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List Of Sun Aria Winners
The Sun Aria singing contest began in 1924 as a new segment of the annual contests conducted since 1891 by the South Street Society of Ballarat, Victoria. The prize, initially of 23 guineas, was for "an aria from Grand Opera, to be sung in English" presented by ''The Sun News-Pictorial'', a Melbourne newspaper. The South Street Society became The Royal South Street Society in 1962, the sponsor became the Herald-Sun and the contest became the Melbourne Sun Aria, perhaps to differentiate it from the Geelong, Bendigo, and Sydney Sun Arias, listed below. Other Sun Arias Sun Aria (Geelong) Comunn-na-Feinne'' is a Scots Gaelic association, founded in Geelong in 1856 The ''Sun-Pictorial'' sponsored an Aria Prize in conjunction with Geelong's festival in 1925 and subsequently. The last contest was in 1933. Sun Aria (Bendigo) The newspaper offered similar prizes for the Bendigo musical, literary, and elocutionary competitions held in May 1925 and every year thereafter to 1936. Results 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Street Society
The South Street Society was an organisation based in Ballarat, Victoria, which conducted a series of performing arts contests and concerts originally styled the "South Street Competitions", which developed into the "Grand National Eisteddfod", later the Royal South Street Eisteddfod, not to be confused with the Ballarat Welsh Eisteddfods. The contests began as a public speaking and debating competition held by Ballarat's South Street Young Men's General Debating Society within its own membership, then between similar societies in the region. It expanded in range and scope into musical and calisthenic performances, drawing entries from all parts of Australasia. Much of its success can be attributed to its organising secretary, W. D. Hill. and his successor, L. A. Blackman. Despite the contests' brief and peripheral association with the Ballarat location, "South Street" has remained part of its title for over 130 years. History South Street Competitions The South Street Young Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballarat
Ballarat ( ) () is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Ballarat had a population of 111,973, making it the third-largest urban inland city in Australia and the third-largest city in Victoria. Within months of Victoria separating from the colony of New South Wales in 1851, gold was discovered near Ballarat, sparking the Victorian gold rush. Ballarat subsequently became a thriving boomtown that for a time rivalled Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, in terms of wealth and cultural influence. In 1854, following a period of civil disobedience in Ballarat over gold licenses, local miners launched an armed uprising against government forces. Known as the Eureka Rebellion, it led to the introduction of white male suffrage in Australia, and as such is interpreted as the origin of Australian democracy. The rebellion's symbol, the Eureka Flag, has become a national symbol. Proclaimed a city on 9 September 1870, Ballarat's prosperity, unlik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun News-Pictorial
''The Sun News-Pictorial'' (known as ''The Sun'') was a morning daily tabloid newspaper published in Melbourne, Victoria, from 1922 until its merger in 1990 with '' The Herald'' to form the '' Herald-Sun''. ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' was part of The Herald and Weekly Times stable of Melbourne newspapers. For more than fifty years it was the newspaper with the largest circulation in Australia. In 1930, more than 650,000 copies were sold each day. Character Along with its extensive coverage of Australian rules football (for example, it was responsible for the competition that produced the original VFL/AFL team songs), ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' distinguished itself with its photography, columns, and cartoons. Its longest-running column was "A Place in the Sun", originally written by Keith Dunstan, founder of the Anti-Football League, and later Graeme "Jacko" Johnstone. The award-winning cartoonist Jeff Hook became the full-time cartoonist for ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herald-Sun
The ''Herald Sun'' is a Conservatism, conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the American Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald Sun'' primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and the South Coast (New South Wales), South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In 2017, the paper had a daily circulation of 350,000 from Monday to Friday. The ''Herald Sun'' newspaper is the product of a Mergers and acquisitions, merger in 1990 of two newspapers owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited: the morning tabloid ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Sun Aria
The Herald Sun Aria, formerly known as The Sun Aria (because it was sponsored by '' The Sun News-Pictorial'') is a vocal competition for emerging opera singers held in Victoria, Australia, each year. The competition offers nearly $60,000 in cash prizes. The competition forms the aria section of the Royal South Street Eisteddfod, Australia's oldest and largest eisteddfod. Three of the most famous winners of the Aria competition are Wagnerian soprano Marjorie Lawrence (1928) and Dames Malvina Major (1964) and Kiri Te Kanawa in 1965. Others include June Bronhill (1950), Jonathan Summers (1973), Judith Henley (1976), Suzanne Ward (1984), Linda Thompson (1990), Rachelle Durkin (2000), and Nicole Car (2007). The heats (generally two) of the competition are held annually in September at Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat, and the final is held at Hamer Hall in the Arts Centre Melbourne in early November. Finalists are accompanied by Orchestra Victoria, conducted by Maestro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiri Te Kanawa
Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa (; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a New Zealand opera singer. She had a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". On 1 December 1971 she was recognised internationally when she appeared as the Countess in Mozart's ''Le nozze di Figaro'' at the Royal Opera House in London. Te Kanawa received accolades in many countries, performing works composed in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and singing in several languages. She was particularly associated with the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Verdi, and Giacomo Puccini, Puccini and Richard Strauss, and was often cast as an aristocrat. Her extensive discography includes three albums which featured in the top forty in charts in Australia in the mid-1980s. Towards the end of her career, Te Kanawa appeared in opera only rarely, preferring to perform in concerts and recitals. She also devoted m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Summers
Jonathan Summers (born 2 October 1946) is an Australian operatic baritone who has mainly worked in the United Kingdom. He sang the role of Captain Balstrode in the 1980 recording of Benjamin Britten's ''Peter Grimes'' which won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording#1980s, Grammy award for Best Opera recording. Early life Summers was born in Melbourne, where he studied art at Prahran College, Prahran Technical College (1964–9) and trained as a vocalist with Bettine McCaughan (1964–74). From 1970 to 1974, he worked as a technical operator and recording engineer with the ABC Radio and Regional Content, Radio Division of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. In September 1973 he won the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards, ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition. He followed with winning the Melbourne Sun Aria, Sun Aria competition in the next month. The same year he won the television talent quest Showcase (Australian TV talent quest), BP Showcase. In 1974, he m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Car
Nicole Car (born 1985) is an Australian operatic soprano. She has performed leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper, Semperoper Dresden, Paris Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Dallas Opera, The Dallas Opera, and Opera Australia. Car is particularly associated with the roles of Tatyana in ''Eugene Onegin (opera), Eugene Onegin'', Mimì in ''La bohème'', Marguerite in ''Faust (opera), Faust'', Fiordiligi in ''Così fan tutte'', Donna Elvira in ''Don Giovanni'' and Micaëla in ''Carmen'', and has also given noted performances as Elisabeth de Valois in ''Don Carlos'', and the title roles in ''Luisa Miller'' and ''Thaïs (opera), Thaïs''. Early life and education Car attended Strathmore, Victoria, Strathmore Secondary School, where she performed in school musicals. In Year 12 she sang at the Victorian Schools' Spectacular, singing jazz songs from the 1930s and 40s. At age 17, Car saw her f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Longmuir (tenor)
John Longmuir is a Scottish-born Australian tenor. Known primarily for operatic roles, he is also in demand on the concert platform and has appeared as a judge on channel seven's music competition show 'All Together Now'. Noted for his "generous voice, bright ringing vocal quality and legato phrasing" His operatic studies took place at the Australian Opera Studio. In 2019 John received his first Helpmann Award nomination, for his role as the Captain, in Berg's Wozzeck, for Opera Australia. Career Longmuir's professional concert debut was in Gabriel Fauré's ''La naissance de Venus'' at the Konzerthaus Berlin, with the Berliner Cappella. The same year he made his professional operatic debut, in Tokyo, Japan, as Ismaele in Verdi's ''Nabucco''. The following year, he debuted for Opera Australia, at the Sydney Opera House as Almaviva in ''The Barber of Seville''. This began his association with Opera Australia, first as a young artist, then as a principal. Since joining the comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Abrahmsen
Lee Abrahmsen is an Australian Swedish operatic soprano based in Australia. Life and work Soprano Lee Abrahmsen is hailed by critics as 'Melbourne's Favourite Soprano' and has established herself as one of Australia's most sought-after artists in opera and on the concert platform. She started her opera career singing a range of roles in the lyric soprano repertoire for Opera Australia, Melbourne Opera and Victorian Opera including; Mozart's La Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Verdi's Violetta ( La Traviata), Puccini's Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly), Mimi (La Bohéme), Strauss' Adele (Die Fledermaus), Mozart's Konstanze ( Die Entfürhrung der Serail), and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni). In recent years, Abrahmsen has a developed the reputation as a leading Wagner, Puccini and Verdi singer, having sung all major roles in recent years. Her Wagner roles have included Elisabeth (Tannhäuser), Senta ( Der Fliegender Holländer), Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), Eva (Die Meistersinger), Freia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacey Alleaume
Stacey Alleaume (born ) is an Australian soprano. She is the principal soprano for Opera Australia of Australian and Mauritian descent. Biography Alleaume's family came from Port Louis in Mauritius where her grandfather had been mayor and her grand-uncle curator of the opera house. She then grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Narre Warren and studied voice at the University of Melbourne and the Music Academy of the West in Montecito. In 2016 she became a member of the Opera Australia Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Program after winning the Dame Joan Sutherland Scholarship; in the same year she performed in a large scale "silent opera" ('' The Eighth Wonder'' in a headphones-only presentation) on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. Alleaume's voice was used in the 2021 feature film ''Falling for Figaro'' for the character Millie Cantwell. In 2021 she stepped into the role of Violetta in '' La traviata'' for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour at short notice. This performance was hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Riebl
Max Riebl (26 June 1991 – 30 April 2022) was an Australian countertenor. Biography Riebl was born in Melbourne, the younger brother of Felix Riebl. He attended Melbourne Grammar School before moving to Austria for middle school at the (Music Gymnasium Vienna), singing in the Hofburg Chapel Choir and the Clemencic Consort. He studied baroque performance in Switzerland at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He lived in Switzerland, France, and Austria, working with Gerd Türk, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher and Andrea Marcon before returning to Australia. He was a prize winner and finalist at many international musical competitions such as the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Arias, the Chicago Classical Singer, the London Handel Competition, and the 2015 Australian Singing Competition. Career highlights included performances at the Vienna Concert House, Musikverein, and the Royal Albert Hall. He also performed with Pinchgut Opera and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Riebl sang and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
