August 2024
Sharing a $6.40 birthday cake with star Sarah Brightman
The world-famous performer is not too grand to enjoy a treat from Woolies as she promotes her role in Sunset Boulevard.
- Michael Bailey
October 2023
Sarah Brightman’s first musical in 30 years an Opera Australia coup
Phantom of the Opera legend stars in world premiere of a new production of Sunset Boulevard, highlighting OA season that leans heavily into female and local talent.
- Michael Bailey
May 2023
‘40pc inflation’: Opera Australia’s low note as staging costs soar
The country’s largest performing arts company is passing around the hat, and relying on musical theatre productions, as it faces savage cost increases.
- Michael Bailey
August 2022
This billionaire impresario pays himself every five years
Sir Cameron Mackintosh, the man behind ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ and ‘Mary Poppins’, may say he doesn’t care about money but he’s very good at making it.
- Andrew Burke
December 2021
Opera Australia CEO’s first job is to save the show
As Fiona Allan settles into the country’s largest performing arts company, she’s rolling up her sleeves to go into battle for the COVID-19 ravaged Australian arts industry.
- Michael Bailey
September 2020
Is it curtains for London's storied theatre scene?
Andrew Lloyd Webber, the impresario behind Phantom of the Opera, is worried London's West End could become a ghost town.
- Hans van Leeuwen