Tune into ABC Melbourne at 9:30pm to hear Emma Muir-Smith and #SimonBruckard chatting to David Astle about their first opera, #TheSelfishGiant, ahead of its #worldpremiere.

So proud 🥰

So stoked that Selfish Giant has been nominated for FOUR Green Room Awards!! Congrats to CMenzies (direction), James Browne (design), the epic ensemble cast Victorian Opera and of course Simon Bruckard for our joint musical achievement nom! Thanks y’all, I’m proud af 🙏🥰🥳

Hooray!! Congratulations to Emma Muir-Smith and #SimonBruckard on their very well-deserved Green Room Awards for their incredibly charming new opera #voSelfishGiant! ❤️🌷❄️

Bit late (been busy w Netflix): Totally over the moon to have won at the Green Room Awards last week! Huge thanks to Victorian Opera, the wonderful team/cast, everyone who helped along the way, and to the audiences who came to see the show and support the making of new opera!

Congratulations to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and all the associated artists for this playful and necessary public health campaign: artshub.com.au/2021/07/19/art…

To all the incredibly generous artists who donated their time and energy to this: thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. Please share, please get vaccinated when you can.

The kind of vaccination ad that brings a tear to the eye. Here's to being back on stage - and backstage, and Front of House, and behind the bar - very damn soon. youtu.be/fDfug35d5fU

Oh oh OH!! I’m so proud to be a part of this! Oh my heart!

Couldn't be prouder of Victoria, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for asking Emma Muir-Smith to put pen to paper and here's the result!

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra along with Australian Ballet, Melbourne Theatre Company, Victorian Opera and Malthouse Theatre have teamed up to make possibly the best vaccination awareness campaign in Australia #viclockdown timeout.com/melbourne/news…

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Australian Ballet Melbourne Opera Melbourne Theatre Company Victorian Opera Chief Health Officer, Victoria applauds the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Australian Ballet MelbTheatreReview Victorian Opera ad. #PerformanceOfALifetime

This is an initiative of the wonderful Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and is an appeal to Victorians. But the message is for all Aussies. youtube.com/watch?v=fDfug3…

Congrats to one of our School's health communications lecturers Emma Muir-Smith on writing this fabulous COVID #vaccination ad, funded by the Victorian Arts sector. What a wonderful initiative! #healthcomms #PerfomanceOfALifetime

It's about time someone stepped in. pedestrian.tv/news/victoria-…

Let’s!

‘We wanted a vaccine ad based on hope’: arts and community sector PSAs fill government ‘vacuum’ theguardian.com/australia-news…

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s grassroots vaccine campaign featuring real artists from Victoria’s diverse arts community demonstrates the power of authenticity. bit.ly/3zyOeBL

Enormous thanks to the brilliant people at SBS Australia for helping us get the message out nationally! C'mon Aus, we got this!