Stopera is a chamber opera company based in Canberra, the capital city of Australia. Stopera creates a vibrant and exciting range of opera and music theatre productions, festival events and concerts. The company’s diverse repertoire of full length and one-act operas includes eight Australian premieres, and extends from the Baroque delights of Handel to the cabaret idiom of Kurt Weill. Since its foundation in 1995, Stopera productions and artists have received nine Canberra Critics Circle Awards, including 2005 Canberra Times Artist of the Year award for the company’s Artistic Director, Vivienne Winther.
One of the most adventurous and stylish independent opera companies in the country.
Chris Boyd The Australian Financial Review 2005
Stopera ventures where larger companies generally dare not go. There are always risks in doing the unexpected and Stopera embraces them willingly.
Deborah Jones Arts Editor The Australian 1999
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2009:
13 SEPTEMBER 2PM | GYPSY PASSION A concert of Gypsy melodies from the repertoire for voice, piano and violin, with excerpts from favourite operas and operettas more>
9 AUGUST 2009 | 2PM | TARANTARA AND OOH LA LA! A delightful evening of witty and whimsical operetta, with music by Gilbert & Sullivan, Offenbach and Viennese masters, performed by artists from Stopera, the ACT’s award-winning opera company. more>
30 MAY 2009 | VOCI ITALIANE Celebrate Italy’s national day with a concert of Italian music for the voice. Featuring Soprano Rebecca Collins, Pianist Vivienne Winther and introducing an outstanding new opera talent - Tenor Lorenzo Rositano. 7PM Italian Cultural Centre, Franklin St, Forrest more>
2-4 APRIL 2009 | THE FROG PRINCE with soprano Rebecca Collins, baritone Paul Cambridge, tenor Ben Lattimore, narrator Veronica Merton and pianist Vivienne Winther. Presented by Tuggeranong Arts more>
2008:
22 AUGUST 2008 | A STOPERA REUNION featuring special guest artist Terence den Dulk
with soprano Rebecca Collins and pianist Vivienne Winther. Presented by Friends of Opera & Stopera more>
8 MARCH 2008 | TARANTARA AND OOH LA LA! A delightful evening of witty and whimsical operetta, featuring Stopera artists soprano Rebecca Collins, Christina Wilson, baritone Paul Cambridge and pianist Vivienne Winther. Sat 8 March Yass Music Club more>
OPERA BY THE LAKE 2008 AT ROND TERRACE | SUNDAY 17 FEBRUARY
The highlight of the Canberra National Multicultural Festival this year will be our second Opera by the lake concert. more>
OPERA BY THE LAKE 2007 AT ROND TERRACE | REVIEWS | PHOTOS |
Read about the highlight of the Canberra National Multicultural Festival which critics called, 'an extraordinary evening' and 'memorable concert'. more>
FEATURED ARTISTS
VIVIENNE WINTHER more >
CHRISTINA WILSON more>
REBECCA COLLINS more>
PAUL CAMBRIDGE more>
NIGREDO HOTEL | 2006 more>
‘Well conceived, thoughtfully designed, imaginatively staged and impressively performed’ THE CANBERRA TIMES 19/9/06
Stopera wishes to thank four photographers who have helped document and promote the work of Stopera. They are
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'pling [2] silas brown [3] holimage [4] greg marginson
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GYPSY PASSION 
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