JOANNA COLE
as Mary MacKillop
Joanna Cole has over 20 years experience as an opera singer both in Australia and internationally with her main roles including Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Australia) Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto (OA) and Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme (Canterbury Opera, NZ). Now based in Melbourne, Ms Cole grew up in Sydney and was a student at two schools established by Mary MacKillop's sisters - St Luke's Revesby and Mount St Joseph College, Milperra.
Joanna has sung Handel's Messiah in Oxford, UK and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Sir Charles Mackerras. She appears regularly as a soloist with all the major Australian symphony orchestras for which her repertoire includes Poulenc's Gloria, Villa Lobos' Bacchianas Brasilieras, Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, Ravel's Scheherazade, Orff's Carmina Burana, Faure's Requiem, Szymanowski's Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs, Mahler's Symphonies, No 4 & 8, Mozart's Requiem, Vespers, Exsultate Jubilate, Regina Coeli, Handel's Ode for St Cecilia's Day and Messiah. She has also performed Elijah with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
Joanna Cole is no stranger to playing strong iconic Australian women having previously taken on the demanding role of Lindy Chamberlain in the 2002 Opera Australia world premiere production of Lindy.
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Donald McDonald
as Alexander MacKillop
Faye Anderson
as Flora MacKillop
Anthony Mason
as Fr Donald MacKillop
Meg Griffin
as Annie MacKillop
Piper Hillyer
as Alexandrina MacKillop
Victoria Vlahadmis
as Maggie MacKillop
Harry Alexander
as John MacKillop
Elen Attard
as Peter MacKillop
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Paul McLeod
as Fr Tenison Woods
Tony Girdler
as Fr Charles Horan
Fr James McCarthy
as Bishop Sheil
Fr Bill Milsted
as Pope Pius IX
Eugene Raggio
as Hugh Fagan
Jim Weeks
as John Dunmore Lang
Rioghnach McCaughan
as Sr Teresa
Stephanie Cassar
as Mary MacKillop's Understudy
