Deborah Humble interviews the 25-year-old winner of the 2016 City of Sydney Eisteddfod Operatic Aria Award and Melba Trust Scholar. When the City of Sydney Eisteddfod asked the entrants in this year’s Opera Scholarship to explain why they so loved this particular genre of music, countertenor Nicholas Tolputt stated that opera offers ‘truthfulness’ and requires ‘commitment,’…
For over three decades the International Foundation for Arts and Culture (IFAC) Australian Singing Competition (ASC) has helped discover and fund career opportunities for some of our region’s finest talent in opera and classical singing. Last weekend, five young singers cams closer to realizing their dreams when they were selected to participate in the…
The IFAC Australian Singing Competition has announced the ten gifted singers who will progress to the semi-finals of this prestigious annual competition. Following heats around Australia, in Auckland and in London, sopranos Sarah Ampil, Morgan Balfour, Zoe Drummond and Sarah Wang, all from NSW, mezzo-sopranos Anastasia Bickel (QLD) and Fleuranne Brockway (WA), soprano Eliza…