But the best bit was that we got to walk through the bowels of the Opera House. And there’s some serious equipment down there.

I’ve been in ad-hoc choirs before, even as a kid, but it’s something else to listen to these kids from the Gondwana Children’s Choir. There’s a brilliant energy about them, probably because their enthusiasm is unbridled.

I’ve been to the Opera House quite often in the last couple of years since they’ve started programming more contemporary acts. But I’ve never stood on the concert hall stage until last week! Man, it was some view…