Antoinette Halloran

Antoinette Halloran is an Australian operatic soprano.

Education

Antoinette Halloran is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts where she won the Mabel Kent Scholarship and completed a Diploma of Arts (Voice); she has an Honours Degree in Music from the University of Melbourne. In 1993 she studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

Career

In 1997 Halloran appeared in the Australian film "True Love And Chaos" [Imdb title|0117975|True Love And Chaos|(1996)] . Halloran also appeard on the 2000 album "Since I Left You" by the Australian electronic music group The Avalanches. [ [http://www.cdconnection.com/details/Avalanches__Since_I_Left_You/940728?s=xCWgNXRO2716 "Since I Left You", notes and credits] ] She played Gilda in "Rigoletto — a perversion" and Desdemona in "Otello — s subversion" for Theatreworks in their Verdi trilogy. [http://www.musictheatreaustralia.com.au/component/option,com_catalogue/catid,25/pid,2133294297/Itemid,33/listby,category/ Antoinette Halloran — profile (One Stop Enterteinment)] ]

Early in her career, she performed Mimì in Puccini's "La bohème" for Oz Opera (the touring arm of Opera Australia); she would reprise that role several times in her career. In November 2002 she sang the title role in Jonathan Mills'Jonathan Mills is since 2006 director of Edinburgh International Festival] "The Ghost Wife" at the Barbican Centre in London with Richard Gill conducting.Dimity Shepherd also sang in that production of "The Ghost Wife", and she is part of "Opera Burlesque" and of DivasInc.] [ [http://www.arts-archive.com/index.php?pg=12&action=performance&pid=L458979461&arch=Y Arts Archive: "The Gost Wife" at the Barbican] ]

For Chamber Made Opera, Halloran has performed roles in Dominique Probst's "Motherland of the Foreign Son" and in Elena Kats-Chernin's "Matricide - the Musical". [ [http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pjtogher/soprano/hallora.htm Halloran's manager's (Patrick Togher) website] ] In 1999, she sang Madam Olga in a national tour of Lehár's The Merry Widow, and the Mona Lisa for the Australian premiere of the musical "". In 2000, Antoinette was cast by the New York Producers of Forbidden Broadway to perform opposite Philip Gould in the Melbourne season. In 2002, she appeared as Sophie de Palma in the national touring production of "Master Class".

In 2004, she toured Japan as Carlotta in Ken Hill’s "Phantom of the Opera" and played the role of Mrs Segstrom for the Melbourne Theatre Company in their production of Sondheim's A Little Night Music in Melbourne and Sydney. [ [http://www.allegromusic.com.au/index.php?option=com_directory&task=profile&lid=202 Biography (Allegro Music)] ] Also in 2004 Halloran was the winner of the Puccini Foundation Award of the Australian Acclaim Awards which enabled her to study under the Italian soprano Carla Maria Izzo and perform the roles of Kate Pinkerton inPuccini's "Madama Butterfly" and Prima Ancella in "Turandot" at the prestigious Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago, Italy. [ [http://www.acclaimawards.com.au/ The Acclaim Awards (see: About Acclaim)] ] She also represented Australia at the "International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition", conducted by the Wiener Kammeroper. [ [http://www.opera-australia.org.au/scripts/nc.dll?OPRA:STANDARD:1001:pc=PC_90258 Short profile] (Opera Australia)]

In 2006, she appeard with Ali McGregor and Dimity Shepherd in the show "Opera Burlesque" in the Spiegeltent "La Gayola" at the Edinburgh Festival [ [http://www.theatreguidelondon.co.uk/reviews/edinburgh2006-2.htm Edinburgh 2006] ] For "Opera Burlesque" see also [http://www.operaburlesque.com/home.html their home page] ]

Roles for Opera Australia proper include again Mimì in "La bohème", Despina in Mozart's "Così fan tutte", Gianetta in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Gondoliers" and Josephine in "H.M.S. Pinafore", Ellen in Delibes' "Lakmé".

For Melbourne Opera she has sung Cio-Cio San in "Madama Butterfly", Donna Elvira in Mozart's "Don Giovanni, Pamina in "The Magic Flute" and Fiordiligi in "Così fan tutte". Halloran sang Fiordiligi for the inaugural season of Victorian Opera in 2006.

The same year she also appeared as a judge and panelist on the ABC Television series "Operatunity Oz", and she appears regularly on the ABC show "Spicks and Specks".

In 2007, Halloran sang the title role in Antonín Dvorák's "Rusalka" (in Czech), a highly acclaimed Stella in Previn's "A Streetcar Named Desire" which won her a Helpmann Award nomination for best "Best female performer in a supporting role in an opera", [ [http://www.australianstage.com.au/news/industry-news/nominations-for-2008-helpmann-awards-announced-1622.html Nominations for 2008 Helpmann Awards announced, 01 July 2008, Australian Stage Online] ] and Johanna Barker in Sondheim's for Opera Australia.

In 2008 she sang again Cio-Cio San and Mimì both for Opera Australia and, in a different production, for New Zealand Opera, and Adina in Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" for Victorian Opera.

Concert performances of Antoinette Halloran include Mozart's "Requiem" with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Orff's" Carmina Burana" with the Melbourne Chorale, John Adams' "El Niño" with Sydney Philharmonia, Haydn’s "Creation"and Fauré's "Requiem" with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic. She has appeared in concert with Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet for the Sydney Festival. Halloran has also been invited as guest soloist with the Adelaide and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.

Corporate ventures

Halloran originally performed with the classical performance group Pot-Pourri; having also reached an advanced level of classical ballet, she became later their choreographer and artistic consultant. [ [http://www.move.com.au/artist.cfm/180 Move (record label)] : Pot-Pourri]

Anoinette Halloran, Dimity Shepherd, Emily Whelan, Tiffany Speight, Danielle Calder, Ali McGregor form the group DivasInc ("Undercover Operators"), which specialises in bringing theatrical entertainment to corporate functions and concerts like Carols by Candlelight. [ [http://www.divasinc.com.au/WhoAreWe.aspx DivasInc. Who are we?] ]

Recordings

*"Rhythm of Life" (1995) (with Pot-Pourri), Move Records, Cat. No.: MCD058
*"Something Familiar! Something Peculiar!" (1997) (with Pot-Pourri), Move Records, Cat. No.: MCD086
*"Puccini Romance", ABC Classics, Cat. No.: 476 6404:Arias and duets (With Rosario La Spina) from "La bohème", "Tosca", "Le Villi", "La fanciulla del West", "La Rondine", "Turandot", "Madama Butterfly"
*"A Night at the Opera — The Greatest Arias & Duets", ABC Classics, Cat. No.: 476 6743:"O soave fanciulla" ("La boheme"); "Un bel dì vedremo" ("Madama Butterfly"); "Viene la sera" ("Madama Butterfly")

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References

External links

* [http://mirror.operabase.com/listart.cgi?lang=en&name=antoinette+halloran&action=S Opera performances]
* [http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=searchResults&term1=Halloran,%20Antoinette,&scope=scope&parameter1=phrase&location1=Anywhere Recordings listed at Music Australia] (National Library of Australia)
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