Perth Symphonic Chorus continues a 280-year-old tradition of performing G. F. Handel’s timeless oratorio, Messiah. A Christmas ritual in Perth, Messiah always delights audiences with spectacular singing and orchestral playing.

Soloists Sara Macliver, Margaret Trubiano, Benjamin Rasheed and Robert Hofmann join with Perth Symphonic Chorus to present well-loved pieces like Rejoice Greatly, the Trumpet Shall Sound, the Amen Chorus and the timeless Hallelujah Chorus.

The Perth Baroque Orchestra is led by distinguished baroque specialist Paul Wright in a performance conducted by James Pratt.

Handel needed just 24 days to write Messiah in the summer of 1741. His musical setting of the life of Jesus Christ is part narrative, part meditation. Another famous work by Handel, Zadok the Priest, was performed for the 9th time at a coronation ceremony this year. The enduring popularity of these works has immortalised Handel as one of the greatest ever composers.

Presented by Freeze Frame Opera

Fremantle Prison East Workshops - 28 - 30 November 2024 at 7 pm

CAST: RACHELLE DURKIN, EMMA PETTEMERIDES, HATTIE MARSHALL, BRETT PEART, KOHSEI GILKES, JAMES PINNERI, JAKE BIGWOOD, ROBERT HOFMANN

CHORUS: SOPHIE HAMER, EMILY DAVIS, NOAH HUMICH, EUAN MACMILLAN, LAURENCE WESTRIP

DIRECTOR - PENNY SHAW

MUSIC DIRECTOR - TOMMASO POLLIO

DESIGNER - RHI WALKER

LIGHTING - JERRY REINHARDT

CELLIST - SOPHIE CURTIS

Presented by Freeze Frame Opera

Fremantle Prison East Workshops - 28 - 30 November 2024 at 7 pm

CAST: RACHELLE DURKIN, EMMA PETTEMERIDES, HATTIE MARSHALL, BRETT PEART, KOHSEI GILKES, JAMES PINNERI, JAKE BIGWOOD, ROBERT HOFMANN

CHORUS: SOPHIE HAMER, EMILY DAVIS, NOAH HUMICH, EUAN MACMILLAN, LAURENCE WESTRIP

DIRECTOR - PENNY SHAW

MUSIC DIRECTOR - TOMMASO POLLIO

DESIGNER - RHI WALKER

LIGHTING - JERRY REINHARDT

CELLIST - SOPHIE CURTIS

Presented by Freeze Frame Opera

Fremantle Prison East Workshops - 28 - 30 November 2024 at 7 pm

CAST: RACHELLE DURKIN, EMMA PETTEMERIDES, HATTIE MARSHALL, BRETT PEART, KOHSEI GILKES, JAMES PINNERI, JAKE BIGWOOD, ROBERT HOFMANN

CHORUS: SOPHIE HAMER, EMILY DAVIS, NOAH HUMICH, EUAN MACMILLAN, LAURENCE WESTRIP

DIRECTOR - PENNY SHAW

MUSIC DIRECTOR - TOMMASO POLLIO

DESIGNER - RHI WALKER

LIGHTING - JERRY REINHARDT

CELLIST - SOPHIE CURTIS

Join rising stars Sophie Hamer (Soprano) and James Pinneri (Baritone), and pianist extraordinaire Tommaso Pollio (Associate Artist), for an afternoon of operatic arias and duets surrounded by the beautiful art of The Orangery Gallery.

This concert serves as a fundraising opportunity and announcement of an exciting project by Sophie, James and Tommaso launching in early 2025.

There are limited tickets available, so please purchase your tickets in advance to support Sophie and James in their first self-produced opera concert and future endeavours.

Tickets are available via Try Booking:
Adults - $45.00
Student/Concession - $30.00

A special thank you to Mark Coughlan of The Orangery Gallery for the use of his beautiful venue.

Perth Symphonic Chorus presents a program of exquisite choral music, sublime harmonies and soaring melodies designed to soothe and delight music lovers. 

The program features Sir John Rutter's The Gift Of Life, a beautiful choral cycle, with six movements exploring the miracles of creation. 

Other works in the concert include Brahms' Geistliches Lied (Sacred Song) set to text by Paul Flemming: Let nothing afflict you with grief; be calm! Why worry today about tomorrow? and American composer Frank Ticheli's There Will Be Rest set to Sara Teasdale's poignant poem. 

The choir will also be singing a new arrangement of art songs by the English composer Ivor Gurney titled Five Elizabethan Songs (1914): Spring, Under the Greenwood Tree, Tears, Orpheus, and Sleep.

Come and join us at Beasley Hall (Perth Modern School) for an afternoon of feel-good choral music. To sample some of the beautiful John Rutter works, click here

Saturday 26 October at 2pm
Beasley Hall, Perth Modern School
90 Roberts Rd, Subiaco

Join the WA Opera Lovers Society for this special event. Enjoy a glass of wine and your favorite operatic moments with our resident artists for 24/25, Sophie Hamer, Beth Redwood, Emily Davis, Noah Humich, and James Pinneri and our very special guest, our patron, Emma Matthews, AM, accompanied by Lydia Lai.

Opera stars visiting Margaret River for a rare concert with vocalists singing well known arias and popular melodies. These highly acclaimed performers are down from Perth for the September long weekend only. Light lunch, tea and coffee included after the show.

Join us at Jesters Flat for a very special night of opera under the southern skies.

Hosted in the evening quiet of the Jesters Flat grounds, surrounded by our beautiful horses, an intimate group of just 50 guests will be treated to a selection of operatic masterpieces by Puccini, Mozart, Bernstein, and Sondheim and light-hearted theatrical ensemble pieces.

The opera ensemble is comprised of Soprano’s Sophie Hamer and Charis Postmus, Tenor Noah Humich and Baritone James Pinneri, all professional Perth artists who have worked with Freeze Frame Opera, the West Australian Opera, Opus WA, the West Australian Symphonic Chorus, Perth Symphonic Chorus and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.

Your ticket includes a glass of Jesters Flat Sauvignon Blanc or Cabernet Merlot with the wine bar also open for additional purchases (no BYO alcohol permitted). Farmhouse hampers are available for pre-order or you are welcome to bring your own packed picnic.

This exclusive event will be held outdoors so we invite you to dress warmly and bring a cozy blanket to ensure your comfort.

The Details:

• Arrive at Jesters Flat, 1549 Rosa Brook Rd, 5pm.

• Complimentary glass of wine on arrival.

• Seating provided, either undercover or out on the lawns, dependent on weather.

• Wine bar available for purchases. No BYO alcohol.

• Meet the horses in the round yard.

• Collect pre ordered platters

• Concert starts at 6pm

• Interval approx. 6.45pm

• Second half of concert at 7pm.

• Concert Finishes 8pm.

An Opera Night by Candlelight

If you were to come to Woody Nook Wines on Saturday, September 21 at 6.30pm, you would be in for a really special evening.

A professional WA operatic ensemble will entertain you as you enjoy a delicious 4 courses dinner in our candlelit alfresco dining area (with blinds down and fires on) all for $120 per person or $145 if you wish to take advantages of return transport from Margaret River/Cowaramup or Busselton/Dunsborough.

Supported by West Australian Opera.

Most recently performed as part of the Perth Fringe Festival, this immersive production experience aimed at Secondary School students explores the gothic and supernatural side of Art Song, Opera and Musical Theatre. Performed at the Liberty Theatre, this spooky show encourages multisensory engagement for students and applies to many aspects of West Australian Curriculum across a range of subjects including Music, Drama, English, Literature and Humanities.

Date: Thursday September 12, 6:30pm
Venue: Liberty Theatre Perth
Duration: 90 minutes with a short break in the middle
Suitability: Secondary school group bookings, individuals under 18 with a parent or guardian

Booking Enquiries: education@waopera.asn.au

Join the talented young singers of OpusWA with pianist Mark Coughlan for a delightful afternoon of intimate and beautiful artsong. These songs are generally more subtle, delicate and finely nuanced than operatic arias and are intended to be shared in close proximity between performer and listener.

The Orangery Gallery is an inspired location to present such a glorious concert. This beautifully restored art space supports the work of West Australian artists and musicians, often combining art exhibitions with concerts.

Those attending the concert are invited to purchase a ticket for afternoon tea which will follow the performance. Stay and chat to the performers and enjoy the gallery and artworks.

Perth Symphonic Chorus is back with another program featuring the best of theatrical music, with highlights from Opera, Operetta and Musical Theatre.

Songs of Comedy & Tragedy brings you some of the most loved music from the golden years of Broadway, Grand Opera and sparkling Vienese Operetta!

Featuring a fantastic cast of soloists, Robert Hofmann leads a talented ensemble with Sophie Hamer, James Pinneri, Noah Humich and Anna Tsirigotis joining with Perth Symphonic Chorus to present choruses, duets and showtunes.

Don't miss this concert conducted by James Pratt, with accompanist Caroline Badnall at the Government House Ballroom.

Songs of Comedy & Tragedy - Act One: Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury, Act Two: highlights from Kiss Me Kate, The Secret Garden, West Side Story, Into the Woods, Mack and Mabel and more...

Proudly supported by Zenith Music and Snaden's Pianos.

Pre-concert talk presented by Tony Howes OAM from 1:30pm.

Sophie Hamer will be performing the Australian National Anthem at the ANZAC Day service held at the Mount Lawley Golf Club.

One of the most popular concerts of the year! Spend an afternoon at the opera enjoying some of the greatest moments from operatic gems from Mozart and Donizetti to Puccini and Verdi. The glamorous Government House Ballroom serves as the perfect setting for all the dramas and intrigue of opera – love won and lost, fate, power, desire with lives hanging in the balance. The OpusWA Arts Orchestra is once again directed by Mark Coughlan and joined by group of extraordinary young singers.

Presented in association with OpusWA Arts Orchestra and Chorale.

 Event details:

Sunday 21 April, 4pm
Government House Ballroom

Concert duration 120 minutes including 20 minute interval.

Humanity and the divine collide in Semele, the Australian premiere of John Eccles' opera of 1706, edited by Richard Platt and performed in semi-staged concert by innovative Baroque music collective, HIP Company.

Semele tells of the doomed love affair between the God Jupiter and the mortal Semele who seeks immortality, but will her ambition be rewarded or punished? Deception, disguise, desperation, and dragons abound in this exemplar from an underrated composer of the refined, yet virtuosic style of English opera of the time.

With artistic direction by Bonnie de la Hunty (soprano), Sarah Papadopoulos (violinist) and Krista Low (cellist) and an orchestra and cast of Perth's finest exponents of Baroque music led by Concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen (appearing courtesy of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra), Semele will delight both Baroque music connoisseurs and newcomers alike.

The performance lasts for 140 minutes including an interval, during which complimentary light refreshments sponsored by award-winning Margaret River winery, Victory Point Wines, will be served.

Opera tickets $70 (adult), $60 (concession), $40 (school-aged), available at events.humanitix.com/semele.

Cast:

Semele: Bonnie de la Hunty (soprano)
Jupiter: Lachlann Lawton (baritone)
Juno: Olivia Sanders-Robinson (mezzo soprano)
Ino: Sophie Hamer (soprano)
Cadmus: Brett Peart (baritone)
Athamus: Louis Hurley (tenor)
Iris: Rachael Liu (soprano)
Cupid: Lucinda Nicholls (soprano)
Somnus/Apollo: Benjamin Del Borello (baritone)
Chief Priest: David Woods (baritone)
Second Priest/First Augur: Jason Kroll (tenor)
Third Priest/Second Augur: Joshua Adams (baritone)

Sophie Hamer will be performing with Paul Wright (Violin) and Stewart Smith (Piano) at a private gala function at the Government House Ballroom, presented by Edith Cowan University.

Sophie Hamer will be performing ‘Nightfall’, a beautiful work for Soprano and String Orchestra by 2024 Performing Arts Perspectives winner, Lucas Tompkins.

The Performing Arts Perspectives is an important educational event on the annual calendar of Year 11 and 12 Performing Arts students.

The event showcases a selection of the highest standard of student performance and provides benchmarks of excellence in Dance, Drama and Music for students and teachers from the Public, Independent and Catholic education sector/systems.

The assortment of performers for inclusion in the programme are carefully made to reflect both the most skillful performances and the breadth of work covered in each subject discipline. The highest scoring students are invited to audition and from these, exceptional performers are chosen by a panel made up of representatives from the relevant professional arts areas and education sectors.

Now in its 28th year, this performance is an inspiring display of talent and excellence in the performing arts, celebrating the pinnacle of student achievement.

Sophie Hamer will be performing in a concert in honour of St. Patrick’s Day at St. Patrick’s Basilica, Fremantle.

Conductor: Josh Adams

Tenor: Paul O’Neill

Violinist: Steven Daly

Organist: Andrew Brown

The Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay has launched it’s 2024 Summer Gala Soirée on Sunday 28th of January at Woodbridge House. The wonderful artists, under the musical directorship, pianist and MC, Alessandro Pittorino, are Lachlann Lawton, Chelsea burns, Eimear Foley and Devon Lake, and rising stars James Pinneri, Sophie Hamer and Noah Humich.

This event is picnic style, so bring your rug, chair and picnic for a wonderful afternoon with some of Perth’s incredible artists who will be performing on the Freeze Frame Opera Truck as a stage.

All funds raised will go to the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay’s outstanding projects.

Enchanted Encounters - Songs of the Supernatural, is a unique, immersive concert experience, showcasing songs of the world’s most famous ghosts. 

Bringing alive music from ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Schubert’s ‘Wintereise’, Vaughan Williams’ ‘The New Ghost’, and more, Enchanted Encounters brings to you the songs you know, in a way you’ve never seen before.

This concert is a multi-art collaboration, showcasing the voices of Perth’s brightest upcoming talent, including Brett Peart, Charis Postmus, James Pinneri, Sophie Hamer, and Noah Humich, pianist Izaac Masters, dancers Wendy Seo and Elliot Dunn, as well as established visual artists Jules Hancock and Peter Barker. 

For the ultimate supernatural experience, join us in the abandoned Liberty Theatre; one of Perth’s most exciting performance spaces.

Enchanted Encounters - Songs of the Supernatural, is a unique, immersive concert experience, showcasing songs of the world’s most famous ghosts. 

Bringing alive music from ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Schubert’s ‘Wintereise’,  Vaughan Williams’ ‘The New Ghost’, and more, Enchanted Encounters brings to you the songs you know, in a way you’ve never seen before.

This concert is a multi-art collaboration, showcasing the voices of Perth’s brightest upcoming talent, including Brett Peart, Charis Postmus, James Pinneri, Sophie Hamer, and Noah Humich, pianist Izaac Masters, dancers Wendy Seo and Elliot Dunn, as well as established visual artists Jules Hancock and Peter Barker. 

For the ultimate supernatural experience, join us in the abandoned Liberty Theatre; one of Perth’s most exciting performance spaces.

Sophie performed a selection of operatic arias and crowd favourites for a private event.

For booking enquiries for concerts, weddings, dinner parties and funerals, please click here.

Perth Symphonic Chorus continues a 280-year-old tradition of performing G. F. Handel’s timeless oratorio, Messiah. A Christmas ritual in Perth, Messiah always delights audiences with spectacular singing and orchestral playing.

Soloists Emma Matthews AM, Fiona Campbell, Paul O'Neill and Teddy Tahu Rhodes join with Perth Symphonic Chorus to present well-loved pieces like Rejoice Greatly, the Trumpet Shall Sound, the Amen Chorus and the timeless Hallelujah Chorus.

The Perth Baroque Orchestra is led by distinguished baroque specialist Paul Wright in a performance conducted by James Pratt.

Handel needed just 24 days to write Messiah in the summer of 1741. His musical setting of the life of Jesus Christ is part narrative, part meditation. Another famous work by Handel, Zadok the Priest, was performed for the 9th time at a coronation ceremony this year. The enduring popularity of these works has immortalised Handel as one of the greatest ever composers.

Handel’s Messiah comes to Toodyay this year, when Perth Symphonic Chorus presents the famous work in the Memorial Hall on Saturday 9 December at 2:00pm Featuring the immortal Hallelujah Chorus, Messiah has become an annual Christmas tradition in WA. Joining with the 60-voice choir are some of Western Australia’s brightest young vocal soloists. Sophie Hamer, Beth Redwood, Charis Postmus, Olivia Ferguson, Euan MacMillan, Noah Humich, James Pinneri and Kyle Garces will delight the Toodyay audience with their incredible vocal ability. For nearly 30 years, Perth Symphonic Chorus has performed Messiah at Christmas time. Don’t miss this special performance!

Enchanted Encounters - Songs of the Supernatural, is a unique, immersive concert experience, showcasing songs of the world’s most famous ghosts. 

Bringing alive music from ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Schubert’s ‘Wintereise’,  Vaughan Williams’ ‘The New Ghost’, and more, Enchanted Encounters brings to you the songs you know, in a way you’ve never seen before.

This concert is a multi-art collaboration, showcasing the voices of Perth’s brightest upcoming talent, including Brett Peart, Charis Postmus, James Pinneri, Sophie Hamer, and Noah Humich, pianist Izaac Masters, dancers Wendy Seo and Elliot Dunn, as well as established visual artists Jules Hancock and Peter Barker. 

For the ultimate supernatural experience, join us in the abandoned Liberty Theatre; one of Perth’s most exciting performance spaces.

Enchanted Encounters - Songs of the Supernatural, is a unique, immersive concert experience, showcasing songs of the world’s most famous ghosts. 

Bringing alive music from ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Schubert’s ‘Wintereise’,  Vaughan Williams’ ‘The New Ghost’, and more, Enchanted Encounters brings to you the songs you know, in a way you’ve never seen before.

This concert is a multi-art collaboration, showcasing the voices of Perth’s brightest upcoming talent, including Brett Peart, Charis Postmus, James Pinneri, Sophie Hamer, and Noah Humich, pianist Izaac Masters, dancers Wendy Seo and Elliot Dunn, as well as established visual artists Jules Hancock and Peter Barker. 

For the ultimate supernatural experience, join us in the abandoned Liberty Theatre; one of Perth’s most exciting performance spaces.

Conductor: James Pratt

Associate Artist: Robert Graham

Perth Symphonic Chorus

Soloists: Sophie Hamer, James Pinneri, Noah Humich, Madeline Crofts and Anna Tsirigotis

Musical Theatre, Showtunes, Broadway – however you describe it, this genre has some of the most loved music of the 20th century.

Sunday, August 27, at 2:30pm, Perth Symphonic Chorus presents an afternoon of selected highlights from the world of Musical Theatre.

Featuring excerpts from My Fair Lady, Les Miserables, Candide, Ragtime, The Sound of Music, Cinderella, The Music Man and more! Please join us for this family friendly concert in the Perth Town Hall.

We know you’ll love listening to some of your favourite solo songs from our Margaret Pride Choral Scholars (and maybe even some more surprise guests), but we think the chorus gets to sing the best bits!

Repertoire: Poor Wandering One, ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ by Gilbert and Sullivan

Perth Symphonic Chorus presents the Australian premiere of
INVICTUS: A Passion, by Howard Goodall
and J.S. Bach's Cantata Christ Lag in Todes Banden BWV 4

Conductor: James Pratt

Soprano Soloist: Sophie Hamer

Tenor Soloist: Jacob Correia

Perth Symphonic Chorus and Perth Baroque Orchestra

Music for Easter Sunday

Bach's immortal cantata was composed in 1707 and has become synonymous with Easter. Based on the Gregorian chant Victimae Paschalis, Bach's setting of the Lutheran hymn is hauntingly beautiful.

Goodall's Invictus sets the passion story in a one-part oratorio with choir, soprano and tenor soloists and a chamber orchestra. Invictus (unconquered in Latin) features movements with text by poets including Emilia Lanier and Christina Rosetti. Goodall focuses on the female perspective of Christ's crucifixion including Mary Magdalene and his mother Mary.

Invictus features themes not unique to the story of Jesus Christ, with beautiful solo and choral singing, making this piece accessible to people of all faiths and beliefs.

10% discount is available when booking groups of 5+ - use promocode TUTTI