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$3 million risk on Bolshoi tour

Queensland has had a massive coup securing an exclusive season of the Bolshoi Ballet but the tour is an expensive gamble.
19 Apr 2013
Richard Watts
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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend. 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

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