Australia’s first stradivarius

The Australian reports that singers on 12 month contracts with Opera Australia will be rested for upto 12 weeks without pay in 2013. A representative of Actors’ Equity claims that this is to make way for the musical The King and I; OA artistic director Lyndon Terracini says it is due to “casting and financial considerations.”…

As if creating a ballroom on the harbour wasn’t challenging enough, Opera Australia will create a village in Seville on the water when it presents its second production of Hand Opera on the Harbour which in 2013 will be Bizet’s Carmen. Stage productions of Carmen in the past, have included a donkey and a horse. There…