Sep 2014

Richard Watts

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German theatre-maker and composer Heiner Goebbels’ When the mountain changed its clothing – which has its Australian premiere next month at the Melbourne Festival – is an exploration of the inexorable changes wrought by the passage of time, expressed in music and song.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts