Sharon Prero

Soprano
 

Before moving to Queensland to study a Bachelor of Music Degree, Sharon was a flautist with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra having studied Flute and Voice at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music.
Winning the Dame Mabel Brookes Fellowship with Opera Foundation Australia, Sharon moved to Melbourne and performed the role of Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Mimi in La Bohème and Bertha in The Barber of Seville with the Victoria State Opera.
She has also appeared many times with State Opera of South Australia performing First Lady in The Magic Flute and Bertha in The Barber of Seville. In 1994, Sharon performed the role of Carlotta in the Sydney season of The Phantom of the Opera for Cameron Mackintosh.
Concert engagements include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony, Warana Festival’s Opera under the Stars with Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antarctica and Handel’s Messiah.
Recordings include soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Opera Australia Chorus and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra - released by ABC Classics in 2002.
Recently, she sang a programme of Handel with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and appeared as soprano soloist in Messiah and as Musetta in OzOpera’s touring production of La Boheme. In 2006, Sharon Prero will sing Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and cover The Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro and Alice Ford in Falstaff for Opera Australia.