Address
Box 69, Holme Building
The University of Sydney 2006

Venue
Cleveland St Theatre

Company information
Our goal is to provide emerging artists with regular opportunities to participate in the production of opera and share Sydney University’s extraordinary wealth of talent with the broader community. We intend to fulfil this goal by producing at least two fully staged operas per year using a cross-section of the University’s student singers, musicians, composers, directors, designers and technicians, starting in 2010. The essence of our artistic agenda is innovation and quality, and we aim to set a precedent of encouraging more student composers to write new operas. We operate under the umbrella of the University of Sydney Union’s Clubs and Societies programme, like the celebrated Sydney University Dramatic Society and the Sydney University Music Society. Our models are the Cambridge University Opera Society and Oxford University’s New Chamber Opera, both of which demonstrate how rich an asset a university opera company can be. Indeed, dozens of graduates who pass through their ranks go on to become leading opera artists and professionals in the UK and Europe. In doing this we are breaking new ground in Australia as the first students to pursue an endeavour of this nature anywhere in the country. Opera is still a relatively undervalued art form in Australia and opportunities for students and emerging artists to contribute in a meaningful way are extremely scarce. We feel it is essential to the future of opera in Australia that more students are given the chance to practise, sharpen their skills, prepare for the professional world, and most importantly, to experiment and create bold and intellectually rigorous new productions. We sincerely hope you will be able to attend or even participate in our performances as they come up and we are deeply grateful for your support in realising our vision.

Further information
Louis Garrick

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