Bass baritone Adrian Tamburini has won the 2017 Opera Awards, taking home the YMF Australia Award worth $30,000 and the Armstrong-Martin Scholarship worth $4,500. Previous winners include Nicole Car, Jonathan Abernethy, Lorina Gore, Shane Lawrencev and José Carbo among others.

^{Adrian Tamburini}

Speaking to Limelight, Tamburini says that he hopes to use the Award “to study vocal technique with singing teacher Floriana Longo in Bologna, Italy and then work on repertoire with David Aronson and Sylvia Greenberg in Vienna. I have worked with each of them before when they visited Sydney. These lessons produced some great results and insights, which I hope to continue.”

The Opera Awards are open to professional Australian opera singers wishing to further their studies or careers overseas. Entrants must have performed at least two principal roles with a recognised professional opera company in the two years prior to judging. Each entrant is required to perform from their own selection of four arias and be interviewed about their proposed singing activities and/or study plan.

^{Adrian Tamburini sings Khan Konchak’s aria from Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince Igor at his first Opera Awards audition}

The 2017 Opera...