New Artistic Director for Victorian Opera

Stuart Maunder AM is moving states and companies, farewelling State Opera South Australia to lead the flagship Victorian company.

Described as ‘a formidable force in the operatic landscape as both a director and Artistic Director,’ and a man of ‘immense theatrical insight’ by Genevieve Overell AM, Chair of the Victorian Opera Board, celebrated Australian opera and musical theatre director Stuart Maunder AM has been named the next Artistic Director of Victorian Opera.

Overell said she and the Board were ‘delighted’ at the appointment: ‘[Stuart’s] collaborations with our company across many years have proven hugely successful and remained much-loved with our audiences.’

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Richard Watts OAM 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, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts