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Andrew Stafford

Highway to the highfalutin': opera hits the outback

Some of Queensland's far-flung country towns are embracing the Festival of Outback Opera. (Andrew Stafford/AAP PHOTOS)

In an open-air theatre on the main drag of an outback town, more than 1300km from the nearest capital city, soprano Katie Stenzel is trilling to the heavens under the Milky Way.

Locusts the size of your hand - in large numbers after summer floods that cut the northwest Queensland shire of Winton off in January - helicopter around the venue, occasionally dive-bombing unwary spectators.

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