This passion inspired a simple concept to bring opera to a broader audience and change the way the general public think about opera.

“I want to create a situation for people who may not like opera, young kids, to see and enjoy,” Mr Blick said this week.

“People think of operas as three hours long in a language they don’t understand, they think they are really serious and heavy and basically just for snobs,” he said of the Australian image of one of the oldest forms of performing art.

Now living and working in The Netherlands, Mr Blick uses his three month annual holiday in Australia to bring a taste of Europe’s chamber operas to an Aussie audience.

It’s been an epic five years but even a $15,000 loss in the first year didn’t deter him.

These days he does make a couple of bucks but usually spends that on set production.

It is clear it is not about the money for Blick but about sharing the love of music and beautiful music it is.

It is also about exposing Australian audiences to chamber opera.

Unlike the elaborate performances of their affluent cousins, a chamber opera is far less grand.

Usually only three performers walk the stage, the set is simple and the operas can be performed in far more intimate settings.

Blick has even performed one of his shows to a private home.

Singleton’s Sacred Spaces is the selected venue for opening night of a program of works by French composer Jacques Offenbach.

The first half of the program includes excerpts from Offenbach’s La Perichole, L vie Parisienne, Orphee aux enfers and La belle Helene.

The second half of the program is devoted to the Australian premiere of Offenbach’s short chamber opera Pepito. Pepiot takes a comic look at love during times of war and is based on Offenbach’s original play set in Spain at the time of the inquisition. Blick has given the play a more familiar slant by setting it in a small Australian town at the end of World War II.

Never dared to go and see an opera before. Maybe now’s the time.

The show is on Friday, July 23, at 7.30pm at Sacred Spaces with tickets on sale now at Singleton Organics.