Michaela holds a Bachelor of Music with Honours in vocal performance from the Royal College of Music, London. Recent performances include Sweeney Todd with Victorian Opera, Amadeus with Red Line Productions, and Enda Markey’s Do You Hear The People Sing. Michaela performed in Opera Australia’s The Phantom of the Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2022, following … Continued
Bec Moret made her directorial debut in 2022 with Le Nozze di Figaro followed in 2023 with Britten’s The Turn of the Screw for Sydney company The Cooperative. In 2024, she joined women-focused opera company Gente Gente to direct Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites, to be followed in 2026 with Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea … Continued
Natalie holds the position of Tutti Violin in the Opera Australia Orchestra, having joined the orchestra in 2025. Natalie began learning the violin at the age of 4, before advancing her studies under the tutelage of Dr Evgeny Sorkin as part of the Sydney Conservatorium’s Open Academy Rising Stars program. In 2019, she was the … Continued
Katie Zagórski is the newly appointed Principal Flute of the Opera Australia Orchestra, known for her expressive sound, spontaneity, and versatility as both a soloist and orchestral musician. A graduate of the Australian National University with First Class Honours and a former scholar at the Australian National Academy of Music, she has been a finalist … Continued
From Gladstone, Central Queensland, 22-year-old baritone Jake Lyle made his debut with Opera Australia in the title role in The Phantom of the Opera, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2026. Jake graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in Classical Voice from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University under the tuition of Dr Margaret Schindler. During his studies at … Continued
Maria Laura Iacobellis graduated in Opera Singing at 18 and later earned a second-level degree in Musical Disciplines with top marks, honours and commendation at the Conservatorio “E.R. Duni” in Matera, also graduating in Composition with honours. A 2018 alumna of the Accademia Rossiniana, she won major competitions including “Magda Olivero”, AsLiCo and CLIP. Since … Continued
Artist and filmmaker Andrew Thomas Huang explores themes of queer futurism, Asian mythology, folklore, animism, ancestry and body memory. A Grammy-nominated music video director, Huang’s collaborators include Bjork, FKA Twigs, Kelela, Eartheater, Perfume Genius and Thom Yorke among others. His films have been commissioned by and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Sydney … Continued
Ann trained at Boston Conservatory of Music, Harvard Summer Dance Center, and Ohio State University. As Director, Productions include Otherland (The Almeida); Rusalka (and Choreographer, Royal Opera House); The Human Body (Co-Director The Donmar Warehouse); As You Like It (Dallas Theatre Centre) As Choreographer/Movement Director, Productions include The Monkey King (San Francisco Opera); Don Giovanni (Aix-en-Provence Festival); Life After (The Goodman Theatre, the Mirvish Theatre Toronto); We Live … Continued
Lillian is a ten-year-old performer based in Melbourne who has been singing and dancing at the Michelle Slater Performing Arts Studio since the age of two. While she enjoys performing across all genres, her greatest passions are singing and ballet. In 2024, Lillian was honoured to win the Ballet Teachers’ Workshop and was later awarded … Continued
Alyssa Fooks is a ten-year-old performer based in Melbourne. She trains at the Michelle Slater Performing Arts Studio, where she studies Musical Theatre, Drama, Tap, Jazz, Classical, Acrobatics, Contemporary and Hip Hop. Alyssa receives vocal coaching from Matt Hetherington and recently performed as Erminda in The Western Ballet Project’s 2025 production of Eva. She was … Continued