Margaret Schindler Soprano

In 1983 Lyric Soprano Margaret Schindler was awarded the German Operatic Award through the Opera Foundation of Australia, which enabled her to become a member of the Opera Studio attached to the Cologne State Opera.

Margaret sang with the Australian Opera for two years and appeared as soloist throughout the country.

Past engagements include: First Lady in The Magic Flute with Opera Queensland, Britten’s War Requiem in Newcastle, concert performance of Wagner’s Parsifal at the Brisbane Biennial, principal role in Graham Koehne’s Love Burns with Opera Queensland, CD recording of Dead Songs by Andrew Schultz for Perihelion, and many performances of Handel’s Messiah.

Also notable are her performances of Handel’s Solomon with the RIAS Kammerchor and The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Rameau’s Anacreaon, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Les Incas de Perou with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’ete, Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne, and Haydn’s Creation with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

Margaret is a Lecturer in Voice at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

Piece of music Margaret most enjoys listening to:
Richard Strauss, Four Last Songs