Bracks Commands Opera Rescue For A Niche City

PREMIER Steve Bracks is considering ambitious plans to turn Victoria into a national hub for innovative opera aimed at producing a new generation of composers, directors, librettists, singers and set designers for the national stage.

Taking Text To The Stage

The idea of turning Les Miserables into an opera is nothing new. Puccini and other 19th century composers contemplated the idea but it didn't actually happen until the 1970s.