Opera Australia embraces rapid COVID-19 testing to get back on stage We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Former operatic baritone Lyndon Terracini never keeps tickets from the productions in which he has been involved. But one is so historic he plans to frame it. “I’ll never forget March 14, 2020,” says Opera Australia’s artistic director. It was the second night of Attila, the little-performed Verdi classic staged in Australia only because of the agreement forged with Milan’s legendary opera house La Scala. “I was sitting in G25. We did two performances then we were kicked out of the Opera House,” Terracini says. “That night Australia went into COVID lockdown.”