Teresa La Rocca Soprano

Teresa completed a drama and music degree at Adelaide University. Her early performance experience includes the roles of Fifi La Touche and Sophie for the Kidney Art Ensemble’s Diary of a Madman during the 1994 Barossa Music Festival. In 1995 Teresa was a finalist in the singer’s heat of the ABC’s Young Performers Award. That same year she won the State Opera Aria and was a finalist in the Robert Stolz Scholarship.

Teresa is a principal singer with Co*Opera. Her roles include Pamina and Queen of the Night in Magic Flute, Musetta and Mimi in La Boheme, Micaela in Carmen, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Violetta in La Traviata and Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte. She appears in the movie Shine and was a Young Artist with the State Opera of South Australia.

Her roles for SOSA include Norina in Don Pasquale, Parasha in Stravinsky’s Mavra, Yum Yum in The Mikado, Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte and the soprano role in the highly acclaimed Fire Requiem, Flamma Flamma for the Adelaide Festival. For the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Teresa has performed in their Symphony Under the Stars, A Viennese Concert, Handel’s Messiah and the soprano solo in Vaughan Williams’ Symphony Antarctica.

In 1998, Teresa was awarded several prizes, including second place in the Covent Garden Scholarship; she won both the prestigious Herald Sun Aria and the Metropolitan Opera Award. 2001 saw Teresa perform several concerts with the Surabaya Symphony Orchestra in Indonesia, including Handel’s Messiah.

She made her debut with Opera Australia singing Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and performed the role of Musetta for Oz Opera’s touring production of La Boheme. For the Bel Canto Opera Company, she sang Adina in The Elixir of Love and Norina in Don Pasquale and recently she sang highlights from Rigoletto with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in an Opera Gala.

In 2003, Teresa appeared as soloist with the Sydney Symphony in their Amore series of concerts, starred in Viva Vivaldi for Vision Events in Perth and returned to OzOpera as Musetta in La Boheme. 2004 saw Teresa sing Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and the Milliner in Der Rosenkavalier for Opera Australia. She also appeared as soloist with the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and performed major roles in Co*Opera’s productions of Pagliacci and The Impresario. Teresa will be a guest artist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Under the Stars in January, 2005 and will sing Micaela in OzOpera’s production of Carmen.