Adam Tucker has been announced as Executive Director of Opera Queensland.

With confirmation of Opera Queensland’s place in the 2025-2028 National Performing Arts Partnership Framework, Adam will work closely with the Board and Opera Queensland’s CEO & Artistic Director, Patrick Nolan, to oversee delivery of the company’s ambitious strategic plan.

Chair of Opera Queensland’s Board Linda Apelt celebrated Adam’s appointment stating, “The Board acknowledges Adam’s thoughtful and strategic approach to business development and stakeholder engagement, and we look forward to working with Adam to continue building Opera Queensland’s reputation as a nationally recognised leading performing arts organisation.”

Patrick Nolan CEO & Artistic Director remarks, “It is with great joy that we welcome Adam to the role of Executive Director. Since joining Opera Queensland at the beginning of 2021, Adam has embraced the many and various demands of ensuring our artists, creative workers and audiences are well looked after.  I look forward to this new role providing him with opportunities to show his exceptional leadership skills in the national arena. And given the ambitious plans and innovative programming he has been integral in developing, he is going to be very busy indeed!”

Adam says he is looking forward to supporting the company’s valuable role of providing career pathways for artists and arts workers and to make a difference for audiences across Queensland.

“Growing up in regional Queensland, I have a deep appreciation of the profound impact that the performing arts has on young people in geographically remote communities. I am excited by the important work of Opera Queensland across the state and look forward to supporting our company’s bold vision of building vibrant communities connected through the power of song and telling Queensland stories nationally and internationally,” he says.

Adam enjoyed a celebrated career as a dancer in Australia and the UK, followed by fifteen years in arts administration and most recently as Executive Director of Camerata, before joining Opera Queensland in 2021 as Executive Producer.

Alongside his work at Opera Queensland, Adam is completing a PhD at Queensland University of Technology, is a regular Peer Assessor of funding programs administered by Creative Australia and Arts Queensland and is Chair of the Advisory Committee of The Little Red Company. In recent years, Adam has acted as a mentor for international participants in Creative Australia’s Arts Leaders program and advocated in Parliament House for the value and role of arts and music for Australian communities.

In 2024 Opera Queensland’s vibrant program of activities has been celebrated with five-star reviews of Lucia Di Lammermoor featuring Jessica Pratt, performances at Queensland Music Trails, Opera at Jimbour, a regional tour to 20 Queensland communities and a fourth presentation of the hugely popular Festival of Outback Opera in Winton and Longreach with headline artist, Kate Miller-Heidke. In July a new production of Dido & Aeneas created in collaboration with Circa, opened to five-star reviews, this will be followed by a remount of OQ’s production of Così fan tutte in August with State Opera South Australia, and the world premiere of the Torres Strait Islander musical, Straight from the Strait, which opens Brisbane Festival 2024.

Opera Queensland acknowledges the support of the Brisbane City Council, Creative Australia and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

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