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LIVING LOUD.

Australian Contemporary Opera Company exists to connect people; encouraging thinking and feeling by bringing stories of today and tomorrow of us and of others to the stage.

ACOCO has been boldly sharing stories through song since 2008, inviting curious minds to experience the best of contemporary opera while nurturing talent along the way.

 

We believe in the transformative power of modern operatic story-telling for artists and audiences alike, to surprise, delight, inspire, and sometimes even change hearts and minds.

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With a 15+ year history of challenging conventions and pushing boundaries, ACOCO has consistently staged innovative and experimental operas, premiering works by living composers.

 

We are dedicated to creating a sustainable and accessible platform for Australian contemporary operatic storytelling; and deeply committed to being a powerful voice for compelling stories that reflect and represent our diverse society.

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Come curious, leave changed.

COMING UP

Est. 2009
Re-envisaged 2020

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  • Performed live in UK & USA

  • Engaged online with 30 countries

  • 30+ Australian Premieres of international contemporary operas

  • Provided professional development for 72 international artists and creative leaders


 

  • Performed live in UK & USA

  • Engaged online with 30 countries

  • 30+ Australian Premieres of international contemporary operas

  • Provided professional development for 72 international artists and creative leaders


 

  • Performed live in UK & USA

  • Engaged online with 30 countries

  • 30+ Australian Premieres of international contemporary operas

  • Provided professional development for 72 international artists and creative leaders


 

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  • Pioneered a world-first, ten day online Australian Opera Festival

  • More than 200,000 views in 30 countries

  • Gallery: Hybrid live performance - video installation

  • Office: marathon performance

  • Site specific, outdoor and immersive productions

  • Collaborated with 12 international arts companies

  • Collaborated with 10 Australian arts organisations

  • Collaborated with 3 Australian education institutions

  • International New Work Partner: Monk Parrots USA

  • Cross art-form

  • Multi-generational

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Principal Education Partner 2025

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  • Embraced new works and ways of operatic storytelling

  • Founded the only Australian international opera & song festival

  • Push traditional production and musical boundaries

  • Champions of professional development and leadership for established and rising artists

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  • Founded during global financial crisis (2009)

  • Surivived global pandemic (2020-2022)

  • The only professional opera company in Australia to be led by an Australian female opera singer

  • Champion of diverse leadership in opera

  • Always ahead of the pack

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  • Performed live in UK & USA

  • Engaged online with 30 countries

  • 30+ Australian Premieres of international contemporary operas

  • Provided professional development for 72 international artists and creative leaders

  • 10 years (ongoing) partnership with Monk Parrots, NYC

  • Multiple internatonal partners

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

- A. A. Milne

Australian Contemporary Opera Company is based on Wurundjeri land in the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded lands. We are privileged to create and perform on Country where songs and stories have been sung for many thousands of years.

Australian Contemporary Opera Company pays our deep respects to their Elders, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

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