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Keeping track of those who have performed with our Society!
Please contact us at gasvic@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
Rebecca Nash (June 2005) |
Rebecca made her debut with Opera Australia singing Countess Almaviva, and her debut with Scottish Opera as Cio-Cio San. She made her debut with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in both Jenufa under Bernard Haitink and Daphne under Stefan Soltez and her debut with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Beethoven's Egmont under Frans Bruggen. She has forthcoming engagements with the SCO singing a programme of Mozart Arias. Her debut at the BBC Proms was in "Elijah" under Kurt Masur and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Norkopping Symphony Orchestra, Sweden under Daniel Harding. She also sang Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Japan and Hong Kong under Frans Bruggen and returned to the Royal Opera for Elektra under Semyon Bychkov and to the BBC Proms for Elektra under Donald Runnicles. Her third season at the Proms was in Dvorak's Mass in D under Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She has also toured Spain and the Netherlands with Frans Bruggen in Beethoven's Egmont. Other concert engagements have included Mozart's Coronation Mass with the RTV Orchestra in Madrid and Mozart's C Minor Mass with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also performed Verdi's Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall. In recital she has appeared with Graham Johnson in Germany and in London and Edinburgh with Iain Burnside. Forthcoming engagements include Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the West Australian SO, the Four Last Songs and a programme of operatic arias, both with Richard Armstrong and the Scottish Opera Orchestra, and a recital tour of the Baltic and Scandinavia. Email sent from Rebecca's husband,
Damian Richardson. |
| David Corcoran (January 2005) | David is in Opera Australia's 2005 production of Cosi Fan Tutti. Later in the year David will be featured in Verdi's requiem and Puccini's La Boheme, both with Opera Australia. All in all David is doing very well for himself. |
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David Corcoran |
David (Luiz in The
Gondoliers 2003) is now living in Sydney studying Opera at the Conservatorium
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| Stephen Hannah (Jan 2004) |
Our Arac in Princess Ida 1995 has since turned his attention to Film and Television work and has appeared in many short films. Currently Stephen is being trained by TV Director and Playwright Richard Sarell. |
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Philip Wheeldon |
Phil has just rewritten the Mikado for a cast of 6 for Promac Productions, which is on tour at this moment. Stage Manager for this production is our old friend Martyn Bishop (from Phoenix Theatre, Burwood and The Alexander Theatre, Clayton). |
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Philip Wheeldon |
Well known comic who performed with the Society in the 1970s and 1980s, Philip has just rewritten HMS Pinafore for a cast of 5 for Promac Productions' version which is touring Australia. |
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Tiffany Speight |
Most recently seen as Phyllis in Opera Australia's Iolanthe. |
| Daniel Gare (Oct 2001) |
Sang the Bass solo in the Puccini Messa di Gloria at St. Paul's Cathedral, with the Stonnington Symphony Orchestra and the combined Melbourne and Monash Choral societies. Has done a couple of tours with Co-opera, an Adelaide based company which tours interstate regularly. |
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Adam Bianco |
Appearing in Simon Gallagher's The Merry Widow |
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John Heuzenroeder |
Enjoying great success, both live and in recording. Also has been cast as Tobias in Opera Australia's Sweeney Todd. |
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John Wegner
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John sang Wotan in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Adelaide Festival Theatre in November 1998 with the State Opera of South Australia. He is currently based in Germany, and sang Scarpia in Tosca with Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House in February 1998. |
| Mary Lawrey Michelle Black Julian Bailey Kevin Kelly |
These 4 were seen with Anthony Warlow and Suzanne Johnston when International Management Group presented a concert version of My Fair Lady in the grounds of the Mansion at Werribee Park on February 27 and 28, 1998. |
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Rebecca Nash |
Winner of the Herald-Sun Aria. |
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