Kicking Goals - Rebecca Cassidy! Young Artist Opera Queensland 2020
Friday, January 18, 2019 at 9:06PM
Named Opera Queenslands Sole Young Artist for 2020
Understudying Isolde in Tristan and isolde for Opera Queensland.
Winner of the Alton Budd Memorial Award Murwillumbah
Winner of the Queensland Vocal Competition
Finalist in the Australian Concerto and Vocal Competition (3rd place)
Role Debut Rosalinda from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss for Sound Thinking Summer School
Opera Queensland Soloist (Choice Voices)
Touring for Opera Queensland as a Principal Artist 2019
and so much more exciting news in 2019....stay tuned!
Susan Ellis
https://www.oldmuseum.org/event/bpo23may
SUNSET SONGS
In this Mother’s Day concert, BPO is thrilled to again work with maestro Nicholas Cleobury, Head of Opera at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, in a program of lush orchestral melodies.
Richard Strauss’ autumnal Four Last Songs is a celebration of the beauty of the female voice accompanied by some of his most gorgeous orchestral writing.
Why not take your mother to lunch before the concert at Bowen Hills’ exciting new King Street precinct just a short walk away!
Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury
Soloist: Rebecca Cassidy (soprano)
PROGRAM:
Catherine Likhuta |Rituals of Heartland
Richard Strauss | Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)
César Franck | Symphony in D minor
Susan Ellis
Since my last post Rebecca has been named Opera Queensland's Sole Young Artists for 2020. She will be covering the role of Isolde in Tristand and Isolde. (Yikes how exciting!)