The light sentence handed down to Saunders and Burgess provoked the passage last November of a new law, which would give people who intentionally or recklessly damage the opera house a jail term of up to seven years.
Burgess told the ABC that he was relieved to have paid his debt, but that he didn't regret his actions. "I think it was an action that had to be done," he said. "I think it spoke the feelings of Australia."
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The South African soprano is singing Die Frau ohne Schatten and Salome at the Metropolitan Opera.
The new choral work will be performed at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
The company will give six weeks of performances this summer at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Performances of the comic operetta will run January 4-12, 2025 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater.
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