Staging Agency with Megan Steller DECLASSIFY

For this episode of Declassify we are joined by one of the most passionate people I know, Megan Steller. Megan is an artist manager, writer, speaker, and producer based in Melbourne. She is passionate about working with emerging artists and seasoned performers alike to help create fulfilling, diverse and creatively empowering careers in the classical music sector. As an artist manager, Megan has worked at Intermusica (UK) and Patrick Togher Artists’ Management (AUS). As a journalist, she has been published in Limelight Magazine, The Age, and The Music, and has worked in a freelance capacity for Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Musica Viva, Melbourne Youth Orchestras, and Orchestra Victoria. With such an incredibly broad range of skills and experiences, this episode is all about the significance of community and resource-sharing across the classical music industry, the sometimes-unknown world of being an artist manager (or agent) and us asking, what about opera?
 Selected Resources (many more in the transcript):

Megan Steller
http://www.megansteller.com/ 
Rehearsal Magazine
https://www.instagram.com/rehearsal_magazine/?hl=en 
Opera Australia at a crossroads
https://musicaustralia.org.au/2020/09/opera-australia-at-a-crossroads/
As COVID wreaks havoc in the performing arts, do we still need a national opera company?
https://theconversation.com/as-covid-wreaks-havoc-in-the-performing-arts-do-we-still-need-a-national-opera-company-145461
Discrimination in Casting Black Singers at the Metropolitan Opera
https://www.middleclassartist.com/post/discrimination-in-casting-black-singers-at-the-metropolitan-opera
Opera in a post-Weinstein World 
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/12/05/opera-post-weinstein-world/