Willa Valaris is a 10-year-old Sydney-based performer thrilled to be making her professional musical theatre debut in Anastasia. She trains at Elite Performance Studios in jazz, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop and musical theatre and studies Physical Culture at The Peninsula Physie Club. She has received vocal training from Prudence Holloway. Willa has performed in live … Continued
Willow Wilson comes from a long line of performers, so it was no surprise that her passion was evident from a young age. She began her training at age 2 in singing and various styles of dance with musical theatre being her favourite. In 2025 Willow made her professional theatre debut as Molly in Annie … Continued
Most recently David conducted the Aussie Pops Orchestra for They Sang At Carnegie Hall with Bernadette Robinson at the Melbourne Recital Centre. As Music Supervisor: The new tour of The Book Of Mormon (Jones Theatrical), Little Shop Of Horrors (QPAC/Woodward Productions), and Prospero Arts’ Jersey Boys and Dusty. As Musical Director: Wicked (GFO/Crossroads) for fifteen … Continued
Multi-award-winning Australian tenor Asher Reichman is admired for his Italianate vocal colour, musical sensitivity and stylistic versatility. Inspired by his father, a violinist and conductor, he began his musical training on the violin before later turning to voice. He works regularly across opera, operetta, concert and recital repertoire. Reichman has performed operatic roles with Opera … Continued
Born in St. Petersburg, Sergey Skorokhodov completed his studies from the Glinka Choir School and the State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. He has made appearances at leading international opera houses such as the Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra national de Paris, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Royal Swedish Opera, the Washington Opera and the Festspielhaus … Continued
Catherine Foster is one of today’s leading sopranos, internationally acclaimed for her Wagner interpretations. She is regarded as one of the most significant artists of the past decade at the Bayreuth Festival, where she has sung Brünnhilde and Isolde. She began her career as Queen of the Night with Welsh National Opera and English National … Continued
Born in Dresden, Michael Güttler began his international career by conducting Parsifal at Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, then he became a guest conductor at many of the world’s leading theatres and orchestras, including Opéra National de Paris, Teatro Real de Madrid, Washington National Opera, New National Theatre in Tokyo, Teatro alla Scala in Milan. … Continued
Jessica is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She was a 2024/2025 Wesfarmers Arts Young Artist with West Australian Opera (WAO) and sings Violetta in their 2026 season of La traviata. Jessica makes her début with Opera Australia later this year – details of which to … Continued
Ariel is a Sydney based West Australian violist who loves exploring exciting new musical vistas. In 2025, Ariel was the viola fellow of the Sydney Symphony Fellowship program. She trained at the Australian National Academy of Music from 2021-23, during which she performed with the Australian String Quartet, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony … Continued
Rena has recently completed her Bachelor of Music Performance (Honours) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under the tutelage of Julian Smiles and Georg Pedersen. She was winner of Balmain Sinfonia’s 2025 Concerto Competition as well as Sydney Concert Orchestra’s 2024 Concerto Competition, allowing her to perform as a soloist with both orchestras last year. … Continued