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​2021 G&S Opera Sydney Season

Dear G&S Opera Sydney Patrons-
This year we will be holding a series of smaller concerts to help us cope with the constantly changing state of things during the pandemic.  Please keep an eye on this page and/or our facebook page for updates.
OUR NEXT SHOW: 5 June 2021

Please join G&S Opera Sydney on Saturday, the 5th of June 8PM at the Ron Dyer Centre in North Sydney for a Concert Soirée. The evening is an opportunity for everyone to catch-up with old friends! The programme is a melange of stunning highlights from operetta & musical comedy presenting young and featured artists. Tickets are $15. A light supper is included. Book Now to help us plan catering for the event! See you soon!

​Event by Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Sydney
Ron Dyer Centre - 42 Ridge St, North Sydney NSW 2060
Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 20:00 UTC+10
Tickets www.trybooking.com/BREEB
 

The Sorcerer (tentatively rescheduled for 2021 Season)

 
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The Sorcerer Production Team

Stage Director - Dean Sinclair
Musical Director - ​Rod Mounjed
Associate Director & Choreographer - Sarah Pearce
Costumier -  Sandra Tutt
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Roles
  • Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre, an Elderly Baronet (bass-baritone)
  • Alexis, of the Grenadier Guards, his son (tenor)
  • Dr Daly, Vicar of Ploverleigh (lyric baritone)
  • Notary (bass)
  • John Wellington Wells, of J. W. Wells & Co., Family Sorcerers (comic baritone)
  • Lady Sangazure, a Lady of Ancient Lineage (contralto)
  • Aline, her Daughter, betrothed to Alexis (soprano)
  • Mrs. Partlet, a Pew Opener (contralto)
  • Constance, her Daughter (mezzo-soprano or soprano)
  • Hercules (speaking role)
  • Chorus of villagers

Dean Sinclair, Stage Director

This year, Dean takes on a new challenge with G&S Opera Sydney as the Stage Director for our 2018 production of The Ghosts of Ruddigore!

​Operetta (G&S in particular) features extensively in Dean’s musical theatre experience. He loves the G&S comedic roles, having played Reginald Bunthorne in Patience, Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore, Ko Ko in The Mikado, The Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore – and most recently The Duke of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers for Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Sydney.

Amongst other roles, Dean has sung Cyril in Princess Ida, Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore, Dr Daly in The Sorcerer, Grosvenor in Patience, Jack Point in The Yeomen of the Guard, & Luiz in The Gondoliers. His further light opera outings have included roles in such musical gems as The Arcadians, Showboat, The Gypsy Baron, and The Count of Luxembourg.

Dean particularly loves singing the beautiful songs of Ivor Novello, Franz Lehar, Jerome Kern, & Noel Coward, many of which he’s rendered in concert performances across Sydney.

Dean is currently President of Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Sydney. 

Rod Mounjed, Musical Director

Rod has been Musical Directing since 1985, when he first designed the music for the play Cloud Nine at the Seymour Centre. Recent Musical Design in 2002-4 has included The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare by the Sea). Since 2000 Rod has worked as a conductor with Symphony Australia’s conducting program and has worked interstate with different ensembles and orchestras from each of the major symphony orchestras around Australia, specializing in the works of Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Grieg and Beethoven.

Rod has worked with the Savoy Arts Company since 1991 (Iolanthe, Princess Ida (twice) Pirates of Penzance, Yeomen of the Guard, HMS Pinafore and The Gondoliers). With Regals Musical Society has conducted Broadway Pirates of Penzance, Pippin, Oklahoma, Chess, Annie, Me & My Girl. His two shows with the Rockdale Musical Society have been Anything Goes and Mame. He has conducted Ruddigore for Rockdale Opera in 2011.

For the past three decades he has been the resident Musical Director at Lugar Brae Players and has participated in HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, South Pacific, Oklahoma, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Me & My Girl, The Pajama Game, Guys and Dolls, Oliver, Annie Get Your Gun, Sound of Music. He volunteered to help conduct Yeoman of the Guard and Iolanthe for the G & S Singfest (Glen Street Theatre and Zenith Theatre).

As a pianist he has recorded for SMP classics, works by Mendelssohn (Songs without Words), Beethoven (Late Piano Sonatas Op.109, 110 & 111), and “An Evening with G & S” for violin and piano.
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Sarah Pearce, Associate Director & Choreographer

Sarah Pearce will be returning for a second year with us as the Associate Director & Choreography for our 2018 production of The Ghosts of Ruddigore. Sarah was our choreographer last year for The Pirates of Penzance.

​Sarah has been dancing and performing since the age of three. Originally from South Australia, she studied dance at many different schools, giving her a vast vocabulary of dance styles and choreographic techniques. 

She began exploring musical theatre choreography when she was 18 as the assistant choreographer of High School Musical 2 with STAYG25, whilst also performing the role of Martha in the show.  After this she took on the role of choreographer for The South Coast Choral and Arts Society’s production of the Wizard Of Oz. 

In 2015 she moved to Sydney to study a bachelor of music, majoring in music theatre at the Australian Institute of Music. In 2016 she was assistant choreographer for their production of Chicago, whilst also performing the roles of Mary Sunshine and Liz.  She will be returning as assistant choreographer to work on their 2017 production of The Pyjama Game.

She is excited to be choreographing The Pirates of Penzance for The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Sydney!