With the upcoming release of Katherine Wiles’ book No Autographs, Please! about life in the Opera Australia Chorus, Jansson J. Antmann talks to the chorister, her colleagues Annabelle Chaffey and Clifford Plumpton, and Chorus Master Paul Fitzsimon about their colourful careers and their favourite directors.

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A promotional image for Opera Australia’s Chorus! which plays at the Geelong Arts Centre in November. Photo supplied

“On a two-show Saturday, I can be a nun in the afternoon and a prostitute in the evening,” Katherine Wiles writes in her book No Autographs, Please! released this month.

A member of the Opera Australia Chorus since 2007, Wiles is well acquainted with the extreme demands placed on choristers and the wide variety of roles they...