The current Melbourne Opera Orchestra has been developed into Melbourne Opera's third orchestra since its formation in 2003. The Orchestra leads an active concert life as well as playing in the opera pit.

 

 

Greg graduated with a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He studied under Carlo Felice Cillario and Geoffrey Arnold. He worked at Queensland Opera and Australian Opera and has run his own successful entrepreneurial business since 1979. As a conductor, Greg has an extensive operatic repertoire and he produced and conducted Melbourne Opera's inaugural season of La Traviata, The Pearl Fishers, and The Magic Flute, and has produced and conducted most of Melbourne Opera's productions since.

In 2004 he conducted La Traviata in Fiesole and returned to Rome for concerts later that year.

 

Greg is a founding director of Melbourne Opera. He also founded the Universal Theatre, the Comedy Club, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. As a theatrical producer his extensive credits range from Wogs out of Work to Beckett directs Beckett and Australian concert tours of many famous artists including Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Roger Woodward, Ivo Pogorelich, Sir George Martin and Elvis Costello.

 

Soprano: Emily Wang

Tenor: Boyd Owen

Baritone: Roger Howell

Concertmaster: Ben Spiers

Bamboo Flute Soloist: Li Nixia

 

Li Huanzhi: Spring Festival Overture
Johann Strauss Jr: Eljen a Magyar! Op. 332
Gioacchino Rossini: Largo al factotum della città from Il barbiere di Siviglia (Baritone)
Chi Liu: My Country
Verdi: La Donna e mobile, from Rigoletto (Tenor)
Giacomo Puccini: Un bel di, vedremo from Madama Butterfly (Soprano)
W. A. Mozart: La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni (Duo)
Johann Strauss Jr: Frühlingsstimmen Waltz, Op. 410
Lehar: Merry Widow - Vilja (Soprano)/Love Unspoken (Duet)
Zhou Chenglong: Chinese Bamboo-Flute Concerto Hanging Red Lantern
Verdi: Rigoletto Quartet

- Intermission -

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
Giacomo Puccini : Che gelida manina from La bohème (Tenor)
Giacomo Puccini: Mi chiamano Mimì from La bohème (Soprano)
Giacomo Puccini: Duo Act I No. 8 from La bohème (Duo)
LÜ Qiming: Red Flag Song
Johann Strauss Jr: An der Schonen Blauen Donau, Op. 314
Johann Strauss Jr: Trisch Trasch Polka
Georges Bizet: Falandole
Zheng Lu, Ma Hongye: Good News from Beijing
Verdi: Libiamo from La Traviata