Andrew Ford: We begin today's program with Stuart Maunder. He's directing Opera Australia's new double bill of music by Gilbert & Sullivan, 'Trial by Jury' and 'HMS Pinafore', and I think we should ...

Stuart Maunder, an Australian-born international opera director and arts manager, has been appointed General Director of New Zealand Opera. Stuart Maunder has worked in the opera world for the past 35 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. “I never believe anybody when they say they don’t like opera,” says Stuart Maunder. The newly announced incoming artistic director for ...

NZ Opera General Director Stuart Maunder’s new production of Tosca brings home New Zealand’s most celebrated living tenor for his first major opera role here in over a decade. Simon O’Neill, who has ...

EXECUTIVE director Yarmila Alfonzetti and artistic director Stuart Maunder have been appointed to lead the State Opera of South Australia for at least the next three years. Executive director Yarmila ...

When Stuart Maunder staged The Mikado in Brisbane, a critic said it was a "fizzing riot of red and pink polka dots, demure bows and twinkling hairpins". It's been too long since Auckland has enjoyed a ...

The State Opera of South Australia's 2019 season boasts the most powerful and impressive program in recent times thanks to a new artistic and executive leadership for the company. In the first program ...

STUART Maunder has big plans for Opera Queensland's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. "We are dragging the piece kicking and laughing into the 21st century," he says. The director of ...

Catchy tunes from Andrew Lloyd Webber's expansive repertoire have become part of popular culture. Those haunting melodies from Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Evita have found a way into the hearts of ...

Stuart Maunder: Without doubt. I think it was Alan J. Lehrner referred to him as 'the Adam of modern lyric writers', and people like Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Ira ...

HK Magazine: How does your background and experience in opera help influence your work with musicals? Is it a different or a similar process? Stuart Maunder: No, there really isn’t a difference—you’re ...