Tenor Shanul Sharma made his operatic debut in 2014 with Opera Australia as Don Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, followed by the Madman in Berg’s Wozzeck (2019) and the roles of Il Conte di Libenskof in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims and The Student in Reimann’s The Ghost Sonata, to critical acclaim in both Sydney and Melbourne. Shanul has also appeared in concert with the Opera Australia Orchestra for Mazda Opera in the Domain which was broadcast live on ABC Classic FM.
Shanul Sharma began 2025 by singing the Indian National Anthem, unaccompanied, in front of a sell-out crowd at the “Pink Test” at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Further performances this year will include the role of Almaviva (The Barber of Seville) for Opera Australia in both their Sydney and Melbourne seasons; Opera by the Lakes; and Arnold (Guillaume Tell) and the tenor solos in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle for Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.
Most recently Shanul has performed the roles of Tamino (The Magic Flute), Gandhi (Satyagraha), and Almaviva (The Barber of Seville) on the national tour, all for Opera Australia; the role of Cardinale Francesco Barberini in the world premiere of Richard Mills’ new opera, Galileo, for Victorian Opera Opera; Opera Queensland’s Bel Canto festival; Opera by the Lakes; and his Perth Festival debut in the festival’s opening night concert, Music of the Spheres. Shanul also returned to Germany to perform the role of Gandhi in an extended season of Satyagraha (Glass) with Hannover State Opera.
With other companies most notably Shanul has appeared as Il Conte di Libenskof for the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia in Moscow (2020 & 2019) and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy (2018); in the title role of Mozart’s Mitridate, Re di Ponto at Teatro Olimpico for Festival Vicenza in Lirica (Sept 2021); Almaviva for Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Italy (2018); and Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in Pavia, Italy (2017). Shanul also represented the Rossini Opera Festival at the prestigious LaVerdi Auditorium in Milan as the tenor soloist in Rossini’s Stabat Mater and at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo in 2018, and has performed the roles of Florville in Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino, the title role in Massenet’s Werther and the tenor soloist in Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah.
Shanul regularly appears in festivals and features at gala performances in Australia as well as in Italy and the United Kingdom, featuring most notably in Christopher Tin’s Grammy Award winning composition Calling All Dawns at the Llangollen Festival in Wales in 2017.
Shanul holds an MA in Advanced Vocal Studies from the Wales International Academy of Voice in Cardiff, UK and is a winner of the 2017 Canto Lirico discipline and the Rossini International Award from Pesaro, Italy. He remains the only artist to have won both the awards in the same calendar year. In 2019, he was awarded Broadway World Sydney’s Best Male Performer in an Opera for his performance as The Student in The Ghost Sonata for Opera Australia and was a part of the company’s Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Program from 2018-2021.