"A wonderfully hybrid and carnivalesque romp, FIGARO is a triumphantly successful product of Stage X's looking at what performance skills are out there and alchemising something inventive, hybrid and funny out of them which seduces audience factions to encounter different art forms.  It dares, and it wins."

THE AUSTRALIAN, 1997.

 This collaboration between the QLD Conservatorium of Music and Zen Zen Zo for the inaugural Stage X festival explored the divide between high and low art.  Paralleling this famous opera's master-servant relationships, the 12 opera singers and 10 clowns battled it out for supremacy on the stage of the historic Masonic Hall in Ann St.  Loud, funny, colourful, and terribly controversial, this production divided the theatre and opera-going worlds!

Title:                          
The Marriage of Figaro

Dates:                       
27 August - 7 September, 1997 (Co-production with the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Stage X Festival)

Venue: 
The Masonic Hall, Brisbane

Director:                    
Simon Woods

Clowning Director:  
Russell Dykstra

Musical Director:     
John Winter

Designer:                  
Rachel Konyi

Designer:                  
Kate Stewart

Lighting Designer:  
Adam White

Clowns:                     
Martin Challis, Laurel Collins, Andrew Cory, Jared House, Lewis Jones, Jason Klarwein, Rebecca Murray, Penny Wilkinson, Scott Witt

Opera Singers:       
Caroline Chown, Sarah Crane, Jacqui Devereaux, Shannon Foley, Andrew George, Steven Kickbush, Kim Kirkman, Carmell Parente Spencer Silby, David Woloszko