Opera star admits sex

A SYDNEY opera singer has admitted sex offences related to an underage teenage girl in the 1990s.

In Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court yesterday, David Edward Lewis, 59, pleaded guilty to three charges of aggravated indecent assault and two charges of sexual intercourse with a person aged between 14 and 16.

Lewis was committed for sentence in the District Court.

The tenor played the emperor in Opera Australia’s 2016 Sydney Harbour production of Turandot and earlier this year performed as Pedro in Two Weddings, One Bride.