Anna Lapwood is disengaged

The Board of Opera Australia has parted company with C EO Fiona Allan after just over three years. She’s looking for another job abroad. Heavily massaged statements follow: OA Chair Rod Sims said: ‘Fiona’s tireless […]

In my very early teens, I sneaked into an over-16s ‘A’ film of an all-black casting of Bizet’s opera Carmen. Never having seen Carmen in an opera house, I was overwhelmed and not a little […]

No sooner has the Metropolitan Opera rolled out plans for a new Wagner Ring than the Dallas Symphony announces concert performances of all four operas (Oct 13, 15, 17, 20), as well as standalone Siegfried […]