Born in Cessnock, Brian Castles-Onion is Australia’s most exciting and best-known opera conductor. His career continues to expand internationally and has worked at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the Julliard School of Music, the Rossini Festival in Italy. He held the position of Artistic Director of Canterbury Opera in New Zealand and currently continues his long … Continued
Australian conductor Benjamin Northey is the Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and the Principal Conductor in Residence of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has previously held the posts of Associate Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (2010-2019), Resident Guest Conductor of the Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra (2002-2006) and Principal Guest Conductor of … Continued
As Music Director of Pittsburgh Opera, Antony Walker enjoys the distinction of serving as one of the youngest music directors of a regional company in the United States. A prodigiously gifted musician, he made his professional conducting debut in 1992 in Sydney, and since that time, has conducted well over 100 operas, as well as … Continued
Anthony Legge studied at the Guildhall, Oxford University and the London Opera Centre, and also studied accompanying privately with Geoffrey Parsons and Paul Hamburger. His numerous recitals include those with, amongst others, Dame Janet Baker, Sir Thomas Allen, Gwynne Howell and Håkan Hagegård. He has worked regularly with the principal British opera companies, Glyndebourne Festival … Continued
Background: Conducted over sixty productions of operas, operettas, musicals, symphonic and choral works. OA repertoire: Così fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Faust, La traviata, My Fair Lady, The Merry Widow, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, Trial by Jury, A Little Night Music Other Companies: Covent Garden Festival, London; State … Continued
Andrea Molino is known as both a composer and conductor. He was born in Turin and studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Zurich. From 1996 to 2007 he was Musical Director of the Pocket Opera Company in Nuremberg. His own projects the smiling carcass (1999), on advertising and Those Who … Continued
Peter Casey is one of Australia’s most versatile musical directors, having established a career spanning the genres of musical theatre, arena presentations, symphonic concerts, orchestration, television and recording. During the past years, Peter has been musical director for several major music theatre productions, including the 1991 Gordon Frost Organisation/Adelaide Festival Centre production of The King … Continued
Andrea Licata has conducted many opera and symphonic orchestras in Italy and abroad, including the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Festival of Two Worlds Orchestra of Spoleto and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In Spoleto, he conducted the world premiere of … Continued
Original sound designs include: Fangirls; Bran Nue Dae; Jekyll and Hyde; Muriel’s Wedding; Barnum; Mamma Mia! (2018); My Fair Lady; Dream Lover; Singin’ In The Rain; The Rabbits; Fiddler On The Roof; Anything Goes; Priscilla Queen of the Desert (world-wide); The King And I (2014 – Australia; 2007 – China / Asia); Hot Shoe Shuffle; … Continued
Greg Eldridge is an Australian-born stage director now based in the United Kingdom. Following training at the Opera Studio Melbourne, he completed further study at the European Academy of Florence in Italy and relocated to England. He has worked on over 50 productions in some of the world’s leading theatres, including The Royal Opera Covent … Continued