Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, New South Wales, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House accompanied...
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The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is...
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Opera was introduced to Australia by European settlers in the 19th century. The first opera performances were staged in the early 1800s, often by touring...
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frequently attractive, seductive, glamorous and wealthy. Soap operas from the United Kingdom and Australia tend to focus on more everyday characters and situations...
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La traviata with Welsh National Opera, Teatro di San Carlo, Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Queensland and Opera Australia. His roles also includes The Italian...
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implementation" (PDF). Australia Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 March 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2010. "Opera Australia". Australia Council. Archived...
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The Opera Australia Orchestra (based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a full-time salaried orchestra, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Opera Australia...
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Anthony Warlow (category 20th-century Australian male opera singers)
made his debut with the Australian Opera in 1980. Warlow has performed on Broadway, the West End, Carnegie Hall and across Australia with all of the symphony...
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The Opera Awards is an singing competition for professional Australian opera singers. It was established in 1986 with the purpose of assisting and developing...
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My Fair Lady (section 2008 Australian tour)
Opera Australia, accessed 1 July 2019 "My Fair Lady: Regent Theatre, Melbourne", Opera Australia, accessed 1 July 2019 "My Fair Lady: Sydney Opera House"...
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Warwick Fyfe (category 20th-century Australian male opera singers)
and senior principal member of the Opera Australia ensemble for many years, performing regularly at the Sydney Opera House, and the Melbourne Arts Centre...
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to bring high culture – opera and ballet – to Australia, providing a theatre "of Australians by Australians for Australians". It formed by public subscription...
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Ali McGregor (category Use Australian English from October 2016)
McGregor is an Australian soprano opera singer, actress and cabaret performer. She has performed in operas in the United Kingdom, in Australia and in New...
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Jim Sharman (category Australian film directors)
Britten's Death in Venice for Opera Australia. In 2009, he directed a new production of Mozart's Così fan tutte for Opera Australia, a collaboration with the...
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Vanessa Scammell (category Australian classical pianists)
Vanessa Scammell is an Australian pianist and conductor in the field of ballet, musical theatre, concert, and opera. After growing up in Gippsland, Victoria...
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production by Opera Australia with Cheryl Barker in the title role and Richard Hickox conducting won the Helpmann Award for Best Opera. "Song to the Moon"...
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The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, and a libretto by Lloyd Webber...
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Teddy Tahu Rhodes (category 21st-century New Zealand male opera singers)
Zealand-born operatic baritone based in Australia. He has performed at opera houses in New Zealand, Australia, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia...
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Greta Bradman (category 21st-century Australian women opera singers)
performance in a fully staged opera as Mimì in Gale Edwards' production of La bohème for Opera Australia in the Sydney Opera House. Bradman – with vocalist...
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The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed...
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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...
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Nicole Car (category 21st-century Australian women opera singers)
Australian operatic soprano. She has performed leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera,...
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Kate Miller-Heidke (category 21st-century Australian women opera singers)
the role of Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance with Opera Australia in late 2005. Instead she turned from classical to pop music when "Space...
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West Australian Opera (WAO) is the principal opera company of Western Australia,[citation needed] and is a resident company at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth...
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Neil Armfield (category Australian opera directors)
Neil Geoffrey Armfield AO (born 22 April 1955) is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera. Born in Sydney, Armfield is the third and youngest...
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Ainsley Melham (category Australian male stage actors)
Cinderella". Aussie Theatre. Retrieved 7 July 2021. Viagas, Robert. "Opera Australia's RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA Moved to 2022", Broadway World...
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Stacey Alleaume (category 21st-century Australian women opera singers)
(born 1985 or 1986 (age 38–39)) is an Australian soprano. She is the principal soprano for Opera Australia of Australian and Mauritian descent. Alleaume's...
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Claude Scott-Mitchell (category Use Australian English from March 2024)
career as a child actress on stage, appearing in Elke Neidhardt's 2008 Opera Australia production of Don Giovanni and Sergei Tcherkasski's production of Flight...
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Henry Choo (category 20th-century Australian male opera singers)
Henry Choo is an Australian operatic lyric tenor who has performed in all three of Donizetti's "Tudor Operas" (Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux)...
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Lisa McCune (category Actresses from Perth, Western Australia)
in Opera Australia's production of the Bartlett Sher 2008 New York revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific at the Sydney Opera House...
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