Cheap tickets for opera first-timers

The Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation has gifted $1.5M to Opera Australia for a new access program in Sydney and Melbourne.
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Photo: Turandot promotional image courtesy Opera Australia. 

Opera is sometimes said to be an acquired taste – the problem being that it’s a taste many people cannot afford to develop, due to the prohibitive price of opera tickets. Long term patrons of Opera Australia Susan and Isaac Wakil hope to change that paradigm with the gift of $1.5 million over five years to provide significantly discounted tickets to people who have yet to experience an opera.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts