Paul O’Neill

Paul O’Neill was born in Australia. The young tenor studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts where he completed a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Classical). In 2005 Paul was awarded Opera Foundation Australia’s Covent Garden National Opera Studio Scholarship and subsequently graduated from the National Opera Studio in 2006. After studying at the Cardiff International Academy of Voice with Dennis O’Neill he has joined the studio of the Staatsoper Berlin in November 2007 and in September 2009 he joined the ensemble of the Staatsoper Berlin.

His most recent engagements include Elvino in La Sonnambula with Oper Graz, Rodolfo in La bohème in Halle, Seemann and Hirt in Tristan und Isolde with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and Steven Sloane, opera arias with the BBC Orchestra in London and concerts with The Hague Philharmonic orchestra with Neeme Jaervi. With the Berliner Philharmoniker he performed in Mendelssohn’s Elias (with Seiji Ozawa) and in Haydn’s Orlando Paladino (with Nikolaus Harnoncourt).
 
Upcoming engagements include, next to his roles at the Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin; Il Duca di Mantua (Rigoletto) at the Opera Australia in Sydney, Turridu (Cavalleria Rusticana) in Bielefeld, Masaniello (La muette de Portici) in Dessau as well as the role of Isepo in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda at the Zaterdag Matinee in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.