Why Write an Opera About a Netball Team? (And What Is Netball, Anyway?)

Angus Grant, on his new chamber opera, Contact!, ”There’s something about the restrictiveness of netball. The rules, how you’re allotted a position and a function and you can’t go out of your prescribed zone. The tense female dynamic. It seemed ripe for the picking.” (Netball is a Commonwealth version of women’s basketball.)