Opera for me is… a place of heightened experience and transformation and in which theatre becomes the mediumistic form for memories, dreams, projections and ecstatic possession.
Winner Music Theatre Now Award 2013, The Navigator
The Navigator (2007-08)
Opera in six scenes and a prelude. Libretto by Patricia Sykes
For 5 singers, 16 instrumentalists and electronics
Duration: 90 minutes
Publisher: Ricordi London
Full score on Issuu 
Free iTunes link for full opera video 
BUY CD (also on Spotify etc. but please buy the CD…) 
Commissioned by Brisbane Festival, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts and ELISION with funding from the Major Festivals Initiative
Premiere: 29 July 2008, Brisbane Festival, Judith Wright Centre
Singers: Deborah Kayser (Angel of History), Talise Trevigne (The Beloved),
Andrew Watts (The Navigator), Omar Ebrahim (The Fool), Philip Larsen (The Crone)
ELISION Ensemble, conductor Manuel Nawri
Directed by Barrie Kosky, stage designer Alice Babidge
Video: Excerpt of Scene 1: ‘The Unwinding’ including the ‘Angel of History’ aria (Featuring soprano Deborah Kayser)
The Navigator performance notes, libretto & Prelude
The Navigator Melbourne Festival Program
Interview with Jérémie Szpirglas, Festival d’Automne Paris, 2009
Performance history:
Brisbane International Festival of the Arts, 2008
Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, 2008
Chekhov International Theatre Festival, Fomenko Theatre, Moscow, 2009
L’Opéra Bastille Amphithéâtre, Festival d’Automne à Paris (in concert), 2009
Liza Lim 