Antoinette Halloran

Antoinette Halloran is an Australian operatic soprano.

Antoinette Halloran grew up in the Melbourne suburbs of Rosanna and Deer Park. She attended Mac.Robertson Girls' High School and is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts where she won the Mabel Kent Scholarship and completed a Diploma of Arts (Voice); she has an Honours Degree in Music from the University of Melbourne. In 1993, she studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

In 1997 Halloran appeared in the Australian film True Love And Chaos. Halloran also appeared on the 2000 album Since I Left You by the Australian electronic music group The Avalanches. She played Gilda in Rigoletto – a perversion and Desdemona in Otello – a subversion for Theatreworks in their Verdi trilogy.

Early in her career, she performed Mimì in Puccini's La bohème for Oz Opera (the touring arm of Opera Australia); she would reprise that role several times in her career. In November 2002 she sang the title role in Jonathan Mills' The Ghost Wife at the Barbican Centre in London with Richard Gill conducting.

For Chamber Made Opera, Halloran has performed roles in Dominique Probst's Motherland of the Foreign Son and in Elena Kats-Chernin's Matricide – the Musical. In 1999, she sang Madam Olga in a national tour of Lehár's The Merry Widow, and the Mona Lisa for the Australian premiere of the musical Leonardo the Musical: A Portrait of Love. In 2000, Halloran was cast by the New York Producers of Forbidden Broadway to perform opposite Philip Gould in the Melbourne season. In 2002, she appeared as Sophie de Palma in the national touring production of Master Class.