A graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium, baritone Jason Barry-Smith studied also at the Musikhochschule in Munich in 1990. He subsequently won the 1992 MathyScholarship (Australian singing competition) and the 2001 Italian Opera Award. His professional experience embraces opera, concertsand musical comedy. As a concert soloist, he has performed with the Melbourne and … Continued
Dale designed the Malthouse Victorian Opera production of The Riders and The Production Company’s La Cage aux Folles and Pirates of Penzance. Most recent work for Melbourne Theatre Company includes; The Speechmaker, The Crucible, Top Girls, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, , Life Without Me, God of Carnage, The Sapphires and August: Osage Country which … Continued
Winner of the 2019 Australian International Opera Award, Bass Baritone Jeremy Kleeman is a graduate of the prestigious Opera Studio at the Royal College of Music, London. His recent performances in Australia have been his debuts with both Opera Queensland and West Australian Opera in the title role of a new production of Le nozze … Continued
Born in St. Petersburg, Anna began her musical studies at the age of five and graduated as and also studied singing and direction. Later, she graduated with honors in singing from the Conservatory of Fermo – Italy. She has participated in several noteworthy Master Classes including those with Francesco Araiza, Grace Bumbry, Lela Cuberli and Bianca … Continued
Since his sensational début at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in a performance of La Traviata in 2006, Jonas Kaufmann has numbered among the top stars on the operatic horizon. The international press has singled him out as the “new king of tenors”. Insiders praise him as the most important German tenor since Fritz Wunderlich. Jonas … Continued
Renowned for his “pure, glowing tenor,” Australian tenor Michael Petruccelli has returned home after several busy seasons at Oper Frankfurt, establishing himself as a versatile artist across a repertoire spanning early music to contemporary opera. For Opera Australia, Michael has appeared as Stephen Goldring in The Eighth Wonder, Pedro in Two Weddings, One Bride, and … Continued
Originally from Townsville, Greta is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Greta’s professional credits include the 60th Anniversary Production of My Fair Lady directed by Julie Andrews, the arena tour of Broadway to Oz: Hugh Jackman Live in Concert, and the Australian tour of Anything Goes. Greta has toured Australia and Asia with Wicked, appeared in the 2009 national tour of My … Continued
Filipino-American tenor Arthur Espiritu is a winner of the distinguished 2009 George London Award. He received the Scala award at the Belvedere Competition in Vienna, the Second Place in the Irene Dalis Competition, Second Place in the Competition in Birmingham, Second Place in the Finals of the Metropolitan Audition, and earned both a Bachelor of … Continued
Deidre Rubenstein graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1967, and has appeared nationwide with most of Australia’s major theatre companies. Her long career includes roles in productions of Mother Courage, Three Sisters, Cloud 9, Top Girls, Wild Honey, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Winter's Tale, Absurd Person Singular, Broken Glass, … Continued
Born in Taranto, Lucio Gallo graduated at the ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ Conservatory of Turin with Elio Battaglia. He is a regular guest of the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls including the New York Metropolitan, San Francisco Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Wien, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Staatsoper, Philharmonic Orchestra and Deutsche Oper … Continued