The Opera Burlesque - The Ladies

The UK Ladies

Catherine Friel, Jacqueline Tate and Ali McGregor all went to the Royal Northern College of Music together. They divided their time between harmony and counterpoint classes and clubs like the Hacienda where they liked to listen to the pulsating pedagogy that was drum and bass in the late 90’s. Since then Catherine Friel has worked extensively with companies like the Carl Rosa Opera Co. both in the UK and overseas. She has also appeared in ‘Smack the Pony’ and presented ‘City Nites’ for Channel 4. Jacqueline Tate has also sung with The Carl Rosa Opera Co, sung with the London Symphony Orchestra and is one half of the Cabaret duo ‘The Scintillating Sinners’. You can read about Ali McGregor below or see www.alimcgregor.com

The Australian Ladies

Ali McGregor:

Ali is a green room award-winning Soprano who made her name as a principal soprano for Opera Australia. She has also performed in Italy, London, Edinburgh and Opera New Zealand. She has presented TV for Channel 4 UK, featured with Paul van Dyk on the soundtrack to ‘One Perfect Day’, regularly appears on ABC’s Spicks and Specks & is one of the stars of ‘La Clique’ at the Famous Spiegeltent all around the world. Her sell-out solo show 'Midnight Lullabies' has been performed in the Spiegeltent, at Adelaide festival, The Butterfly Club in Melbounre and will be performing at The Malthouse Theatre as part of the Melbourne Cabaret Festival in 2007. More about Ali.

Dimity Shepherd:

Dimity is a green room award winning mezzo soprano & WAPA graduate who has performed extensively with Opera Australia, Ozopera, The Eastern Metropolitan Opera & Opera Queensland. She has sung at the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide International Festivals, the BITE02 festival at London’s Barbican Theatre and featured in the feature film ‘One Perfect Day’. She has just completed an Australian tour playing the title role in Carmen for OzOpera and is about to play the lead role in Orphée et Eurydice for Victorian Opera. More about Dimity.

Antoinette Halloran:

Antoinette is a soprano who has performed with Opera Australia, Melbourne Theatre Company, Ozopera, Chambermade Opera, Melbourne Opera, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia & at the Puccini festival in Torre del Lago in Italy. She was recently nominated for a green room award for her portrayal of Madame Butterfly & featured on the Avalanches multi-award winning album ‘Since I left you’. Antoinette was also a judge on ABC's recent Operatunity series and has starred in both Sweeney Todd and Rusulka this year for Opera Australia. More about Antoinette.

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