Coast Opera Australia will present its annual Salute to the ANZACS performance and family concert at Industree Group Stadium in Gosford on April 25 from 5pm.
It will be Coast Opera’s first event for the season and will feature an amazing assembly of artists.
Trumpeter for the official tribute will be Bruce Hellmers, a prolific musician who has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera Orchestra and the Philharmonia and the Opera Australia Orchestra.
Wil Sabin Dance Academy, the newest performing arts school to hit the Central Coast, will provide dancers and merging artist soprano Mia Cross will be one of the featured operatic artists.
She has starred in over 18 musicals on the Coast and won numerous competitions and awards under the tutelage of Yvette Masters at the Central Coast Conservatorium of Music.
Mia has placed first in the prestigious Sydney Eisteddfod twice and regularly performs in Youth In Performing Arts (YIPA).
She was the 2022 recipient of the Bob Pye Memorial Scholarship and also received the 2022 Central Coast Philharmonia’s Richard Newton Senior Vocal Scholarship.
Mia loves to perform, empowering her audience through storytelling, taking them on Also performing will be soprano Suzi Stengel and baritone Nicholas Geddes.
The principal artist will be mezzo-soprano Viktoria Bolonina, returning to the stage after undergoing surgery and chemotherapy for a brain tumour.
Bolonina was a finalist in The Voice Australia and is a regular performer at Carols in the Domain.
Bookings can be made at www.coastoperaaustralia.com.
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Coast Opera Australia