Ian Cousins was the 1973 and 1974 Judges Finalist of the Australian national television program, CHANNEL 9 SHOWCASE. In 1975 he represented Australia in the Pan Pacific Finals of the METROPOLITAN OPERA AUDITIONS and won the Victorian State Final of the ABC’s INSTRUMENTAL & VOCAL COMPETITION in 1969.
Since 1975 Ian Cousins has performed over sixty [...]
Michael Lampard is a graduate of the TASMANIAN CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC where he studied classical voice with Suzanne Ortuso.
In 2007, at only twenty-one years of age, he was selected as a quarter-finalist in Placido Domingo’s OPERALIA competition in Paris. During the same year, he was also a semi-finalist in the AUSTRALIAN SINGING COMPETITION-THE MATHY AWARDS [...]
Born in Melbourne in 1962, Lucas de Jong made his professional debut at the age of twelve, for the Australian Opera, as the Shepherd Boy in Tosca. He is a graduate of the VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS and was a member, beginning in 1990, of the VICTORIA STATE OPERA’s Young Artist Program.
In 1990 and [...]
Barry Anderson is Australian but has lived, throughout his highly successful performing career in Italy.
His first engagements in various regional theatres in Italy were in such rôles as Enrico in LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, David in AMICO FRITZ, Germont in LA TRAVIATA, Renato in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, Tonio in I PAGLIACCI, Conte di Luna in [...]