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The Marriage of Figaro

Opera first aria

Berlin Opera Academy

Tormey Woods performed in the title role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s comedic opera The Marriage of Figaro, on 13 July 2019 with the Berlin Opera Academy in the Theatre Im Delphi, a former silent movie theatre, in Berlin, Germany. They sang under the baton of Peter...

Singing with Maestro Ennio Morricone

Choeur Symphonique and Ennio Morricone

The Good, The Bad and The Buffet

I could feel goose bumps cover my arms as I heard the wave of applause of fifteen thousand people (Give or take an extra five thousand) as the orchestra took their seats.

I was about to step on stage of the Nimes Arena as a member...

Joining Opera Junior, Montpellier

Teenage Opera Singers

How About Tonight?

As Jerome Pillement continued talking, what he said seemed muffled, drowned out by the noise of my brain realizing that I’d succeeded.

I was in Opera Junior.

In a mix of exhilaration (and a small amount of outrage and not having been able to sing my second aria), I...

My First Opera Audition

Young Opera Singer

Welcome to the Opera

I could feel my heart beating in my chest as I went up that elevator. A man wearing an extremely colourful Hawaiian shirt stood in front of me, my mother and her flamboyantly pink hair was to my right and my father stood to my left. Then there was me.

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