Who: Shridar Mani, 38, co-artistic director of home-grown arts company The Opera People. The group has been staging contemporary takes on the art form sometimes seen as stuffy and inaccessible.

The company’s grand finale for its 2025 season is the Singapore premiere of German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride, directed by Tan Shou Chen. Featuring Felicia Teo Kaixin as Iphigenie, Edward Kim as Oreste and Jonathan Charles Tay as Pylade, the show is on at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre @ Wild Rice on Oct 10 and 12.