Kasper Holten was Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden from 2011 to 2017. In his previous eleven years as Artistic Director of the Royal Danish Opera he made audiences laugh, cry and, above all, engage in a series of provocative productions ranging from Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre to Lerner & Loewe’s … Continued
Kate’s first professional engagement was with the Munich-based modern dance company Iwanson Dance Company at the age of 16. She stayed in Munich for three years before returning to Australia in 1981 to join the One Extra Company under the artistic direction of Kai Tai Chan. In 1985, with a grant from the Australia Council, … Continued
In 1998, Julie Taymor became the first woman to win the Tony® Award for Best Direction of a Musical, and also won a Tony® for Best Costumes, for her landmark production of The Lion King. The musical has won three Molière Awards including Best Musical and Best Costumes, garnered Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and … Continued
J. D. McClatchy is the author of six collections of poems: Scenes From Another Life (Braziller, 1981), Stars Principal (Macmillan, 1986), The Rest of the Way (Knopf, 1990), Ten Commandments (Knopf, 1998), Hazmat (Knopf, 2002, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award), and Mercury Dressing (Knopf , 2009, … Continued
Jonathan Biggins is an actor, writer and director with a wide and varied stage career, perhaps best known for The Wharf Revue and most recently his one-man show The Gospel According to Paul. Jonathan’s notable acting credits include Travesties, The White Guard and Ying Tong for STC, The Importance of Being Earnest for MTC, and … Continued
Julie has worked extensively as a costume and set designer in Australian theatre and was Head of Costume at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) between 2000 and 2005. Julie has won three Sydney Theatre Awards and two Helpmann Awards for Best Costume Design. These awards were for: Travesties (Sydney Theatre Award 2009) for … Continued
John’s opera work includes, for Opera Australia, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Norma, The Mikado, Aida, The Little Mermaid, The Trojans Parts 1 & 2, Orpheus in the Underworld, Lulu, La Bohème, Salome, Two Weddings One Bride, Parsifal, Metamorphosis, Anna Bolena, Whitely, Ghost Sonata as well as Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour’s La Traviata (2012), Carmen (2013, … Continued
Background: Born, Australia. Studied Architecture at Sydney University OA repertoire: The Magic Flute, Ariadne auf Naxos, Patience, The Beggar’s Opera, Die Fledermaus, Les Huguenots, Capriccio, Don Carlos, A Streetcar Named Desire, Of Mice and Men, Die tote Stadt Other Companies: Opera – La clemenza di Tito (Royal Opera, Covent Garden); Patience, The Magic Flute, Don … Continued
John Bell is Artistic Director of Bell Shakespeare and one of Australia’s most acclaimed theatre personalities. In a career of acting and directing, John has been instrumental in shaping the Australian theatre industry as we know it. After graduating from Sydney University in 1962 John worked for the Old Tote Theatre Company, all of Australia’s … Continued
Background:Born, Australia. Awards include Best Choreographer Moulin Rouge American Choreography Awards, 2001; Australian Dance Award for Contribution to the Art of Dance, 1993; Golden Platypus Award for most popular event in Brisbane, 1999 OA repertoire: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Edinburgh Festival Critics Award) … Continued