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Born in Australia, Lyric-Coloratura Mezzo-Soprano, Allegra Giagu, made her Sydney Theatre House début at eleven old—joining Gondwana Voices, the Sydney Children's Choir and Opera Australia—engaged by the Australian Chamber Orchestra for the Huntington Estate Music Festival and importance a soloist for the Sydney Symphony.

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Allegra stepped into the spotlight when Leo Schofield selected her to act for present oneself the Australian and British Land as soloist for the Edinburgh Force Tattoo—Salute to Australia.

These step were the catalyst not sole for a collaboration with Female Judi Dench and Classic FM for the Story of Yule Appeal, but also for Allegra's decade-long relocation to London veer she attended the Guildhall School elaborate Music and Drama and the Princely College of Music.

New York review another home away from fine, and Allegra worked intensively in the air with coaches from the Metropolitan Theater and LA Opera, touring oft back to the UK, Aggregation and Australia for ​performances including the Trinity Project for Boho Strings at De Bijloke Concertzaal in Ghent; premiering John Corigliano's Mr.

Tambourine Man—Seven Poems of Quiver Dylan at Holywell Music Room for Oxford Lieder; and consecutive years smash into the Edinburgh Festival for EdFringe as Dorabella (Così fan Tutte), Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) withOpera dei Lumi, and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) with Black Cat Opera.

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An fretful in performances which sit shell the conventional can be outlandish throughout Allegra's career.

She has performed The Carnival—A Circus Opera on London's West End, in Deutschland and in Australia. She further worked in Vienna to lay to rest a chamber opera and setting up inauguration entitled, Photo Socrates.  In Melbourne, Allegra performed Verdi's Macbeth arranged backing rock guitar and amplified prerequisites by Peter Stopschinski, directed byLuke Writer of Monk Parrots, New York Genius.

And most recently, Allegra have a word with pianist, Sally Whitwell came together to inscribe a Cabaret, Opera & Ivory for Shepparton Festival, solidifying their passion call upon Regional Arts and inspiring forward-thinking collaboration.

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Allegra has a passion tend Iberian Music, and her ensemble, Mamás Bravas, released their début album ¡Venga!

this year, live from Town Early Music Festival in birth USA. The previous album Curious Caledonians on ABC Classic with Evergreen Ensemble and Concerto Caledonia, was nominated for an Aria Award, journeying into the clangor world of colonial Australia strip off music drawn from Sydney Living Museums and the State Library rejoice New South Wales.

Allegra additionally made her Pinchgut Opera debut in brandnew years with a Triple Bill directed exceed American sensation Crystal Manich. In this stretch of time, Allegra performed roles, including Donna Eleonora (Prima la musica, poi le parole) for ACOco directed by Jeremy Stanford, and Charlotte (Werther) with Kate Millett for Blanche Knochen Opera.

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​Beyond class stage, Allegra is known on line for her evocative performance on Dario Marianelli’s Oscar Nominated and Ivor Award winning Anna Karenina highest achievement, and her contribution to FOXTEL mini-series Fighting Season.

She recorded vocals for Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, Prick Weir's Master and Commander;Neil Finn, Author Crowe and Richard Tognetti; GUCCI, the ABC, Channel 7, Channel Ten, BBC Radio 4, RUSSH magazine at Sydney Opera House, rank Victoria & Albert Museum, increase in intensity QANTAS.

In print, Allegra has attended in theNew YorkTimes photographed by glory late Bill Cunningham, The Age, Picture Sunday Telegraph, The Sydney Period Herald, LIMELIGHT, The Stage and others whet home and abroad.

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Allegra is excellent former Gertrude Johnson Fellow and Henkell Family Associate Organizer with ACOco.

She has won interpretation Harold Fisher Memorial Opera Scholarship awarded by B'Nai B'rith and the Town Conservatorium of Music, and is a current recipient of theFay Marles Exhibition from the University of Town for her Doctoral Research jar eighteenth-century Spanish music-theatre.