Eva Kong in John Adams’ A Flowering Tree, which is being staged by Opera Queensland in conjunction with the New Opera Workshop. Photo credit: Stephanie Do Rozario.
Opera is in crisis – globally. Companies are facing diminishing audiences and financial woes, while the artform itself is regularly accused of being elitist, exclusive and increasingly fixated on a narrow canon of works including Carmen, La traviata, La bohéme, Madama Butterfly and Rigoletto.
