Musicals such as The King and I bring the crowds – but should a state-funded opera company be staging them? Photo: Brian Geach. Opera Australia Why is Opera Australia staging The King and I? The ...

As a schoolboy, I had always wanted to work in theatre of some sort. Opera was not my first choice but, as fate would have it, I landed a job as a young management accountant at The Australian Opera ...

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But Davies, having seen the American choreographer’s work in Tony and Olivier-nominated shows throughout London and New York, insisted upon Yee finding her own interpretation: “She said, ‘just listen ...

“I don’t think anyone leaves an opera company to start up another opera company,” he says with a wry laugh. Nevertheless, that’s what he’s done – albeit on a much smaller scale than the national opera ...