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9 unusual facts about Opera Australia


Agim Hushi

Based on such great success he was invited and contracted for the same opera, to sing for Opera Australia.

Andrea Molino

As a conductor, he opened the 2013 season of Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House with Verdi's A Masked Ball with the direction of La Fura dels Baus; the production was later presented in Melbourne.

Aubrey Murphy

Aubrey Murphy is an Irish violinist and, has been concertmaster of the Opera Australia orchestra which performs in the Sydney Opera House for the last ten years.

David McSkimming

McSkimming was a member of the State Opera Of South Australia from 1976–1989, after which he worked with the Victoria State Opera as Principal Repetiteur until joining Opera Australia for the year 1997.

Georg Tintner

In 1974, he rejoined the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera, by then known as the Australian Opera.

Helen Gifford

She won the Dorian Le Gallienne Award in 1965, a Senior Composer's Fellowship in 1973, and served as composer-in-residence with the Australian Opera beginning in 1974.

Meryl Tankard

Tankard also revived Echo Point and Two Feet, collaborated with the theatre director Pierre Bokor on Circo (1991), and created choreography for Opera Australia's Death in Venice (1989), and made Sloth as part of Seven Deadly Sins - a program by seven contemporary Australian choreographers filmed for television by the ABC in 1993.

Miguel Franz Pinto

Pinto also worked as an accompanist and vocal coach with the Opera Australia and the Canadian Opera Company and was a frequent juror for the Enrico Caruso International Vocal Competition at Carnegie Hall.

Sonia Prina

Prina's extensive list of performance credits also include appearances at the Barbican Centre, the Bavarian State Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, La Fenice, the Liceu, Opera Australia, the Paris Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the San Francisco Opera, the Teatro Comunale Alighieri, the Teatro di San Carlo, the Teatro Real, and the Vienna State Opera among others.


Gareth McLearnon

His professional orchestral experience also includes playing in concerts and BBC TV & Radio recordings with the Ulster Orchestra, The London Pops Orchestra, Opera Australia, he has played in West-End Shows and has toured with Nigel Kennedy.

Operatunity

ABC TV and Opera Australia combined to produce Operatunity Oz, which offered Australians the comparable “operatunity”.

Operatunity Oz

Operatunity Oz was a 2006 talent search, and accompanying four-part television documentary by Simon Target, in which Opera Australia conducted a nationwide search to find someone in Australia without professional opera experience, who could be coached to sing in a staged operaVerdi's Rigoletto in the event — on the stage of the Sydney Opera House in the company of professional performers, as part of Opera Australia's regular season.

Strawberry Hills, New South Wales

Strawberry Hills is also the home of a number of significant cultural organisations including Opera Australia, The Australia Council for the Arts, and numerous notable entertainment venues including the Belvoir Street Theatre and the Strawberry Hills Hotel, a renowned Traditional Australian jazz venue located on Elizabeth Street.


see also

Aubrey Murphy

The Love for Three Oranges (Prokoviev) and Rusalka (Dvorak) with Opera Australia (conducted by Richard Hickox on the Chandos label, and with The Australian Ballet under the baton of Nicolette Fraillon.

Hugh Sheridan

In his youth he sang with State Opera Australia, played football for St Ignatius and studied drama at Unley Youth Theatre.