Eleanor Jean Greenwood is an Australian Soprano best known as an opera singer. She is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music Opera Studio in London, England. [1] She was a member of the Richard Divall Emerging Artist Program, Melbourne Opera. [2] In 2023, she won the Opera Awards prize. [3]
Her debut with Wexford Festival Opera was as Pachole in Maria by Roman Statkowski. [4] She has performed roles including Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel , Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia , Count Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus , [5] La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi , Endimione in La Calisto , The Wife in Paradise Moscow (Cheryomushki), L'Enfant in L'Enfant et les sortileges and Zerlina in Don Giovanni . She has performed roles in The Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček. She is the sister of Australian musicologist Andrew Greenwood. [6]
Jason Barry-Smith is an Australian operatic baritone, vocal coach, composer, and arranger. He works with organisations such as Opera Queensland, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Seven Network, and the Queensland Youth Choir.
Marina Prior is an Australian soprano and actress with a career mainly in musical theatre. From 1990 to 1993, she starred as the original Christine Daaé in the Australian premiere of The Phantom of the Opera, opposite Anthony Warlow and later Rob Guest.
Theatre of Australia refers to the history of the live performing arts in Australia: performed, written or produced by Australians.
Danielle de Niese is an Australian-American lyric soprano. After success as a young child in singing competitions in Australia, she moved to the United States where she developed her operatic career. From 2005 she came to widespread public attention with her performances as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, England.
The Victoria State Opera (VSO), based in Melbourne, Australia, was founded in Melbourne in 1962. The company, founded by Leonard Spira, was a move into grand opera by the then amateur Gilbert and Sullivan-oriented Victorian Light Opera Co. The name changed to the Victorian Opera Company in 1964 in a move to enable the company to perform a broader repertoire.
Jacqueline Lisa Dark was an Australian operatic mezzo-soprano who appeared mainly with Australian companies, for a while as a member of Opera Australia. She was known for her voice in leading roles, including world premieres, but also for her stage presence and "a unique sense of comic timing".
Melbourne Opera was founded in 2002 as a charitable not-for-profit company dedicated to producing opera and associated art forms in Melbourne, Australia. With philanthropic assistance it has also toured to outer-suburban and regional Victorian theatres, as well as to Canberra and Hobart interstate. Despite receiving no government funding since its foundation, the company mounts between three and five main stage productions each year. Its principal rehearsal and performance home is the Athenaeum Theatre.
Isabel Leonard is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer based in New York City. She is of Argentine ancestry on her mother's side.
Antoinette Halloran is an Australian operatic soprano.
Joan Carden AO OBE is an Australian operatic soprano. She has been described as "a worthy successor to Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland" and was sometimes known as "the other Joan" or "The People's Diva". She was a Principal Soprano with Opera Australia for 32 years, and was particularly associated with the title roles of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca and Madama Butterfly. However, she sang over 50 other roles, from the 18th century, including virtually all the Mozart heroines, through to works by contemporary composers.
Fiona Kimm is a British mezzo-soprano known for a wide-ranging operatic and concert repertoire.
Liam Bonner is a retired professional opera singer (baritone) from Pittsburgh, PA.
Richard Sydney Divall was an Australian conductor and musicologist.
Sir Jonathan MillsFRSE is an Australian composer and festival director. He was born and raised in Sydney and has dual Australian and UK citizenship. His work includes two operas, an oratorio, a ballet, song cycles, concertos, and chamber music. He has directed a number of arts festivals in Australia, and from 2006 to 2014 he was director of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Eilene Hannan AM was an Australian operatic soprano with an international reputation. She was particularly associated with opera sung in English, although she also sang in other languages. She was as well known as an actress as she was a singer. Her repertoire included Mozart's Pamina, Susanna, Cherubino, Dorabella and Zerlina; Mimì in Puccini's La bohème; Natasha Rostova in Prokofiev's War and Peace; Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin; Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio; Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande; Blanche in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites; the title roles in Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, Jenůfa and The Cunning Little Vixen; the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier; Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlos; Pat Nixon in Adams' Nixon in China; Wagner's Sieglinde and Venus; Salome in Massenet's Hérodiade; and Monteverdi's Poppea.
Wallis Giunta is a Canadian mezzo-soprano opera singer performing at leading theatres and opera companies around the world.
Alexandra Flood is an Australian operatic soprano.
Katie Emily Bray is an English coloratura mezzo-soprano and is best known as the winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World in 2019. She is particularly noted for her baroque repertoire.
Judita Nagyová is a Slovak mezzo-soprano. She is a versatile member of the Oper Frankfurt, who has appeared at European opera houses and festivals. She took part in the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter.
Margaret Haggart OAM is an Australian operatic soprano and community arts founder based in Melbourne, Australia. Her career spans over 90 operatic, operetta and cabaret roles, performed in the United Kingdom, Italy, France, the United States of America, South America, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. She is a board member of Melbourne Opera, Green Room Awards and a committee member for the now finished Mietta Song Competition.