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Christine Douglas

Christine Douglas

Australian opera singer and director

Christine Douglas is an Australian opera singer and director.

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Douglas, a soprano, trained at the Victorian College of the Arts.[1] She performed in multiple Australian Opera productions including Cosi fan tutte, Fidelio, La Bohème, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pagliacci, The Magic Flute, Patience, and Hansel and Gretel.[2][3]

The soundtrack album to an Opera Australia staging of Hansel and Gretel earned a nomination for the 1999 ARIA Award for Cast or Show Album for Opera Australia, Christine Douglas and Suzanne Johnston.

In 2003 Douglas and Sylvie Renaud-Calmel established Pacific Opera. With Douglas as artistic director they have staged productions of several operas including Cosi fan Tutti set in a football club, Barber of Seville done "Los Angeles style" and The Magic Flute as a circus show.[2] She has also directed The Marriage of Figaro for Opera Australia.[3]

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony held by the Australian Recording Industry Association. They commenced in 1987.

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References

  1. [1]
    Schwartzkoff, Louise (13 June 2010), "Voice in the wilderness", Sun Herald
  2. [2]
    Sorensen, Rosemary (7 July 2008), "Opera's free radical", The Australian
  3. [3]
    Barclay, Alison (24 March 2000), "A director of note", Herald-Sun
  4. [4]
    ARIA Award previous winners. "History Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
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