Paull-Anthony Keightley (2017 Deutsche Oper Berlin Award) What does winning this Award mean to you? Being named the winner of The Opera Foundation for young Australians' Deutsche Oper Berlin Award is absolutely life changing. Not only will I have the opportunity to observe some of the greatest artists of our generation, I will be singing along-side [...]
Fiona Jopson (2017 Vienna State Opera Award) What does winning this Award mean to you? A few years ago I was assessing my life and career goals for the next 5 to 10 years. One of these goals was to experience the international stage and the Vienna State Opera was one of the houses on [...]
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This wonderful event was held on Sunday 29th October 2017 at 4pm at the Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Press Release – Winner - 2017 Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship Finals Fleuranna Brockway mezzo-soprano – WA Christopher Curcuruto bass-baritone – NSW Bronwyn Douglass mezzo-soprano – NSW Michael Petruccelli tenor – VIC [...]
Dalwood-Wylie American Institute of Musical Studies Award (AIMS) 2016 Winner – Sylvie Humphries – Soprano What did winning this award mean to you? Winning the 2016 American Institute of Musical Studies award from the The Opera Foundation for young Australians was an honour. In 2014 I was a finalist of The Foundation’s Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship [...]
Set Designer Pia Leong, Assistant Designer Oliver Burkhardt and Aleisa Jelbart. Aleisa Jelbart - 2016 Rockend Berlin New Music opera Award Winner In late October 2016, I set off on my three month trip to Berlin, supported by the Rockend Berlin New Music Opera Award. During my stay I spent two months at the Komische [...]
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Marcellina (with Carlo Lepore as Basilio and Matteo Falcier as Don Basilio) in Le Nozze di Figaro while on tour with the Staatsoper in Japan, Maestro Riccardo Muti conducting. Photos by Michael Pöhn. Vienna State Opera Award 2015 Winner - Margaret Plummer - Mezzo Soprano How would you describe your experience in Vienna so [...]
Photo: Judith Gawol On Thursday 7th July 2016 Valda Wilson gave a beautiful performance at our supporters Soiree at Fairwater. Valda was the Foundation’s winner of the 2008 Rockend National Opera Studio London Scholarship & Robert & Betty Salzer Award. She will be performing the lead of Theodora in Pinchgut Opera’s production of Handel’s Theodora in [...]
Sam Roberts-Smith – baritone – WA Why did you audition for the Deutsche Oper Berlin Award? The Deutsche Oper Berlin is one of the greatest opera companies in the world, able to secure the most highly demanded international singers and present productions of the highest possible standard. Since graduating from the Western Australian Academy of [...]
