Soprano returns for Opera in the Arboretum

East Gosford soprano Angela Brewer will return to Pearl Beach for Opera in the Arboretum 2016.

This year's Opera in the Arboretum, which will be held on March 19, is already booked out.

It is an open-air festival of top Australian opera singers, held amongst the gum trees and kookaburras in the Pearl Beach Crommelin Native Arboretum.

Angela began her opera studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

She completed a Bachelor of Music Performance and an Honours degree.

Angela said she was often requested by the ABC to record and broadcast live to air concerts.

Her recorded repertoire includes Seven Early Songs by Alban Berg, a selection of Italian Aria Antiche, Russian art songs and arias by Shostakovich, a selection of 20th century American stage composers songs and Mr Tambourine Man - Seven Songs of Bob Dylan by John Corigiliano.

In 2003, she performed on stage as the solo operatic artists for the Australian Ballet's world premiere of Wild Swans at the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne State Theatre.

For 12 years, Angela performed as a chorus member, cover and principal artist with Opera Australia while regularly giving concerts and a Young Artist Recital for the company.

Angela was contracted every year in all main stage productions in Melbourne and Sydney until she resigned in 2009 to work overseas.

The same year she made her international operatic debut in Chinain Suor Angelica, Pucini and in May 2013 she was invited to audition at the Copenhagen Opera House, Denmark.

In 2010, she was invited back to Opera Australia as a guest artist in A Street Car Named Desire, Previn

She returned to Denmark in 2015.

Emails, 12 Feb 2016

Angela Brewer, East Gosford

Website, 18 Feb 2016

Opera.pearl-beach.com