JACQUELINE DARK

After completing a Bachelor of Physics degree, Jacqueline Dark attended the Opera Studio at the Victorian College Of The Arts, graduating in 1996 with First Class Honours.

Her performance experience encompasses opera, music theatre, cabaret, theatre restaurant and concert performances, and includes the roles of Carmen and Mercedes (Carmen), Dorabella (Così Fan Tutte), the title role and Tisbe in Cenerentola (for which she won for a Green Room Award), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Rosmira (Partenope), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Second and Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Maurya (Riders To The Sea), Mrs Herring (Albert Herring), the title role in Iolanthe, Maddalena (Rigoletto), Emilia (Otello), Lucilla (La scala di seta), Marianna(Il Signor Bruschino), Flora (La Traviata), Annina (Der Rosenkavalier), Pitti-Sing/Katisha (The Mikado) and Mary (Der Fliegender Holländer).

In 2001, Jacqui was awarded the Vienna State Opera Award by Opera Foundation Australia which led to her performing and covering many roles for the Wiener Staatsoper including Giovanna (Rigoletto), Grimgerde (Die Walküre), Il Pastore (Tosca), Mercedes (Carmen), Annina (La Traviata), Ines (Il trovatore), La Dama (Macbeth) and Countess Ceprano (Rigoletto).

She was a finalist in the Herald-Sun Aria, the Covent Garden National Opera Studio Scholarship, the Sydney McDonald’s Operatic Aria and the Metropolitan Opera Auditions.  She has appeared as a soloist with many organisations including the Melbourne Chorale, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, The Australian National Academy of Music, The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

Recent performances have included the role of Dorabella in Victorian Opera’s inaugural production of Così Fan Tutte, Suzuki for Opera Queensland and Marcellina, Emilia, Maddelena, Donna Elvira, Katisha and Rosmira for Opera Australia.  In 2009, Jacqui sang The Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos for Victorian Opera and, in 2011, took the alto solos in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis for Sydney Philharmonia.  She also appears as a leading artist in many of Opera Australia’s internationally released CDs and DVDs – Le nozze di Figaro, Der Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni and The Mikado.

In 2012, Jacqueline Dark sings Herodias (Salome), Flora and Marcellina for Opera Australia.   She will also appear as alto soloist in West Australian Symphony Orchestra’s performances of Stravinsky’s Les Noces.

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