WHY ARE WE FUNDRAISING?
This fundraising Community Concert Series is one element in a multi-pronged attempt to secure a long-term future for Co-Opera. For 20 of our 35 years, we received generous State and Federal Public funding [av. $500K p.a.] which allowed us to tour extensively throughout Australia, SE Asia and Europe. Today, public funding is the exception rather than the rule and makes no contribution to medium and long-term planning. Our future therefore now depends entirely on our capacity to attract funding from private sources. We already maximise receipts from ticket sales…..but subsidy is needed to balance budgets. We are targeting a capital sum of $3M because the interest accrued would allow us to develop one mediumsized or two small-scaled productions per year for our raft of singers to use as vehicles to maintain their professional artistry. This would allow us to continue bringing affordable chamber-sized productions of operatic magic to the urban and regional communities who have enjoyed them for so long.
2028 is our watershed year. With extraordinary generosity from the Royal Commonwealth Society of SA and Henkel Bros Investment Managers, we have secured funding for 2026 and 2027 [see Co-Opera’s 2025-2027 PROSPECTUS]. But beyond 2027 nothing is secured. Therefore, our shoulders are to the wheel now!
CO-OPERA : $3M : 2028
Libby Ellis OAM, Chair, Board of Management
OUR PIANO IS A SYMBOL OF CO-OPERA’S QUEST TO SECURE ITS FUTURE
There aren’t many pianos that have travelled 550,000kms accompanying boutique performances for opera-loving communities. That’s what Co-Opera’s has done in Australia over the 35 years since we began. It’s probably the only one in Australia. It now betrays its hard life on the road in the way it looks……but it still sounds fine and has many more performing kilometres left to give. The piano is a symbol of Co-Opera’s raison d’etre as we explore ways of finding some certainty of a medium and long-term future for our beloved company. Celebrated Adelaide artist, Emma Hack, has given our piano a new lease of visual life by painting the instrument in her famous signature style. We are using this gesture to trigger a fund-raising campaign targeting $3 million, the capital sum whose interest would give Co-Opera existential confidence in the long term.
Brian Chatterton OAM, Artistic Director
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LIBBY ELLIS
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