Michael Petruccelli - Tenor

Renowned for his ‘pure, glowing tenor’, Michael Petruccelli is one of Australia’s emerging
operatic stars.
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Major appearances in 2016/2017 included Stephen Goldring (The Eighth Wonder) and
Pedro (Two Weddings, One Bride) for Opera Australia and Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor),
Beppe (Pagliacci) and The Minister (The Princess and the Pea) for Victorian Opera.

On the concert platform, Michael has taken the tenor solos in Schubert’s Missa Brevis in G
Major, Mozart’s Missa Brevis in D Major and Coronation Mass, Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de
Noël, Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai and Bach’s Magnificat and St. Matthew Passion.  
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His regular recital collaborations have included the series Night and Day (with associate
artist Elyane Laussade), Brahms’ Liebeslieder-Walzer with The Team of Pianists and
Britten’s The Heart of the Matter and Canticle III (‘Still Falls the Rain’) with Ensemble
Goldentree.
Formerly a Melba Opera Trust Scholar, Michael completed a Master of Music in Opera
Performance at the University of Melbourne. He was twice a finalist in the Lady Fairfax New
York Scholarship and was a winner of both the Richard Bonynge Study Scholarship and the
RJ and AF Hamer Opera Scholarship,
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In 2018, Michael Petruccelli returned to Opera Australia as Goro in their touring production
of Madama Butterfly before taking up a full-time young artist position with Oper Frankfurt.

2019 roles include Basilio/Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro for Oper Frankfurt, Pedro (Two
Weddings, One Bride) for Opera Australia and Aquillo (Farnace) for Pinchgut Opera.

In 2021/2022, Michael sang Almaviva in The Barber of Seville for West Australian Opera;
for Victorian Opera, he appeared in Parrawang Lifts the Sky, Le Mesurier in Voss for State
Opera of South Australia and Jason in Medée for Pinchgut Opera.

In 2023, he returns to
Victorian Opera in Galileo and Capriccio and to Pinchgut Opera for The Pleasures of
Versailles.

Breana Stillman -Singer

Breana Stillman is an Australian opera singer, who performs regularly in concerts
and festivals throughout Europe, Australia, the UK, and the US. Breana is
passionate about bringing opera to new audiences, and in 2019 founded the charity
OperAffinity, which uses music as a therapy to inspire and educate.

In its first year,
OperAffinity was able to work with 6,000 children in Kenya. Through her extensive
knowledge of the opera world, and her passion for Italy and keeping the joy of the art
form flourishing, Breana has founded a music festival in Italy that celebrates both the
joy of opera and classical music, and the beauty of the region in Italy.

Phoebe Briggs - Head of Music

BMus (University of Melbourne). Opera Australia music staff 2002 – 2012, Head of Music at
Victorian 
Opera since October 2012. For Victorian Opera, Phoebe has conducted Sunday in the Park with
George, Play of Herod, Sweeney Todd, Alice’s Adventures in OperaLand, Cendrillon, Four Saints in
Three Acts (Green Room nomination), The Sleeping Beauty (Green Room nomination), Lorelei, Black
Rider (Helpmann nomination, VO/Malthouse), A Little Night Music (Green Room nomination), Happy
End, A Christmas Carol, The Visitors. Other companies: Opera Australia, OzOpera, Stonnington Opera
in the Park, Opera Northwest, IFAC, Ambassador Group, Chamber Made Opera, Melbourne Theatre
Company. 
Phoebe has appeared in concert in Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Japan.

Daniel Felton - Baritone

Baritone Daniel Felton has over 20 years of experience in operatic performance, dance and
musical theatre. After performing in VCAA’s Top Class Concert of 2013, Daniel completed
his Bachelor of Music with Honours from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Since
then, he has worked with numerous opera companies in Australia and overseas, including
Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria, Lyric Opera of Melbourne, iOpera, Melbourne Opera,
Opera Australia, and Australian International Productions.
His chorus credits include Carmen, Fidelio, Götterdämmerung, La Traviata and the
Australian premier of Wagner’s Rienzi. In 2020, Daniel was heavily featured in the Yarra
Valley Opera Festival with the Australia Contemporary Opera Company and continued to be involved with several contemporary productions with them including Philip Glass &
Leonard Cohen’s The Book of Longing in 2022.
Some major roles to his name are ‘Papageno’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, ‘Schaunard’
from Puccini’s La Boheme. and ‘Jack Point’ in Sullivan’s Yeoman of the Guard.

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Most recently, Daniel played the role of Dr Falke in Savoy Opera Company’s production of Die Fledermaus by Johan Strauss II.
In 2023, Daniel took 2nd place on ‘The Talent’ on 3MBS Radio, and was also a finalist for the
99th Herald Sun Aria Competition where he was awarded runner-up. He also continues to
work as an artist with the Richard Divall Developing Artist Program whilst preparing for the
role of ‘Count Almaviva’ in their upcoming production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.