“Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.” YearsDoneAudienceExampleProduceSouthClassicAustraliaWorking ItOperaPacificBlockbusterNew Work Author:George Brandis
“Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.” FeelingsAudienceMissingProducePerformancesExcellentPianoSobrietyAbsorbingPianistHardwareCoolness Author:Donal Henahan