Indoor performances were not strictly prohibited in recent months, but the opera had not opened its doors to the public, and had had to delay this resumption due to of a local rise in the epidemic in December . Since then, the mask is compulsory in theaters, and the authorities could take stronger measures if the local household did not go out. 
“I have no idea what will happen next”, loose Julie Lea Goodwin, the soprano who will lead the opera with Alexander Lewis, saying he is very “enthusiastic” about returning to the stage after nine months of uncertainty. “I think Australia is doing a great job … But we still have a year I would say, maybe more”, she regrets.
Australia recorded 28. 400 positive cases in Covid – 19 since the start of the pandemic, including 909 dead, out of a population of approximately 20 millions.