Michael Ewans

Michael Ewans is a Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. For many years he conducted practical research into Greek tragedy and comedy, staging his own new accurate but actable translations in a replica of the ancient Greek theatre shape to test ideas about how the dramas might have originally been staged, and how they might best be staged today. The results are published in his editions in translation of Aeschylus and Sophocles (Everyman) and Aristophanes (Oklahoma UP).. He has also written three books about opera, concentrating on the ways in which words and music interact to create a unified theater experience; Janácek's Tragic Operas, Wagner and Aeschylus: the 'Ring' and the 'Oresteia', and Opera from the Greek: Studies in the Poetics of Appropriation. He is currently working on a new opera book, under the working title of Drama Stagecraft and Music in Opera, which analyses performances of scenes from 23 operas from Mozart to Britten and Tippett.