Emma Matthews'

i am what i am 3 5 1 2 6 FAMILYEmma MatthewALBUM s' 4 tHis Opera singer’s 1. too many sisters 3. dag day afternoon 5. the soprano Career continues i was born in Manchester, in the uK, in it soon became clear i was musical, but my donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor is my tO Hit tHe HigH nOtes. 1970, but when i was four, my dad got a school in Vanuatu was quite limited in the arts favourite opera and this year i’ll be doing job as the harbourmaster in suva, fiji. this is department. When i was 13 we moved to two versions, with Opera australia and with me, aged five, holding my second sister, liz. Cairns, where i started having singing lessons. the West australian Opera. it’s a role that i was thrilled to have another sister, but when i was a total dag when i came to australia. uses rapid movements and very high, floaty Interview Ruth Kotevich my third sister, rebecca, was born, i was i had hairy legs and i got called horrible singing, and shows off the top of my voice. disgusted. i had wanted a brother, so i told names because of it. When i eventually [Matthews is also performing as a guest Mum to put her back in! as harbourmaster in shaved my legs, i only shaved the front – i soloist with the australian youth Orchestra, suva, dad would bring in all the big boats. didn’t realise you had to shave the back, too! conducted by simone young, in Brisbane Our house was massive and the deputy prime next month.] minister lived next door. Coming from a little 4. mrs matthews town in england, it was a luxurious lifestyle! soon after i moved to sydney in 1993 and 6. staying mum got a job with Opera australia, i met stephen earlier this year, i had some time off, so 2. island life Matthews. He was a tenor and i first saw him i took the boys [sons Brendan, 7, and fiji was lovely, but when i was 11, we left in the green room at the Opera House. We Jack,10] down to Kiama on the NSW for Vanuatu because of political unrest. this started chatting, and when he walked away, south coast. We sat on the rocks taking Vanuatu school photo is hilarious! i have a silly i admired his bottom in his jeans! We were silly photos of each other and just laughed grin on my face, huge glasses and a towelling married in 1996 at st andrew’s Cathedral. it and laughed. it’s one of those memories dress [Matthews is at far right]. i look back took six months to decide if i should change i will always treasure. i always seem to have on this time and think the ni-Vanuatu and the my surname from lysons. i really wanted to music in my head that i have to learn and white communities were very separate, but i be emma Matthews and to have the same the pressure of the next gig ahead of me. Scan photo #4 to see more was lucky – at my school there were only three name that my kids were to have, but some this was a time when i didn’t have any of photos of emma Matthews. white girls. We’d sing all the time and the of the older singers said terribly negative that and i could totally be a mum – just how See page 5 for details. local girls had a natural instinct to harmonise. things about taking on a married name. the kids wanted me to be. 12 sunday life .

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Emma Matthews Soprano Curriculum Vitae Opera Repertoire Monteverdi LIncoronazione di Poppea Damigella OA Gillian Whitehead Bride of fortune Fiorina WAO Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld Cupid WAO Les Contes d’Hoffmann Olympia, Giulietta, Antonia, Stella OA, SOSA Berg Lulu Lulu, OA Handel Alcina Morgana OA Rinaldo Almirena OA Orlando Angelica OA Giulio Cesare Cleopatra OA Mozart Die Zauberflote Papagena, WAO, OA Pamina OA Queen of the Night OA Le Nozze di Figaro Barbarina WAO, OA Cherubino OA Idomeneo Ilia OA La Clemenza di Tito Servillia OA Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Blonde OA, Konstanze OA Mitridate, Re di Ponto Ismene, Sydney Festival Gilbert and Sullivan The Priates of Penzance Mabel OA The Mikado Yum Yum OA Alan Johns The Eighth Wonder Sky, Tour Guide Aunt Olive OA Bellini La Sonnambula Amina OA, SOSA I Capuleti e I Montecchi Giulietta OA Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor Lucia OA, WAO La Fille du Regiment Marie OA L’Elisir d’amore Giannetta WAO Delibes Lakme Lakme OA Bizet Les Pecheurs de Perles Leila OA, WAO, OQ Janacek The Cunning Little Vixen The Vixen OA, ROH Richard Mills Batavia Zwaantie OA, WAO The Love of the Nightingale Philomele OA, WAO Gounod Romeo et Juliette Juliette OA Puccini Suor Angelica Genovieffa OA Kalman The Gypsy Princess Stasi OA J. Strauss Die Fledermaus Adele OA Massenet Werther Sophie OA R. Strauss Arabella Zdenka OA Der Rosenkavalier Sophie OA Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia Rosina OA, WAO Il Turco in Italia Fiorilla OA Il Signor Bruschino Sofia OA Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera Oscar OA Falstaff Nannetta OA Rigoletto Gilda OQ, OA La Traviata Violetta HOSH, OA Berlioz Beatrice et Benedict Hero OA Orchestral Repertoire Faure Requiem, Carmina Burana, C.
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