2004 Visiting Fellow (Performance)

Pamela Mildenhall (Session 2- 2004)

Pamela Mildenhall has performed as a soloist and with ensembles throughout Europe and Australia in concert halls such as the Musikverein (Vienna), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Schauspielhaus (Berlin), the Theatre des Champs Elysées (Paris), the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Town Hall.

A graduate in Arts (Music) at the Canberra School of Music, Pamela lectured in Voice at the Universität der Kunste "Mozarteum", Salzburg, Austria (1992 - 2003), Private Voice Studio, Vienna (1985 - present), University of Redlands, California, Salzburg Campus (1995 - present) and Webster University, Vienna Campus (2000 - present). She has also been a guest lecturer at the Canberra School of Music (1986) and at the University of Wollongong (1994, 1995 1998, 2000).

Pamela has received many awards including "Friends of the Canberra School of Music Prize" for most outstanding student (1981), "Three Cities' Scholarship" for further studies in Europe and Australian Opera Auditions Committee award for travel to Europe.

John Wregg (Session 1- 2004)

John Wregg is one of Australia's most experienced and versatile opera directors. A graduate in law at Melbourne University, he worked as an actor, theatre designer and director in Australia before spending two years in Italy in the film industry.
John has been artistic director of St Martin's Mobile Theatre, New South Wales Youth Theatre, Australian Theatre for Young People and Bondi Pavilion Theatre. He was also the founding director of the Lygon Street Festa in Melbourne, directing the first three (1978 - 1980) as well as the 1999 Lygon Street Festa.

From 1981-1993 he was a Resident Director with the Australian Opera, now Opera Australia. During this period he revived Adriana Lecouvreur, Madama Butterfly, Manon, Cosi fan Tutte, The Magic Flute, II Barbiere di Siviglia, Falstaff, La Traviata, La Bohème, Otello, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen, Macbeth, Turandot, Fidelio, La Forza del Destino, Lohengrin, La Fanciulla del West, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Lucia di Lammermoor and Un Ballo in Maschera.

In 1985 John was assistant director on Le Nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden and in 1986 he was awarded the Bayreuth Scholarship and the Wagner Society Scholarship. He was also artistic director of Sydney Metropolitan Opera, now Music Theatre Sydney, specialising in new music, from 1989 to 1997 and Founding Director of the School of Performing Arts, UCOL, Palmerston North in New Zealand (1998 to June 1999).

John has written for film, television and theatre. His work includes English translations for his own productions of Orpheus and Euridice and Carmen and surtitles for Medée and Il Forza del Destino for Opera Australia as well as libretti for new operas, most recently Woman Dreaming for Music Theatre Sydney. He was script editor on the film of Sydney Metropolitan Opera's Black River which received an AFI nomination for Best Screenplay and won the Grand Prix Opera Screen '93 Prize in Paris and is currently funded to write a film script about Peggy Glanville-Hicks with Kevin Lucas.

John is a collector of contemporary Australian and aboriginal art. Some pieces in his collection have been loaned to exhibitions both within Australia and overseas. In 2002 he curated an exhibition of aboriginal art for Palmsterston North Gallery in New Zealand and opened his own gallery dedicated to original designs for theatre, ballet, film and television. John also values for the Performing Arts Museum in Melbourne.
John's productions include Aida, I Masnadieri, The Bamboo Flute and Poe for the Australian Opera, Carmen and Madama Butterfly for Hunter Opera and Cosi fan Tutte and The Bartered Bride for Canberra School of Music. Productions for Sydney Metropolitan Opera include Black River, Bamboo Flute, Beach Dreaming, Foxy and Fahrenheit 451, Christina's World and Casanova Confined. He has also directed II Barbiere di Siviglia and Don Govanni for Wellington City Opera, a semi-staged concert version of Black River for Festival of the Dreaming, Closer Than Ever, a musical, for Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Mackay, the Journey to Nationhood segment of the Centennial Park Ceremony for the Centenary of Federation, a Christmas Show for Parramatta Riverside and Carmen and Tosca for Melbourne City Opera. He recently revived Lucia di Lammermoor, with Sumi Jo in the title role, for Opera Australia’s Summer Season and directed the Andrew Schultz cantata Journey to Horseshoe Bend for Sydney Symphony.

In 2004 his engagements include devising and directing a project entitled "Berzerk Baroque" as Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, directing a new production of La Forza del Destino for Canterbury Opera and reviving Un Ballo in Maschera for Opera Queensland

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