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Opera Australia embraces rapid COVID-19 testing to get back on stage – Sydney Morning Herald
Artistic director Lyndon Terracini says his is the first major opera company to use rapid antigen testing, which delivers results in 15 minutes.
Figures vary, but the direct cost to the arts industry was at least 60,000 jobs lost and a $50 billion hole in the national economy.
Fast forward a year, and Opera Australia will unveil its second forgotten – which usually means too expensive to stage in Australia – Verdi masterpiece with La Scala on Tuesday.
This time, for Ernani, premiering at the Sydney Opera House, audiences will be as safe as they can be anywhere in the world.
Cast members of the Opera Australia production Ernani wait for COVID-19…
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