What the audience said: "Great show - wind and the hares - cheers to you and the team - please let me know if it will be on again elsewhere - happy to recommend to other parents + come along again."
"Wonderful, we loved it."
"Would definitely come again!"
"Wonderful, we loved it."
"Would definitely come again!"
KinderOpera presents The Wind and the Hares by Barry Russell at the Melbourne Museum in association with Melbourne Music Week 2019.
Directed by Rose Nolan, Musical Direction by Pamela Christie
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Performers: Louise Keast and
Jessica Carrascalao Heard. Jess also took this fabulous photo!
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Barry Russell composer
Barry is a pianist/performer with the Cornelius Cardew Ensemble and 50p worth of the Pound Shop Boys. He works Europe wide as a freelance composer/animateur. As well as a long standing relationship with the BBC Philharmonic, he has directed education and community projects for the Royal Northern Sinfonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic, Philharmonische Orchester Hagen (Germany) and Holland Symfonia (Amsterdam). “Everything we do is Music” ‐ Cross‐curricular projects based on the music of John Cage was published in May 2016. His book of composition projects for GCSE The GCSE Composition Course is also published by Peters Edition. Recent performances as vocalist include Eight Songs for a Mad King (PMD) Facade (Walton) and Frankenstein!! (Gruber) and keyboard/percussion/electronics in concerts at Fylkingen in Stockholm. International performances of his works include Birthday Variations (choreographed) in New York, Hey Escher! in Adelaide (6,000 children performing in 12 concerts) and The Pub Operas and Supermarket Symphony on the Isle of Man with BBC Philharmonic musicians. His Pub Operas are published by Peters Edition. Other operas include The Ice Palace for primary schoolchildren and professional singers and The Wedding Ghost, a community opera for the Ryedale Festival. Snogging Harold Wilson, a street opera, was premiered indriving snow in November 2004 as part of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf commission).
Rose Nolan - Director
Rose Nolan is a founder of KinderOpera. The company was created to immerse children in the magic of opera.
After studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London and winning numerous awards, Rose toured through China with the 70 piece Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra. Companies she has worked with include Opera Australia, OzOpera, English Theatre Berlin, Berlin Hof Klang Festival, Opera Danube, Surrey Opera, Gertrude Opera, Buxton Festival Opera, Lyric Opera of Melbourne, Grange Park Opera, Melbourne Opera Company, Brandenburgisches Konzertorchester Eberswalde, Scottish Opera and Victorian Opera.
Roles performed include Old Woman and Mrs North Wind in The Enchanted Pig, Ann in To Hell and Back, Serena Joy in Handmaid's Tale, Bradamante in Alcina, Hata in The Bartered Bride, Gato in El Gato con Botas, Madam Flora in The Medium, Desideria in Saint of Bleeker Street, Secretary in The Consul, Flora in La Traviata, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Nancy in Albert Herring, Mercedes in Carmen, David in Saul, Tessa in The Gondoliers, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Sara in Roberto Devereux, Oreste in La belle Hélène, Clown and Juggler in Sid the Serpent, and Adalgisa in Norma.
Pamela Christie - Music Director
Since completing her piano studies at Melbourne University and Moscow Conservatory, Pamela has worked for many years as a repetiteur and coach in and around Melbourne. She is a repetiteur for the Opera Australia Schools Company, BK Opera and GBD Productions; and also fulfils numerous performance and production commitments as a freelance accompanist and musical director. Recent engagements include L’Elisir d’Amore; Rigoletto; La Voix Humaine; The Magic Flute; La Traviata; Madame Butterfly; Werther; Cenerentola; The Barber of Seville; Don Giovanni; Le Nozze di Figaro; Cosi fan Tutte and Carmen; as well as numerous art song and instrumental recitals and a hugely successful concert tour of China with the Melbourne Bach Choir and soloists. In her spare time she breeds warmblood horses; and applies her psychology and counselling qualifications in her holistic healing practice.
Louise Keast - Hare 1
Soprano Louise Keast is currently undertaking the Richard Divall Emerging Artist Programme with Melbourne Opera. She has recently returned from two months study in Sicily, where she performed principal roles in Carmen and Don Giovanni at the Mediterranean Opera Studio & Festival. In June 2019 she represented Australia at the Hans Gabor International Belvedere Singing Competition in Villach, Austria. Louise has recently won the 2019 Warrnambool Eisteddfod Aria Competition and received the Margreta Elkins Encouragement Award in the 2019 Bel Canto Award, Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation. She was a semi-finalist in the 2018 & 2019 Herald Sun Aria , and a finalist in the 2019 National Liederfest, Boroondara and Cowra Eisteddfod Aria Competitions. In 2018 she was a finalist in the Sydney Song Prize, awarded by the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation, as well as a studio artist with Gertrude Opera Studio.
Jessica Carrascalão Heard - Hare 2
Melbourne-based soprano Jessica Carrascalão Heard began singing in choirs at an early age, before completing a double degree in Arts and Music at Monash University. She has made her mark in concert and on stage around Victoria, and this year made her debut with Opera Australia in their 2019 Victorian Schools Tour as “Aunty Bartola/Basilia” in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. She has previously performed as “First Lady” in The Magic Flute, and both “Second Woman” and “Sorceress” in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, as well as several roles from the Gilbert and Sullivan canon.
Yima Lin - Dancer
Taiwan born dancer has studied classical, jazz and contemporary dance at various institutions including Northern College of Arts and Technology, Chunky Move and Taiwan‘s well known Fluxwave Dance Studio. She was a finalist for the prestigious Taiwan Grand Prix International Ballet Competition.
Barry is a pianist/performer with the Cornelius Cardew Ensemble and 50p worth of the Pound Shop Boys. He works Europe wide as a freelance composer/animateur. As well as a long standing relationship with the BBC Philharmonic, he has directed education and community projects for the Royal Northern Sinfonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic, Philharmonische Orchester Hagen (Germany) and Holland Symfonia (Amsterdam). “Everything we do is Music” ‐ Cross‐curricular projects based on the music of John Cage was published in May 2016. His book of composition projects for GCSE The GCSE Composition Course is also published by Peters Edition. Recent performances as vocalist include Eight Songs for a Mad King (PMD) Facade (Walton) and Frankenstein!! (Gruber) and keyboard/percussion/electronics in concerts at Fylkingen in Stockholm. International performances of his works include Birthday Variations (choreographed) in New York, Hey Escher! in Adelaide (6,000 children performing in 12 concerts) and The Pub Operas and Supermarket Symphony on the Isle of Man with BBC Philharmonic musicians. His Pub Operas are published by Peters Edition. Other operas include The Ice Palace for primary schoolchildren and professional singers and The Wedding Ghost, a community opera for the Ryedale Festival. Snogging Harold Wilson, a street opera, was premiered indriving snow in November 2004 as part of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf commission).
Rose Nolan - Director
Rose Nolan is a founder of KinderOpera. The company was created to immerse children in the magic of opera.
After studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London and winning numerous awards, Rose toured through China with the 70 piece Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra. Companies she has worked with include Opera Australia, OzOpera, English Theatre Berlin, Berlin Hof Klang Festival, Opera Danube, Surrey Opera, Gertrude Opera, Buxton Festival Opera, Lyric Opera of Melbourne, Grange Park Opera, Melbourne Opera Company, Brandenburgisches Konzertorchester Eberswalde, Scottish Opera and Victorian Opera.
Roles performed include Old Woman and Mrs North Wind in The Enchanted Pig, Ann in To Hell and Back, Serena Joy in Handmaid's Tale, Bradamante in Alcina, Hata in The Bartered Bride, Gato in El Gato con Botas, Madam Flora in The Medium, Desideria in Saint of Bleeker Street, Secretary in The Consul, Flora in La Traviata, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Nancy in Albert Herring, Mercedes in Carmen, David in Saul, Tessa in The Gondoliers, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Sara in Roberto Devereux, Oreste in La belle Hélène, Clown and Juggler in Sid the Serpent, and Adalgisa in Norma.
Pamela Christie - Music Director
Since completing her piano studies at Melbourne University and Moscow Conservatory, Pamela has worked for many years as a repetiteur and coach in and around Melbourne. She is a repetiteur for the Opera Australia Schools Company, BK Opera and GBD Productions; and also fulfils numerous performance and production commitments as a freelance accompanist and musical director. Recent engagements include L’Elisir d’Amore; Rigoletto; La Voix Humaine; The Magic Flute; La Traviata; Madame Butterfly; Werther; Cenerentola; The Barber of Seville; Don Giovanni; Le Nozze di Figaro; Cosi fan Tutte and Carmen; as well as numerous art song and instrumental recitals and a hugely successful concert tour of China with the Melbourne Bach Choir and soloists. In her spare time she breeds warmblood horses; and applies her psychology and counselling qualifications in her holistic healing practice.
Louise Keast - Hare 1
Soprano Louise Keast is currently undertaking the Richard Divall Emerging Artist Programme with Melbourne Opera. She has recently returned from two months study in Sicily, where she performed principal roles in Carmen and Don Giovanni at the Mediterranean Opera Studio & Festival. In June 2019 she represented Australia at the Hans Gabor International Belvedere Singing Competition in Villach, Austria. Louise has recently won the 2019 Warrnambool Eisteddfod Aria Competition and received the Margreta Elkins Encouragement Award in the 2019 Bel Canto Award, Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation. She was a semi-finalist in the 2018 & 2019 Herald Sun Aria , and a finalist in the 2019 National Liederfest, Boroondara and Cowra Eisteddfod Aria Competitions. In 2018 she was a finalist in the Sydney Song Prize, awarded by the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation, as well as a studio artist with Gertrude Opera Studio.
Jessica Carrascalão Heard - Hare 2
Melbourne-based soprano Jessica Carrascalão Heard began singing in choirs at an early age, before completing a double degree in Arts and Music at Monash University. She has made her mark in concert and on stage around Victoria, and this year made her debut with Opera Australia in their 2019 Victorian Schools Tour as “Aunty Bartola/Basilia” in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. She has previously performed as “First Lady” in The Magic Flute, and both “Second Woman” and “Sorceress” in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, as well as several roles from the Gilbert and Sullivan canon.
Yima Lin - Dancer
Taiwan born dancer has studied classical, jazz and contemporary dance at various institutions including Northern College of Arts and Technology, Chunky Move and Taiwan‘s well known Fluxwave Dance Studio. She was a finalist for the prestigious Taiwan Grand Prix International Ballet Competition.
