Antoinette Halloran

Antoinette is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and The University of Melbourne (Honours Degree in Music). In 2005, she was the winner of the Acclaim Awards (through the Australian Puccini Foundation) which
enabled her to study as well as perform the roles of Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Prima ancella in Turandot at Torre del Lago in Italy.

For Opera Australia, Antoinette has performed the title roles in Rusalka and Madama Butterfly, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Mimì in La bohème, Despina in Così fan tutte, Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore, Gianetta in The Gondoliers, Ellen in Lakmé and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus. Other performances include the roles of Mimì in La bohème and the title role in The Ghost Wife (for OzOpera; the latter was performed at the Barbican in London), Mimì in La bohème (for NBR New Zealand Opera), Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Adina in L’elisir d’amore (for Victorian Opera), the title role in Tosca and Madama Butterfly, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Pamina in The Magic Flute and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (for Melbourne Opera), Mrs Segstrom in A Little Night Music (for Melbourne Theatre Company) and Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera (in Japan).

On the concert platform, Antoinette has appeared as a soloist with the Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras and performed with Elvis Costello (at the Sydney Festival). Other engagements include Mozart’s Requiem (with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra), Orff’s Carmina Burana (with the Melbourne Chorale), Haydn’s The Creation and Fauré’s Requiem (with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic) and Adams’ El Niño (with the Sydney Philharmonia). She was also a guest judge and panellist on the series Operatunity Oz (in 2006) and is a regular
guest on the series Spicks and Specks (both on ABC TV). Antoinette recently released Puccini Romance for ABC Classics with tenor Rosario La Spina and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

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