VICTORIAN OPERA GOING STRONG
17 Green Room Award nominations
MELBOURNE, FEBRUARY 16, 2010- Victorian Opera has been nominated for 17 awards in the Green Room Award nominations today.
Victorian Opera has been nominated in every opera category and each production in the entire season has received a nomination. The brand new Australian work Rembrandt's Wife, composed by Andrew Ford and libretto by Sue Smith, received the most nominations.
Currently half of the VO nominated artists are rehearsing at Horti Hall for the upcoming double bill of The Bear and Angélique at the Playhouse, Arts Centre from 10-20 March 2010. Theyinclude Rembrandt's Wife director Talya Masel and set designer Adam Gardnir, as well as singers Gary Rowley, Andrew Collis, Samuel Dundas, Paul Biencourt and Jacob Caine
"These nominations are testament to the skills and experience of all the Victorian Opera artists under the direction of Richard Gill. We are all extremely proud. We know our entire 2009 season delighted audiences and artists so it is fantastic this has been recognised by the Green Room panel. We are particularly pleased that our work in commissioning and performing a brand new Australian opera each and every year is being affirmed."
Lucy Shorrocks, Managing Director
A full list of Victorian Opera nominations is listed below, for any media enquiries please do not hesitate to contact us.
Production: Rembrandt's Wife - Victorian Opera // Xerxes - Victorian Opera
Direction: Talya Mazel - Rembrandt's Wife (Victorian Opera)
Female in a Leading Role: Jacqueline Dark (Composer) - Ariadne auf Naxos (Victorian Opera) // Tiffany Speight (Romilda) - Xerxes and (Donna Elvira) Don Giovanni (Victorian Opera)
Male in a Leading Role: Tobias Cole (Xerxes) - Xerxes (Victorian Opera) // Andrew Collis (Leporello) Don Giovanni (Victorian Opera) // Gary Rowley (Rembrandt van Rijn) Rembrandt's Wife (Victorian Opera)
Female in a Supporting Role: Roxane Hislop (Geertje Dircx) - Rembrandt's Wife (Victorian Opera) //
Jacqueline Porter (Saskia / Hendrickje Stoffels) - Rembrandt's Wife (Victorian Opera) //
Dimity Shepherd (Arsamene) - Xerxes (Victorian Opera)
Male in a Supporting Role: Paul Biencourt (Flinck / Torquinius) - Rembrandts Wife (Victorian Opera) //Anthony Mackey (Truffaldino / Lackey) Jacob Caine (Scaramuccio / Officer) and Paul Biencourt (Brighella) and Samuel Dundas (Harlequin) - Ariadne auf Naxos (Victorian Opera)
Conductor: Richard Gill - Rembrandt's Wife (Victorian Opera) // John O'Donnell - Xerxes (Victorian Opera)
Set and/or Costume Design: Adam Gardnir (Set and Costume) - Rembrandt's Wife (Victorian Opera)
Lighting Design: Ben Cobham - Rembrandt's Wife (Victorian Opera)
For interviews and further information:
Pia Johnson 0413 450 951 pia.johnson@gmail.com
Thomas Drent 03 9001 6414 0410 585 578 thomasd@victorianopera.com.au
