Regular customers at Harcourt’s Goldfields Track Cafe often get more than a caffeine fix when they drop in for a coffee.
Behind the coffee machine is James Park, singing barista and first tenor with Melbourne Opera.
The local barista loves nothing better than singing opera and he’s on song this week as he shoulders the role of a soldier in Bellini’s Norma that opened on Tuesday at Melbourne’s Athenaeum Theatre and runs through to Tuesday September 24.
James says he remembers the day he fell in love with opera. Full story in today’s Castlemaine Mail (Friday, September 20, 2019)