Matt is one of Australia’s leading lighting designers with 30 years’ experience in the industry designing more than 350 productions for Theatre, Opera, Dance and Musical Theatre. Based in Melbourne he has worked both nationally and internationally with a diverse list of companies and producers. Designs for Opera Australia include Candide, Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Rigoletto, La Sonnambula, Aida (Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour), La … Continued
Nick is a graduate of the Queensland Academy of Excellence in Musical Theatre. Recently he played the role of Danny in the world premiere of The Drover’s Wife-The Opera at QPAC. During his studies, Nick’s performance credits include Emmett Forrest in Legally Blonde (dir. Alister Smith), Bobby Strong in Urinetown (dir. Penny Farrow), Captain MacHeath in The Threepenny Opera (dir. Penny … Continued
Dominic Longhurst is Principal Trumpet of Opera Australia. Born and raised in Sydney, he has built a distinguished career as a performer, conductor and educator, bringing to the company broad experience developed across Australia and the United Kingdom. Dominic graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he … Continued
Natalie Wong was appointed Principal Harp of the Opera Australia Orchestra in 2025, having appeared regularly as a guest since 2012. She has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles in Australia and abroad, including the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Brandenburger Symphoniker, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera Lab Berlin, and served as Acting … Continued
Nathaniel Parker most recently completed a role in the second series of PBS’s Maigret and performing An Evening of TS Eliot as well as featuring in the 2025 film Desperate Journey and the TV mini-series 12 Dates ‘Til Christmas. Nathaniel also recently played opposite Siân Phillips in Summer 1954, a pair of Terence Rattigan one-act … Continued
Morgan Moroney is an award-winning lighting and video designer for theatre, opera, dance and installation. Growing up on Kaurna land, he currently lives and works primarily on Gadigal land. Morgan brings a distinct multidisciplinary approach to his creative practice, with a particular fascination for integrated-media live performance. Morgan’s work includes: Drive Your Plow, August: Osage … Continued
Born into an artistic family, with a mother who is a visual artist and a father who is a singer-songwriter, Sidra was always surrounded by the arts. Her first experiences of performance came in childhood, when her mother would take her to see pantomimes at the local church. Watching productions such as Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, and … Continued
For Darwin-born soprano Lana Kains, music has always been a part of her life. One of her formative memories is singing along to a performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana in which both her parents were participating. By the age of four Lana was singing in choir and at ten she had started private lessons in … Continued
Isobel’s first experience with opera was as a young girl listening to Gilbert and Sullivan CDs on repeat during family road trips, and the performing bug bit early. Growing up learning the violin, clarinet and piano, she found herself transfixed by the world of classical music and couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Accepted into the … Continued
Christopher Whalley is an emerging Australian classical singer from Tamworth, New South Wales, currently based in Sydney. He completed a Bachelor of Music Performance (Classical Voice) in 2023 and a Master of Music Studies (Opera Performance) in 2025 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, studying throughout with Dr Simon Lobelson. Chris’ path into opera has … Continued