Victorian Opera 2014 - Into the Woods Programme

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JOHN DIEDRICH Narrator/Mysterious Man

ANTOINETTE HALLORAN Cinderella's Stepmother

DAVID HARRIS Baker

John began acting professionally at age ten when he appeared in Camelot for J.C.Williamson’s. Since then he has performed in over 40 plays and musicals including Curly in Oklahoma, London and Australia, Guido in Nine, Javert in Les Miserables, Mack Sennett in Mack and Mabel, Billy Flynn in Chicago, London and Australia, Emile de Beque in South Pacific and Benjamin Stone in Follies. As a writer he penned and performed in two successful musical reviews, Gershwin and The Twenties and All That Jazz. He has directed and produced ten musicals most notably Minnie's Boys, Australia and London, Nine, South Pacific and Titanic.

Antoinette Halloran is one of Australia’s most accomplished and best-loved sopranos. She performs regularly with all the major Australasian opera companies and symphony orchestras and appears frequently on national television and radio. Since 2010, Antoinette has sung the title role in The Merry Widow for Opera Queensland, Mimi in La bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus for Opera Australia, Micaela in Carmen for State Opera of South Australia, the world premiere of Midnight Son for Victorian Opera and CioCio-San for New Zealand Opera and Melbourne Opera.

David Harris has become one of Australia’s most acclaimed leading men, being awarded a Green Room Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Emmett in Legally Blonde and receiving Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Award nominations for his portrayals of Chris in Miss Saigon and Fiyero in Wicked. Other credits include; The Beast (Beauty & The Beast), Greg (Boy From Oz); Joe Hardy (Damn Yankees); John Brookes (Little Women); Perchik (Fiddler On The Roof alongside Topol); Malcolm (The Full Monty); and Jimmy Smith (Australian premiere of Thoroughly Modern Millie). David has toured the world with Michael Ball, Lea Salonga, and Stephen Schwartz, and has released two solo albums, 'Til The Night Is Gone and At This Stage. Creative & Cast / BIOGRAPHIES


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