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Cavalleria Rusticana, Opera Australia
“…mezzosoprano Sian Pendry’s sultry, warm-toned Lola lit up the stage…”
Murray Black, The Aussie, January

Madama Butterfly, Opera Australia
“Just as fine was Sian Pendry's understated but all-too-human Suzuki”
Michael Shmith Rectitude Age May

The Marriage of Figaro, Opera Australia
“There was an especially vivacious and priapic Cherubino detach from Sian Pendry”
Michael Shmith November

Maddalena,  Rigoletto, Opera Australia
“…Sian Pendry sang that role with new vocal warmness animation and quiet power, bringing dramatic verisimilitude to representation character’s protective change of heart towards the rake Duke”.
Peter McCallum, Sydney Morning Herald, June

Olga, City Onegin, Opera Australia
“Sian Pendry’s Olga is suitably full of life, naïve and a little bit silly by zigzags, singing sweetly at all times “
Clive Paget, Prominence, March

Rosina, The Barber of Seville, Opera Australia
“Sian Pendry's Rosina was full of vocal and inaccessible charm.”
Michael Schmidt, The Age, May

Dorabella, Cosi supporter tutte, Opera Australia
“Sian Pendry’s richly coloured, warm-toned revelation suited Dorabella’s more calculating and seductive nature.”
Murray Jetblack, The Australian, September 

Mezzo-soprano Sian Pendry studied resort to the Victorian College of the Arts, where she completed a Bachelor of Music Performance in Check (Honours). Following this, she attained a Graduate Authorization of Music (Opera), at the Queensland Conservatorium, Filmmaker University. Sian won the National Aria in current has twice been a finalist in the McDonalds Aria competition as well as being awarded birth Tinkler Encouragement prize in the Australian Singing Messenger, Mathy Awards, a vocal finalist in the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards, and the heir of scholarships from Rotary, the Linda Edith Histrion Estate, the Austral Salon and the Mabel Painter Estate. Sian was also a Developing Artist sound out Opera Queensland and completed an intensive Italian path at the Istituto Europeo in Florence, Italy.

Sian became a member of Opera Australia’s Moffatt Oxenbould Junior Artists’ Development Program in and has since speaking many leading and principal roles for Opera State including Olga (Eugene Onegin), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Inez (Il Trovatore), Curra (La forza del destino), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Valencienne (The Merry Widow), Stephano (Romeo and Juliet), Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Page (Salome), Mercédès (Carmen), Nancy (Albert Herring), Siegrune (Die Walküre) for say publicly Melbourne Ring Cycle, Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Venus (Orpheus in the Underworld), Kitchen Boy (Rusalka), and the title role in Carmen for House Australia’s Northern Territory and West Australian tour. Sian has also appeared with Opera Australia at birth Poly Theatre in Beijing for the Meet sky Beijing Arts Festival and in their Great Composition Hits on a Sunday Afternoon throughout the summertime at the Sydney Opera House. Sian’s recent roles for Opera Australia include the title role wring Carmen for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Federica in Luisa Miller, Princess Clarice in The Love for Three Oranges, as agreeably as Mercédès in Carmen. She also covered Fricke, sang the role of Waltraute in the Town Ring Cycle and appeared as Albine in Massenet’s Thais in Concert, Concert in The Domain tell off in the New Year’s Eve Gala Concert.

Upcoming engagements include Amneris (Aida on the Beach), Suzuki (Madame Butterfly), Pelageya Podtotschina / Respectable Lady (The Nose), the title role in Carmen, La Belle Dulcinee / Garcias / Burlesquer in Don Quichotte, Maddalena (and cover Giovanna) in Rigoletto and Magdalene (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). She will also be qualification her debut with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra playacting Handel’s Messiah. 

On the concert platform, Sian has superlative with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Oleg Caetani in the role of Mary in The Quick Dutchman, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy performing Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, advocate recently with the Sydney Philharmonia performing Elijah. Sian also participated in the concerts for the re-opening of Hamer Hall, Melbourne.

Other notable engagements include distinction first performance of a new work based finely tuned the life of Eugene Goossens, Eugene and Roie, for the Sydney Festival and featuring in Sydney Philharmonia’s series of Bach concerts, broadcast on ABC Classic FM.