Graduating with distinction from the Canberra School of Music, soprano Judith Dodsworth studied in London and Vienna, working with the Arnold Schönberg Chor, Concentus Vocalis Wien and NeuOper Wien. Returning to Australia, she completed a Master’s degree in performance at the University of Melbourne where she studied with Merlyn Quaife. Recent operatic roles include the title role and Mercedes in OzOpera’s Carmen, the lead soprano role in Opiume, a new chamber opera for the Singapore and Hong Kong Art Festivals, and the Wife in the Australian première of Michael Nyman’s The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, for Operalive. Oratorio performances include Handel’s Messiah, the Requiems of Mozart and Fauré, and Haydn’s Nelson Mass. Première performances of Australian works include Lindsay Brunsdon: I fell into a Cauldron, A Season in Hell, Nirmali Fenn: Some Words, Johanna Selleck: Becoming, Larry Sitsky: Bone of my Bones, and Calvin Bowman’s song cycles Now Touch the Air Softly and Beyond the Grass Tree Spears. Forthcoming engagements include Carmen with OzOpera, Anastasio in Vivaldi’s Giustino for Lyric Opera of Melbourne, Bach’s Cantata 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, and chamber music with Miscellany Ensemble.
