Meet our soloists - Michael Lampard Baritone

Michael has been a finalist in Placido Domingo's international Operalia competition subsequently appearing as Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte for the Rome Opera Festival. Appearances for Opera Australia include Schaunard in La Boheme, Dancairo and Morales in Carmen and Bartolo in The Barber Of Seville and roles in this year’s season of the Handa Opera On Sydney Harbour production of The Phantom Of The Opera.

Roles for Victorian Opera include Alidoro in La Cenerentola while for Melbourne Opera his performances include Schaunard in La Boheme, the Marquis in La Traviata, Biterolf in Tannhäuser, Di Luna in Il Trovatore, Fiorello and Ambrogio in The Barber Of Seville, Morales in Carmen, Zurga in The Pearlfishers, Killian in Der Freischütz and Kurwenal in Tristan & Isolde and roles for Gertrude Opera, Australian Contemporary Opera and Lyster Opera.

His concert appearances include being soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, at the 2023 Albury Chamber Music Festival, in the dramatised-song cycle, The Weight Of Light for the Canberra Street Theatre and in The Creation for the Sydney Philharmonia Choir in 2026.