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OperaQ’s new artistic director will woo new artists and audiences

'If you're not developing the form in new and different ways, then I think you’re failing as an arts organisation,' says new AD.

28 Apr 2017 12:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

OperaQ’s new AD Patrick Nolan, image supplied.

The former artistic director of physical theatre company Legs On The Wall, Patrick Nolan, has been appointed as the new artistic director of Opera Queensland.

OperaQ is currently on notice as a result of the National Opera Review, having been given three years to turn its finances around or lose its status as a member of the Australian Major Performing Arts Group.

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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