Patron: Emma Matthews AM
wa opera lovers resident artists
WA Opera Lovers is thrilled to showcase our amazing resident artists for 2025 and 2026! These gifted young individuals represent the future of classical music, enchanting audiences at events throughout the year. We are fortunate to have them-read more below!
2025-26
Soprano
Emily Davis
Emily Davis is a 23-year-old soprano and Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) 2023 graduate. Recent roles include Adelaide from Dove’s The Enchanted Pig, and Dorabella from Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. She has been a soloist in choral works such as Bach's St Matthew Passion and Handel’s Messiah
Emily was the 2023 Recipient for the Dame Mary Gilmore Award for the most promising graduating female classical voice student at WAAPA and was runner up in the 2023 Richard Gill Award. She was a finalist in the 2022 Taryn Fiebig award, the 2022 and 2023 Opera Lover’s Aria competition, and placed first in the 2023 Fremantle Eisteddfod Open Lieder section, as well as first in the 2025 Open sacred and Open Musical Theatre sections. Emily was also named overall best senior vocalist and best overall performer at the 2025 Fremantle Eisteddfod.
She currently sings with WA Opera Lovers as a resident artist and enjoys working as a freelance musician while studying her Honours in Classical Voice at UWA.
She enjoys singing Lieder, and other music from the German repertoire such as Bach. Emily started her musical journey at West Leederville Primary School playing cello, then later, Churchlands Senior High School in the GATE music program on a vocal scholarship, most recently completing her bachelor’s degree in Classical Voice at WAAPA.
Soprano
Beth Redwood
Beth Redwood is a Perth born soprano and graduate from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) where she studied a Bachelor of Music majoring in Classical Voice. In 2025, Beth furthered her studies at Lyric Opera Studio Weimar (Germany) where she portrayed Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro.
Beth’s recent operatic highlights include Adina in L’elisir d’amore, The Countess from Le Nozze di Figaro, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel and Papagena from Die Zauberflöte. Throughout her time at university, Beth also sang in the ensembles of Orpheus in the Underworld and Pirates of Penzance.
Beth’s accolades include Most Outstanding Senior Vocalist in the North of Perth Music Festival (2022) and Overall Best Vocalist in the Fremantle Eisteddfod (2024). She also had the great honour to be a Young Artist with Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra (2024) and with Perth Symphonic Chorus (2025), as well as a Resident Artist with Opera Lovers WA (2024-2026). Beth regularly performs with several professional ensembles including Perth Symphonic Chorus and OpusWA, the latter of which she has been an active Board Member of since 2020. With these groups she has performed in a soloist role in many productions including Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, Bach’s Wachet Auf, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Faure’s Requiem, many Opera Galas and countless performances of Handel’s Messiah. In 2024, Beth debuted with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in the chorus of Mahler’s 8th Symphony. On a number of occasions, she has toured to regional areas of Western Australia with these groups to help bring classical music to more remote areas.
Tenor
Noah Humich
Noah Humich is a Perth-based tenor and director, and a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), where he performed roles including Samuel in The Pirates of Penzance and the Witch in Hansel and Gretel.
Since completing his studies, he has appeared with West Australian Opera (Enchanted Encounters, The Pirates of Penzance, Madame Butterfly, Biggest Baddest Wolf), Freeze Frame Opera (Adriana Lecouvreur, Don Giovanni), Western Sky Projects (She Loves Me), and Perth Symphonic Chorus (Trial by Jury). He is a core member of Perth Opera Voices who specialise in regional touring of WA.
Highlights as a soloist include performances of Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Perth Symphonic Chorus. In 2023, he directed and produced his first independent production, Enchanted Encounters – Songs of the Supernatural, which was later presented by West Australian Opera in 2024. In 2025, Enchanted Encounters presented two runs of a new instalment – Songs of Van Gogh.
Noah serves on the boards of ArtRage (producers of Perth Fringe World Festival and Rooftop Movies) and Opera Lovers WA, where he is also a resident artist for 2024–2025. He is a 2025 Young Artist with Perth Symphonic Chorus and regularly serves as cantor at St Patrick’s Basilica and St Paul’s Catholic Church.
Tenor
Ciaran McChord
After completing university degrees in both Biomedicine and Music, Scottish-Australian Operatic Tenor Ciaran McChord is currently undertaking a Juris Doctor master's degree. Under the OpusWA artistic director, Mark Coughlan, Ciaran has performed as a tenor soloist in concert works such as Mozart Requiem, Messiah, and Matthew's Passion, and had his debut operatic role as ‘Nemorino’ in the production of L’elisir d’amore in February 2024. Also in 2024, Ciaran performed the role of ‘First Sailor’ in the West Australian Opera production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and starred as a soloist at the St George’s College annual Christmas in the Quad concert. Ciaran is a current resident artist for WA Opera Lovers
Baritone
Sam Claxton
Pianist
Shin Hyun-Jee
