The cast of Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour — Carmen 2017. Photo credit: Prudence Upton.
Last week, only days before the opening night of Opera Australia’s remounted Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour — Carmen, the original creative team stated their concerns that ‘the public will [not] see the production as it was originally intended to be’. They also expressed anger over Opera Australia’s alleged failure to invite them back to oversee the remounted production, despite ‘multiple overtures to the Company offering our services’.
