MOST (Music & Opera Singers Trust Limited)

08/10/2025

Opera Awards entries are closing on 17 October.

Are you ready to take the next step in your operatic journey? The Opera Awards are back, offering Australia’s most promising opera singers the chance to secure generous prizes and international career development opportunities.

Whether you're a returning applicant or applying for the first time, this is your chance to be recognised at a pivotal point in your career. Past winners have gone on to stellar international success — now it could be your turn.

Presented by Music & Opera Singers Trust (MOST), the Opera Awards are a private and prestigious opportunity to advance your professional journey — with only the winner publicly announced.

Entry details and how to enter in the comments below.

For professional Australian Opera singers

29/09/2025

🎭Get your applications in for the 2025 Opera Awards! Entries close 17 October

👉 All the details and how to enter:
https://operawards.org/how-to-enter/

29/09/2025

🎉 Proud moment! Check out this wonderful feature in Limelight on 2025 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition Mathy Winner Sidra Nissen, and our other amazing prize winners!

The 23-year-old Victorian mezzo-soprano takes home the prestigious Marianne Mathy Scholarship along with additional prizes.

29/07/2025

2025 Opera Awards entries are now open!

The Opera Awards are open to professional opera singers who have performed at least two principal roles with a recognised opera company since 2023. See if you are eligible to enter to win the $35,000 in prizes, aimed at supporting overseas study and your international career.

Click the link below for more info!

https://operawards.org/how-to-enter/

MOST has a long and rich history creating and managing elite instrumental and opera competitions, awards and scholarships both nationally and abroad. Over the years MOST® has offered individual awards, scholarships and grants to support musicians, conductors and repetiteurs.

24/06/2025

Entries are now open for the 2025 Opera Awards!

https://operawards.org/how-to-enter/

24/06/2025

Jeffrey Black sits down with ABC Classic's Tamara-Anna Cislowska to discuss his illustrious operatic career and early years as a young singer, most memorable experiences on stage, how to fight your inner critic, and finding love with the help of Schubert!

Listen to the interview below

Tamara-Anna Cislowska welcomes a star to share an hour of music and conversation at the keyboard.

29/05/2025

🎭 We’re thrilled to announce that entries for the 2025 Opera Awards open June 20!

Get ready to celebrate excellence in opera—start preparing your submissions now.
Mark your calendars

🔗 Check the link below for all the details on how to enter!

https://operawards.org/how-to-enter/

08/05/2025

Last week's performance at The Women’s Club for the Women in Music series was truly special. 💫 We are so excited to collaborate with The Women’s Club to celebrate women’s voices and stories through music.

A heartfelt thank you to Eden Shifroni and accompanist Sharolyn Kimmorley for the moving and powerful performance, mapping Edin's creative journey with grace and depth. 💜

17/03/2025

We are delighted to welcome Jeffrey Black as the 2025 National Adjudicator 🌟.

Jeffrey Black is an Australian International Baritone equally at home on the operatic stage, concert platform and in recital. Since making his International operatic debut at Glyndebourne in 1986, Jeffrey Black, born and educated in Brisbane, has performed in many of the prima cavalier lyric baritone roles in the major Opera Houses of the World.

To find out more, please visit www.aussing.org/participants-winners/adjudicators/

17/03/2025

DON'T MISS OUT! 😍🙌

The 2025 ASC Entries Close on the 7 April 2025. ⏰

Late Entries Close 9 April 2025, Fees will apply. 🗓

For more information, please visit https://aussing.org/how-to-enter/

13/03/2025