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Sian Sharp, Australian mezzo-soprano

Sian Sharp

Mezzo-soprano

“One of Opera Australia’s most versatile and accomplished singers”

Australian Arts Review

Australian mezzo-soprano Sian Sharp has been part of Opera Australia for over 20 years, amassing a repertoire of over 60 roles in the operatic canon. From Dorabella, Rosina, Prince Charming and Hermia, to Carmen, Maddalena, Amneris and Waltraute, she has performed across the full breadth of the repertoire and appears regularly in concert with Australia’s leading orchestras and choral organisations.

In 2026 Sian performs Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Olga (Eugene Onegin) and Maddalena (Rigoletto) for Opera Australia, features as mezzo-soprano soloist in the company’s 70th Anniversary Gala and Great Opera Hits concerts, and joins the Brisbane Chamber Choir as mezzo-soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

In 2025 she sang the title role in Carmen, Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Prince Charming (Cendrillon), Kitchen Boy (Rusalka) and Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas) for Opera Australia, featured in the Canberra Theatre’s 60th Anniversary Gala Concert, performed excerpts from Carmen with the Malaysian Philharmonic, and joined the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra for Rossini’s Stabat Mater.

Featured Repertoire

Mozart
Così fan tutteDorabella
IdomeneoIdamante
Le nozze di FigaroCherubino, Marcellina
Die ZauberflöteSecond Lady
Verdi
AidaAmneris
RigolettoMaddalena
OtelloEmilia
Luisa MillerFederica
Rossini
Il barbiere di SivigliaRosina
Il viaggio a ReimsMarchesa Melibea
Handel
PartenopeArsace
Britten
A Midsummer Night's DreamHermia
Albert HerringNancy
Puccini
Madama ButterflySuzuki
Suor AngelicaLa Zelatrice
Offenbach
Les contes d'HoffmannThe Muse
Massenet
CendrillonPrince Charming
Don QuichotteLa belle Dulcinée
ThaïsAlbine
Bizet
CarmenCarmen
Wagner
The Ring CycleWaltraute, Siegrune
Der fliegende HolländerMary
Gounod
Roméo et JulietteStéfano
Tchaikovsky
Eugene OneginOlga
Dvořák
RusalkaKitchen Boy
Humperdinck
Hänsel und GretelHansel
Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticanaLola
Giordano
Andrea ChénierBersi
Glass
SatyagrahaMrs Alexander
Mazzoli
Breaking the WavesDodo

Concert

Bach
St John Passion
Elgar
Dream of Gerontius
Handel
Messiah
Haydn
Harmoniemesse
Mahler
Symphony No. 8
Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Elijah
Mozart
Requiem
Rossini
Stabat Mater
Tippett
A Child of Our Time