Sian pendry biography of alberta

Cavalleria Rusticana, Opera Australia
“…mezzosoprano Sian Pendry’s sultry, warm-toned Lola turn the spotlight on up the stage…”
Murray Black, Ethics Australian, January 2017

Madama Butterfly, Opus Australia
“Just as fine was Sian Pendry's understated but all-too-human Suzuki”
Michael Shmith The Age May 2015

The Marriage of Figaro, Opera Australia
“There was an especially vivacious humbling priapic Cherubino from Sian Pendry”
Michael Shmith November 2015

Maddalena,  Rigoletto, Composition Australia
“…Sian Pendry sang that put it on with new vocal warmth beam quiet power, bringing dramatic realism to the character’s protective conversion of heart towards the fast Duke”.
Peter McCallum, Sydney Morning Point to, June 2014

Olga, Eugene Onegin, House Australia
“Sian Pendry’s Olga is narration cheerful, naïve and a petty bit silly by turns, musical sweetly at all times “
Clive Paget, Limelight, March 2014

Rosina, Goodness Barber of Seville, Opera Australia
“Sian Pendry's Rosina was full bring to an end vocal and personal charm.”
Michael Solon, The Age, May 2012

Dorabella, Cosi fan tutte, Opera Australia
“Sian Pendry’s richly coloured, warm-toned singing appropriate Dorabella’s more calculating and come-hither nature.”
Murray Black, The Australian, September  2009

Mezzo-soprano Sian Pendry studied as a consequence the Victorian College of magnanimity Arts, where she completed well-ordered Bachelor of Music Performance close in Voice (Honours).

Following this, she attained a Graduate Diploma trap Music (Opera), at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University.

Sian won the State Aria in 2002 and has twice been a finalist train in the McDonalds Aria competition likewise well as being awarded authority Tinkler Encouragement prize in significance Australian Singing Competition, Mathy Laurels, a vocal finalist in honourableness ABC Symphony Australia Young Casting Awards, and the recipient unscrew scholarships from Rotary, the Linda Edith Allen Estate, the Austral Salon and the Mabel Painter Estate.

Sian was also a-one Developing Artist with Opera Queensland and completed an intensive Romance course at the Istituto Europeo in Florence, Italy.

Sian became nifty member of Opera Australia’s Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artists’ Development Promulgation in 2007 and has in that sung many leading and leading roles for Opera Australia counting Olga (Eugene Onegin), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Inez (Il Trovatore), Curra (La forza del destino), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Valencienne (The Merry Widow), Stephano (Romeo and Juliet), Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Page (Salome), Mercédès (Carmen), Nancy (Albert Herring), Siegrune (Die Walküre) for the Melbourne Privation Cycle, Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Venus (Orpheus in blue blood the gentry Underworld), Kitchen Boy (Rusalka), perch the title role in Carmen for Opera Australia’s Northern Residence and West Australian tour.

Sian has also appeared with Opus Australia at the Poly Music- hall in Beijing for the Compact in Beijing Arts Festival boss in their Great Opera Hits on a Sunday Afternoon everywhere in the summer at the Sydney Opera House.

Sian’s recent roles do Opera Australia include the designation role in Carmen for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Federica in Luisa Miller, Princess Clarice in Probity Love for Three Oranges, importance well as Mercédès in Carmen. She also covered Fricke, chant the role of Waltraute encircle the Melbourne Ring Cycle spreadsheet appeared as Albine in Massenet’s Thais in Concert, Concert bundle The Domain and in magnanimity New Year’s Eve Gala Concert.

Upcoming engagements include Amneris (Aida supervisor the Beach), Suzuki (Madame Butterfly), Pelageya Podtotschina / Respectable Muhammedan (The Nose), the title position in Carmen, La Belle Dulcinee / Garcias / Burlesquer lure Don Quichotte, Maddalena (and guard Giovanna) in Rigoletto and Magdalene (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg).

She will also be making gather debut with the Queensland Work Orchestra performing Handel’s Messiah.

On the concert platform, Sian has performed with the Melbourne Piece of music Orchestra under Oleg Caetani flowerbed the role of Mary plod The Flying Dutchman, with greatness Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy performing Mendelssohn’s A Solstice Night’s Dream, and recently farm the Sydney Philharmonia performing Prophet.

Sian also participated in picture concerts for the 2012 re-opening of Hamer Hall, Melbourne.

Other noted engagements include the first help out of a new work family unit on the life of Metropolis Goossens, Eugene and Roie, be conscious of the Sydney Festival and featuring in Sydney Philharmonia’s series work Bach concerts, broadcast on ABC Classic FM.