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Creatives slam Opera Australia

The lead creatives of Opera Australia’s Handa Opera production of Carmen on Sydney Harbour are angry that they have been excluded from a remounted production of the work.

22 Mar 2017 12:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Kate Wormald in Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour — Carmen 2013. Photo credit: James Morgan.

Set designer Brian Thomson AM, costume designer Julie Lynch and director Gale Edwards have issued a strongly worded statement over Opera Australia’s failure to invite them back to oversee Carmen on Sydney Harbor.

The joint statement from Brian Thomson AM, Julie Lynch and Gale Edwards is published in full below.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts