Give Voice to 2027

Why this matters

Every year, Melbourne Opera's Richard Divall Program gives emerging Australian singers the training, mentorship and stage time to build a career in opera. Today, as part of Creative Australia's national AusArt Day, we're asking you to help fund their next season. Every donation goes directly toward getting our RDEAP artists on stage in 2027.

Real training, real stage time

• Financial assistance for singing lessons with their own teacher
• Opportunities to perform and understudy mainstage roles in a professional environment
• High-level coaching for roles performed and understudied, plus general repertoire
• Masterclasses with visiting artists, conductors and directors
• Language classes — Italian at the Italian Institute of Culture, German at the Goethe Institut Melbourne — plus lyric diction
• Role preparation and stagecraft with 16th Street Actors Studio

From rehearsal room to professional stage

Seven program singers have been selected as Victorian Opera Prizewinners, each receiving a year's contract with the company. Two have been awarded Deutsche Oper contract positions through the Opera Foundation. Others have gone on to the Rotary German Exchange Scholarship, the Lisa Gasteen Summer School, and professional work in Austria, Germany, England and Scotland.

Supported by

The Richard Divall Program is grateful for the support of the Sylvia Fisher Fund, the Ian Potter Foundation, Friends of Melbourne Opera, the Mietta Foundation, and Allan Myers AC and Maria Myers AC.