Julie Andrews has been a beloved and much-honored star of stage, screen and television for more than half a century. She was already a Broadway legend when she made her feature film debut in 1964’s Mary Poppins. Andrews’ iconic performance in the title role of the magical nanny brought her an Academy Award®, a Golden … Continued

John Marsden was born in Victoria, Australia in 1950. He went to many different primary schools, and from an early age enjoyed the journeys into magical worlds that reading could provide. His teachers in Grade 4 and Grade 6 encouraged him to write, and at the age of nine he decided he wanted to become … Continued

Ukrainian Andrei Bondarenko is one of the most exciting young baritones of today, having worked extensively with Valery Gergiev, Ivor Bolton, Yannik Nézet-Séguin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vasily Petrenko, Enrique Mazzola, Kirill Karabits, Andrew Litton, Teodor Currentzis, Emanuelle Villaume, Michael Sturminger, Omer Meir Wellber and Mikhail Tatarnikov. Recent engagements include: a new production of La Bohème and … Continued

A graduate of Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Julia McRae has sung extensively with Opera Queensland, Opera Australia and OzOpera. Her career includes a long list of concert credits, as well as corporate entertainment with Singers for Hire and Australian Global Entertainment. She has won an American Institute of Musical Studies Scholarship and was a finalist … Continued

Born in Casablanca, Morocco, of Italian and Polish parents, Bruno Ravella studied in France then moved to London in 1991 as soon as he graduated. His early apprenticeship consisted in assisting directors such as John Cox, Sir David McVicar, Robert Carsen or Barrie Kosky, and reviving productions in houses such as the Royal Opera House, … Continued

Scott lives in New York and has designed lighting for theatre, dance, and opera throughout the world. Opera highlights include Miss Fortune for Bregenzer Festspiele and Royal Opera House, The Magic Flute for Canadian Opera Company, L’Orfeo for English National Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor for Houston Grand Opera and New York City Opera, Matsukaze for … Continued

Evan graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2011 with a Bachelor of Music Theatre. Most recently he played Francis in La Cage Aux Folles with The Production Company, Neville Anderson in David Williamson’s Third World Blues with Company Eleven and Neville Gruber in the premiere of new Australian musical Dreamsong. Previously he … Continued

Jan’s theatre credits include Douglas in Seminar with Pop Culture Theatre, Tim/Rolf in Cyberia/The Magic Words, Gabe in Far Out! at NYC Fringefest, understudy for Goran in the Australian tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Boy From Oz, Music Man, Anything Goes, Promises, Promises and The Pirates Of Penzance with The Production Company. … Continued

Acclaimed internationally as one of the finest lyric tenors of his generation, Castronovo has also sung at most of the world’s leading opera houses such as the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Paris Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Theatre Royale de la Monnaie, Brussels, and many others including at the Salzburg and Aix … Continued