Sam Roberts-Smith
Rebecca Castellini Frasquita
Mercédès
Australian baritone Sam RobertsSmith is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and is already widely recognised as one of the most exciting and talented performers of his generation. Winner of numerous prizes and awards including the Marianne Mathy Scholarship: The Australian Singing Competition, Joan Sutherland Society of Sydney Award, Deutsche Oper Berlin Award: The Opera Foundation for Young Australians and various prizes at the Paris Opera Awards.
Rebecca Castellini made her professional debut with the West Australian Opera as the Cock/Jay in the 2018 production of The Cunning Little Vixen. She will continue to work with West Australian Opera for the rest of their 2018 Season, singing the roles of Frasquita, in Carmen, and Zerlina, in Don Giovanni. Rebecca also debuted with Lost and Found Opera this year, singing the role of Kate Kelly, in the Workshop Presentation of the new opera, Ned Kelly.
Praised for her “lusciously dark centred” voice by the Herald Sun, Fleuranne was born in Perth and completed a Bachelor of Music in Classical Vocal Performance under the tutelage of Megan Sutton at UWA. She has since furthered her vocal studies working with Gregory Yurisich AM and attended the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School from 2014-2016 on a full scholarship. In 2015, Fleuranne made her debut with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra as Cherubino in scenes from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and returned in 2016 as Meg in scenes from Verdi’s Falstaff. In 2016, she joined Victorian Opera as one of their Developing Artists. In 2017, Fleuranne joined West Australian Opera as one of their Wesfarmers Young Artists and is a joint recipient of the Bendat Scholarship. Last year, she was awarded first place in the National Liederfest competition, which saw her fly to Austria to attend the famous Franz Schubert Institute in Vienna. This year, Fleuranne joins Melba Opera Trust as the Annie McFarling Opera Scholarship and Ruskin Opera Scholarship recipient. She is the inaugural winner of the Australian International Opera Award to the Royal College of Music.
Moralès
He has recently finished his first season as a principal artist with the Deutsche Oper Berlin and is a former principal artist of Opera Australia. Even at this early stage of his career, Sam has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the operatic world including Leo Nucci, Patricia Racette, Simon Keenlyside, Stephen Costello, Charles Castronovo, Zeljko Lucic and Richard Bonynge.
Rebecca is a 2018 and 2017 Wesfarmers Young Artist with the West Australian Opera and Recipient of the Bendat Scholarship. Rebecca studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, completing a Graduate Diploma, Bachelor and Advanced Diploma of Music.
Until this year, Rebecca was working with West Australian Sam is a former mentored Artist Opera as a regular chorus of the West Australian Opera and member, performing in Lucia di dedicates his performance to his Lammermoor 2017, The Merry parents for their love and ongoing Widow 2017, Tosca 2017, Le support. Pêcheurs de Perles 2016, L’elisir d’amore 2016, Faust 2015 and Madama Butterfly 2015.
Fleuranne Brockway
Fleuranne Brockway is a 2018 Wesfarmers Young Artist and appears courtesy of West Australian Opera.