Siobhan Stagg (born 16 September 1987) is an Australian

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Biography

Stagg was born in

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to school teacher parents, and has two brothers. She completed her tertiary education at the

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2009 and

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in Cardiff. She was the winner of the 2012 First Prize and Audience Choice awards at The Mietta Song Competition. She has appeared with the

Salzburg Festival The Salzburg Festival () is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer, for five weeks starting in late July, in Salzburg, Austria, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart's operas are a focus of ...

, the

Berliner Staatsoper The Staatsoper Unter den Linden ( State Opera under the Lime Trees), also known as the Berlin State Opera (), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Pr ...

, the

Bavarian State Opera The Bavarian State Opera () is a German opera company based in Munich. Its main venue is the Nationaltheater München, and its orchestra the Bavarian State Orchestra. History The parent ensemble of the company was founded in 1653, under El ...

, the

Deutsche Oper Berlin The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house (after Munich's) and also home to the Berlin State Ballet. Since 2004, the ...

, the

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, the

Hamburg State Opera The Hamburg State Opera (in German: ) is a German opera company based in Hamburg. Its theatre is near the square of Gänsemarkt. Since 2015, the current ''Intendant'' of the company is Georges Delnon, and the current ''Generalmusikdirektor'' ...

, the Royal Opera Covent Garden,

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Opernhaus Zürich The Zurich Opera House () is an opera house in the Swiss city of Zurich. Located at the Sechseläutenplatz, it has been the home of the Zurich Opera since 1891, and also houses the Bernhard-Theater Zürich. It is also home to Ballett Zürich. I ...

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, the

Lyric Opera of Chicago Lyric Opera of Chicago is an American opera company based in Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded in Chicago in 1954, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox (Chicago opera), Carol Fox, Nicola Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, w ...

and

Victorian Opera Victorian Opera is an opera company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The company was founded in 2005 by the Victorian Government as a replacement for the Victoria State Opera. It commenced operations in January 2006 with Richard Gill a ...

. In 2020, she joined the board of directors with the

Melba Opera Trust The Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music was a school of music located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. During its early days it was closely associated with opera diva Dame Nellie Melba, after whom it was later named. In 1994 it became affi ...

. Stagg currently lives in Berlin with her partner Nelson.

Discography

* ''Arrangements for Soprano and Brass Quintet'' (Viva Italia - Su le sponde del Tebro) (S. Stagg, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Brass Quintet) (2020) –

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, 845221054025. * ''MOČNIK, D Johannes-Passion'' (Stagg, Teuscher, Glaser, Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, Munich Radio Orchestra, Repušić) (2023) -

, 4035719003437 * ''Hahn, Debussy, Noga Quartet, Siobhan Stagg'' – Aquarelles (2019) -

Avi Records AVI Records was an independent record label established in 1968, as a unit of ''American Variety International''. It released music from numerous genres, and was sufficiently successful with its disco recordings that it began doing its own distri ...

,8553106 * ''Hymn à l'Amour'', Siobhan Stagg / Amir Farid -

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Videography

* ''Fidelio'', Opéra Comique -

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Opéra Comique ''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular ''opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Théâtre de la foire, Fair Theatres of St Germain and S ...

(2021) * ''Handel's Messiah TV Special'' - ABC Classics Program, Blue Dog Productions (2019) * ''MOZART, W.A. Zauberflöte'' (Die)

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Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a theatre in Covent Garden, central London. The building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. The ROH is the main home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orch ...

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References

External links

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"Siobhan Stagg’s unique musical response to the pandemic"
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