This ballot picks up the broken thread of ambition first encountered in the studio Nabucco, named after the Opera that was loosely framed by the historical siege of Jerusalem, a narrative continued in the studio K for Ketamine born of the madness of the film Fitzcarraldo (1982), its director Werner Herzog, the actor Klaus Kinski and the protagonist Brian Fitzgerald’s love of opera, and then recently and finally in the mischievous affirmation of The Last Studio that remonstrated with the discordant promise of an Opera House indigenous to Australia.