Brea Holland
Brea Holland is an Australian lyric soprano whose work is driven by a passion for storytelling. Drawing on opera, theatre, circus and movement, she creates performances that are emotionally engaging and physically expressive.
A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Brea has studied internationally in Florence and New York, and is currently a young artist with Pacific Opera. She is the 2026 recipient of the Deutsche Oper Opera Foundation Award. Her recent roles include Musetta (La bohème), Kát'a (Kát'a Kabanová), Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), and Mrs Giggly (Mrs Giggly's Magic School).
Amelia Bland
Amelia Bland is a versatile mezzo-soprano committed to thoughtful storytelling through music. She holds a Bachelor of Music (Classical Voice) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and is currently a young artist with Pacific Opera Studio. Originally from Orange, NSW, she was a recipient of Opera Australia's Regional Vocal Scholarship during her studies.
Her recent operatic repertoire includes Auntie (Peter Grimes), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), and Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte).
We met in first year at the Sydney Conservatorium, and we've been singing together ever since, six years now and counting. We clicked straight away, we saw opera the same way and wanted the same things from it. As we performed together more throughout uni, we started to learn how the other one sings, moves, tells a story, and somewhere along the way our styles just blended. It felt easy from early on.
After we graduated, life pulled us in different directions for a bit. Brea went off and spent a year performing with the circus, and we genuinely lost touch, until one night we bumped into each other in the green room of the same theatre, both there for completely different shows. Random. The next year we both ended up as young artists with Pacific Opera, and just picked up exactly where we left off, like no time had passed at all.
The idea for Lost in Translation actually came out of a very public moment earlier this year, when the man from the ping pong movie declared that no one cares about opera anymore. We'd just come off a Pacific Opera concert together and got talking about how we could actually bring new people into this art form, not water it down, just translate it. We love comedy, we love theatricality, and we still care deeply about the roots of this art form. We wanted a show that could hold all of that at once.
We now spend an unreasonable amount of time together. We're fairly sure people are sick of us.
