Mezzo-soprano Jessica O’Donoghue – Co-Artistic Director of The Song Company – and composer Jack Symonds present a convincing case that opera is still very much a living and evolving artform with undead, a compelling digital album featuring 11 world premiere recordings of works by Australian composers.

Symonds is Artistic Director of Sydney Chamber Opera and it is through their productions that O’Donoghue has brought the roles to life. Her versatility and beauty of tone are immediately apparent in two contrasting arias by Mary Finsterer, the haunting Your Dusk is Near from Biographica and the mock-Baroque Eternal City from Antarctica. O’Donoghue is studying composition and this album includes three extracts from her current project, Running Man which explores various facets of mental illness. Symonds is a sensitive accompanist and The Flood from his opera Gilgamesh presents a powerful contrast to the Finsterer pieces.

Other SCO regulars Andrée Greenwell, Huw Belling and Peggy Polias are...