Soprano Siobhan Stagg is one of the most exceptional young artists to have emerged from Australia in recent years. After graduating from the University of Melbourne, Siobhan began her career in the Salzburger Festspiele’s Young Singers Project and as a soloist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Siobhan has sung the title role in Cendrillon for the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Pamina for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Sophie Der Rosenkavalier for the Opernhaus Zurich; Mélisande for Opera de Dijon and Australia's Victorian Opera (for which she received the Green Room Award for Best Female Lead in an Opera); Gilda, Blonde and Cordelia in Aribert Reimann’s Lear for the Hamburgische Staatsoper; Najade Ariadne auf Naxos for the Bayerische Staatsoper; Blonde for the Dutch National Opera; staged performances of Mozart’s Requiem at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Woglinde for the Deutsche Staatsoper and Morgana Alcina and Marzelline Fidelio for the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
In concert, Siobhan made her debut with the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No.4 with Kirill Karabits at the Philharmonie de Paris and returned with Sir Simon Rattle in a world premiere of Julian Anderson’s Exiles at the Barbican, London (a piece she revisits with Robin Ticciati and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin just months later). This season, Siobhan also added the role of Rosalinde Die Fledermaus to her repertoire in semi-staged performances with the Orchestre National de Lyon and Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and returned to Lyon in the same season for concerts of Strauss’ Vier lezte Lieder with Markus Stenz. Other notable concert performances this season include Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with Staatskapelle Berlin and Zubin Mehta; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona and Ravel’s Shéhérazade and Debussy’s Ariettes Oubliées with Norrköping Symphony and Karl Heinz Steffens.
Siobhan became a Director of the Melba Opera Trust Board in October 2020, their first scholarship alumna to be appointed, and the first International Director.
