Lorina Gore soprano

Lorina was born in Australia and completed postgraduate voice studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. She has won several prestigious opera awards, including the Robert & Betty Saltzer Prize (Opera Foundation Australia 2004), 2nd prize in the Herald Sun Aria (2002 and 2004), the Lady Galleghan Scholarship for Voice, the Frank and Viola Tait Scholarship, the Phoebe Patrick Award, and first place in the Australian National Aria Competition. As winner of the Opera Foundation's Covent Garden Scholarship, Lorina attended the National Opera Studio in 2003/04, and is now working with Gerald Moore.

Alongside regular performances in concert and oratorio, Lorina's operatic roles include Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro, Belinda Dido & Aeneas, and also Queen of the Night, Pamina and Papagena Die Zauberflöte. In 2005 Lorina performed Giulia La Scala di Seta for Independent Opera, and Fiakermilli Arabella for Garsington Opera. Recent performances have included the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor for Iford Arts, and an extensive national tour of New Zealand singing Norina Don Pasquale for New Zealand Opera. In 2007 she will perform Blonde Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Sandrina L'infedeltà delusa for English Touring Opera, and will also start work as a full time principal artist with Opera Australia.