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Mrs Margery Rey

Juel is a graduate of the University of Melbourne Conservatorium and has been a member of the Fondazione

Pergolesi Spontini in Italy and the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School.

She has sung roles and chorus for various companies including Opera Australia and has been a principal artist

for Victorian Opera, having sung the roles of Mrs Anderssen in A Little Night Music, the Flower Maiden in

Parsifal, The Green Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty as well as Madame de la Haltiére in their live streamed

production of Cendrillon during 2020.

For Melbourne Opera, Juel has sung Flora in La Traviata, Anina in La Traviata, Grimgerde in Die Walkure and

has performed as a soloist in the company’s Gala Opera concert tours of both China and Singapore.

Juel has also appeared with The Australian Ballet as the mezzo soloist in their production of Anna Karenina

Her concert appearances include being soloist with the Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra, Victoria Chorale and

Peninsula Chamber Orchestra, along with various other companies. Her recorded work includes La Partenza, a

collection of Italian songs and arias produced for the National Gallery Of Victoria’s Italian Masters Of The

Prado exhibition.

Recently, Juel sang the role of Caterina/Mezzo Soprano in Lyric Opera of Melbourne’s 2023 production of

Biographica by Mary Finstera and appeared as a Devil in Victorian Opera’s production of Richard Mill’s

Galileo.

Juel’s engagments for 2024 also include the role of Elizabeth for Lyric Opera of Melbourne’s production of The

Children’s Bach.

Dr Matthew Briggs / French crooner

Adrian has enjoyed a long and varied career as an opera singer, concert performer, music educator, director and producer. Most recently, he won his second Green Room Award for his performance of Hagen in Wagner’s, Götterdämmerung. In 2017, Adrian was the winner of Australia’s prestigious singing award, the Australian Opera Awards (YMF, MOST). His singing has featured on cinema releases of opera, DVD, international recordings, motion picture soundtracks, radio, and television. He is proud to have worked with companies such as Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, West Australian Opera, Melbourne Opera, Lost and Found Opera, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Zelman Symphony Orchestra, Sydney University Graduate Choir, Melbourne Bach Choir, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Inventi Ensemble. Over the past few years, he has focused on sharing his passion for music by teaching the next generation of musicians at Pure Harmony Music Studio in Melbourne. Over the years, Adrian has championed new Australian works and world premieres including Jane Hammond’s The Spare Room, Nicholas Buc’s Origins, Chistopher Bowen’s Redfern Oratorio and Luke Styles’ No Friend but the Mountains, which is based on the award-winning book of the same name by Behrouz Boochani which has been made into a documentary screened on ABC Television. Adrian has worked with renowned conductors and directors such as Asher Fisch, Andrea Molino, Andrea Battistoni, Jonathan Darlington, Pietari Inkinen, Carlo Montanaro, Renato Palumbo, Guillaume Tourniaire, David McVicar, and Francesca Zambello, as well as Australians Jessica Cottis, Erin Helyard, Barry Kosky, Bruce Beresford, and John Bell. 

Tom / Frank / chorus

Matthew O’Leary is an upcoming young Melbourne-based performer who is currently undertaking the third year of his Bachelor of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He has been a member of the Melbourne Conservatorium Chamber Choir, Early Voices and Vocal Ensemble groups since 2022, working under the direction of Anna Connolly, Andrea Katz, Steven Grant and Nick Dinopoulos. His recent credits include being a soloist with the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Chamber Choir (Dvorak: Mass in D Major), and ‘Pontius Pilate’ in the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Early Voices performance of Sebastiani’s St Matthew’s Passion, ‘Snout’ in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ with the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and participating in the “Schubert’s 1823 Project” with Graham Johnson OBE and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. This year, he is also choral scholar at St Peters Eastern Hill and the Choir of Trinity College.

Lyon's stylistically eclectic music explores humanistic themes from nature and lore to mathematics, with narrative dualities and rhythmic precision being strong recurring elements. Recently a finalist for Work of the Year: Dramatic for the ballet Precious Bedeviller, Lyon has been commissioned and performed by the Australian Ballet, Musica Viva, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring, Sydney Dance Company, National Capital Orchestra, Forest Collective, and Syzygy Ensemble. 

In 2024 new 90min opera, Pieces of Margery, will have a concert premiere produced by More Than Opera in mid-year. Lyon has been named one of the composer participants in the 2025 ANAM set. In August, Ensemble Offspring and soprano Jane Sheldon will premiere a short semi-theatrical work, Do Na Chaill,  as part of the Noisy Women Commission. Lyon is currently undertaking a PhD at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as part of the 2020-21 Composing Women Program, supervised by Liza Lim. Lyon was a finalist for the Beleura Emerging Composer Award as part of 2019 The Melbourne Prize, participant in the 2017 Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program, and winner of the 2009 Adolf Spivakovsky Scholarship for Composition. Their work has been featured on ABC Classic, 3MS Radio, and radio shows such as ABC Classics New Waves and Making Waves.