Pacific Opera is an opera training company based in Sydney, Australia.
Founded in 2003 by Sylvie Renaud-Calmel and Christine Douglas OAM, the first artistic director, the company has an annual Young Artist Program for emerging opera singers aged 18 to 35, which integrates coaching, rehearsals and stage craft with numerous public and private performance opportunities. Annual opera productions offer role practice to the young artists and employment for young industry professionals including designers, orchestral musicians, repetiteurs, conductors and directors.
Simon Kenway was artistic director from 2015 to 2019,"Pacific Opera farewells artistic director Simon Kenway" by David Kary, Sydney Arts Guide, 18 December 2019 followed by co-directors Peter Coleman-Wright AO and Cheryl Barker AO."Our creative team", Pacific Opera Coleman-Wright introduced the staging of "pocket operas" in 2021, works reduced to about an hour and tailored to young singers."The Marriage of Figaro, pocket opera with WSO", Pacific Opera
Productions
2003: The Magic Flute, The Independent Theatre, North Sydney 2004: Hansel and Gretel, The Independent Theatre, North Sydney 2005: Così fan tutte, The Independent Theatre, North Sydney, and Riverside Theatres, Parramatta 2006: Pacific Opera in Concert 2006, The Independent Theatre, North Sydney 2007: The Barber of Seville; Pacific Opera in Concert 2007 The Independent Theatre, North Sydney, and Riverside Theatres, Parramatta 2008: Offenbach's Daphnis and Chloe (Australian premiere)"Michaela Lieske", Aust Global Entertainment and Gorgeous Galatea, The Independent Theatre, North Sydney 2009: La sonnambula, Glen Street Theatre, Belrose 2010: Hänsel und Gretel. Glen Street Theatre, Belrose 2011: The Magic Flute, Llewelynn Hall Canberra with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Glen Street Theatre, Belrose, and Riverside Theatres, Parramatta 2012: "Opera at the Forum", The Italian Cultural Forum, Leichhardt 2013: The Marriage of Figaro, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, and Young Town Hall, Young 2014: The Gondoliers Dream Getaway, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta 2015: The Cunning Little Vixen with Alexandra Flood, New Hall, Sydney Grammar School, Sydney March 2021: The Marriage of Figaro, pocket opera with Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, Concert Hall, The Concourse, Chatswood June 2021: Fidelio and Der Rosenkavalier double bill pocket operas June 2021: The Rape of Lucretia, pocket opera 2022: The Magic Flute, pocket opera May 2022: Suor Angelica, pocket opera May 2022: Albert Herring, pocket opera October 2022: Evening of Oratorio, excerpts from Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (full) November 2022: L'elisir d'amore, followed by Madama Butterfly, pocket operas June 2023: Don Giovanni, pocket opera July 2023: Paul Carr's Requiem for an Angel (Australian premiere) and Ubi Caritas August 2023: The Barber of Seville, pocket opera May 2024: Discovering Die Fledermaus, prepared and directed by Gale Edwards August 2024: The Impresario and Le nozze di Figaro May 2025: Samson (abridged) with The Muffat Collective (instrumentalists)"Samson (Pacific Opera Studio & The Muffat Collective)" by Shamistha de Soysa, 19 May 2025, Limelight June 2025: The Magic Flute, pocket opera August 2025: Opera Scenes, from La bohème and La clemenza di Tito
References
External links
"Schedule", Operabase