THE RICHARD DIVALL PROGRAM
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News about programme members present and past.
2022 - 2023
Eleanor Greenwood won the 2023 Opera Award.
Stephen Marsh won the 2023 Deutsche Oper Berlin Award.
Chloe Harris won the Lady Galleghan London Award.
Naomi Flatman won the 2022 Acclaim Award and participated in the OpernFest Prague in June/July 2023.
Amelia Wawrzon has graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, London in 2023 and won the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Prize in the 2022 Herald Sun Aria Competition.
Jordan Kahler received the Richard-Wagner-Stipendienstiftung with the support of the Victorian Wagner Society
Alastair Cooper-Golec was nominated for a Green Room Award as outstanding supporting artist for one of his role in Melbourne Opera’s Lucrezia Borgia. He, along with 2022 developing artist Syrah Torii shared the Victorian Opera Emerging Artist Prize.
Olivia Federow-Yemm won the Rotary New Generation Exchange scholarship in 2023.
Shania Eliassen won the 2022 Welsh Male Choir Singer of the Year.
2022 Michael Stubbs and Malcolm Roberts Opera Prize
Associate Artists Michael Dimovksi and Shakira Dugan are joint winners of the 2022 Michael Stubbs and Malcolm Roberts Opera Prize
2020 – 2021
2021 Herald Sun Aria
Four of the six finalists in the prestigious Herald Sun Aria 2021 were from our programme, with current programme members Naomi Flatman winning the overall competition. Alastair Cooper-Golec winning the John Fulford Prize. Associate artists Jane Magao won the Richard Divall Award and Darcy Carroll was a finalist.
2021 the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Award Bel Canto Award
Amelia Wawrzon has won a 2021 the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Award Bel Canto Award.
2021 Australian Liederfest Award
Naomi Flatman won the 2021 Australian Liederfest Award with Alastair Cooper-Golec was runner up.








