This month's features explore the magical appeal of A Christmas Carol, the challenges facing our cultural sector and why soprano Siobhan Stagg is in such demand. We also reveal the 2022 Limelight Artists of the Year.
"Employ more women," says Opera Australia CEO Fiona Allan, one of six women, including Simone Young and Deborah Cheetham, interviewed in a new documentary by Miriam Gordon-Stewart.
Lyndon Terracini has decided to leave his role as Artistic Director of OA at the end of October, rather than the end of 2023, to make way for his successor and focus on his own future.
Rod Sims, former Chair of the ACCC and passionate opera lover, discusses "moving the dial" at OA by increasing the number of Australian singers, doing more in Melbourne and becoming a truly national company.
A round-up of our recent news reports.
OA CEO Fiona Allan discusses the 2021 Annual Report, the challenges ahead, the new warehouse and regional opera "outpost" the company is building, and "the different beast" that OA will become from 2024.
As Opera Australia searches for a new Artistic Director, Peter Tregear argues that it’s time for the company to find a fresh artistic vision predicated on the belief that opera has something important to offer the public.
A round-up of our recent news reports.
The company has already begun an international search for its next Artistic Director; Terracini will continue to work on Opera on Sydney Harbour post-2023 in an Emeritus role.
Arts events planned for January face an uncertain Christmas with NSW reporting record COVID case numbers.
Fiona Allan arrives at OA later this year with her eyes wide open, having dealt with similar challenges at the Birmingham Hippodrome due to COVID restrictions.
Sydney-born Fiona Allan will return to Australia to take up the position of Opera Australia CEO after working in the UK since 2004.
In the wake of multiple allegations of sexual assault against the conductor, the RPO has announced that Dutoit will vacate his posts before his originally intended departure.
