Australian Diva, Dame Joan Hammond, lived a complex, colourful and glamorous life. She popularised the arias from Tosca, Butterfly, Aida and Salome. When her performing days were over she then taught a new generation of operatic singers. Sara Hardy’s biography of Dame Joan Hammond captures Joan’s life in all its complexity. Sara Hardy has been an actor and playwright and the biographer of the famous landscape designer Edna Walling. Sara Hardy will talk about Dame Joan Hammond and how she came to write this book. The talk is on Tuesday, 23 June 2009 at 7:00 PM
Free but bookings essential

Call 8325 1950
LOCATION: Sam Merrifield Library

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