Australian-Hungarian soprano Eden Shifroni is quickly establishing herself as one of Australia’s leading young singers, winning the 2024 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition and receiving its most prestigious award, the Marianne Mathy Scholarship.

Operatic highlights include Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Vienna Summer Music Festival, Musetta in La bohème and Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica at the Mediterranean Opera Festival in Sicily and Poppea for the Sydney Conservatorium and NIDA’s Australian premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s re-orchestration of Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea. Eden created the role of Ada Crossley in the opera Percy by Australians John Matthews and Margery Smith and originated the role of Jess in Track Works; a new site-specific pastiche opera at Sydney’s Mortuary Station.

Concert appearances include Vaughan-Williams’ Benedicte with Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Eric Zeisl’s Requiem Ebraico with the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Eden will make her Pinchgut Opera debut in 2025, appearing in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen.

Eden is the recipient of the Dame Nellie Melba Scholarship, Patrick & Vivian Gordon Award and Ryman Healthcare Opera Scholarship with Melba Opera Trust. In 2024 she received the JSRB Foundation Award at the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award Finals. She was awarded the audience prize and named overall winner of the Demant Dreikurs Scholarship Song Competition and was a finalist in the 2022 Elizabeth Todd Lieder Competition. Eden holds a Bachelor of Music (Classical Performance) and a Master of Music Studies (Opera Performance) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

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