Shanul Sharma

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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.

January 2025
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"Shanul Sharma gives Gandhi vocally and dramatically noble inner stature, concentrated energy and respect for every creature. Peacefulness becomes an invincible weapon."

Michael Kaminski

"Shanul Sharma stood out as Gandhi, his mysterious charisma culminating in his upward Phrygian scale repeated over twenty times at the end. Thunderous applause."

Ute Schalz-Laurence

"The Indian-Australian tenor Shanul Sharma gives the character of Gandhi great charisma, even if he is only supposed to be "one of the crowd"...... The slightly baritone-coloured voice has an unoperatic light, almost ethereal timbre that surrounds the character with a mysterious aura, and that is perhaps the most convincing thing about this evening."

Stefan Schmöe

"Satyagraha is also the perfect vehicle for Indian-Australian tenor Shanul Sharma (Gandhi) with his superb purity of tone, lovely sound throughout the range and almost mesmeric stage presence……”

Barney Zwartz

"…….Indian-Australian tenor Shanul Sharma’s Gandhi was an achievement like few others. Vocally gleaming in quality, Sharma impressively navigated the role’s often lower written range with effortlessness. …….Sharma embodied the spirit of Gandhi with calm command. From the first few notes accompanied by pensive bass strings and with heartfelt humility, Sharma brought immediate attention to the man whose elevation to the echelon of greats he went on to stunningly depict in the work’s divine silken-threaded conclusion.………. Sharma’s was an astonishingly emotional performance that no doubt brought tears to more eyes than mine."

Paul Selar

“ . . . Shanul Sharma . . . lightning-fast and radiant high notes, which fill the theatre, ample technical and scenic confidence, with an important charisma. A true king . . . The authoritative posture, in addition to the penetrating gaze, makes the idea of the monarch.”

Cristina Miriam Chiaffoni

"Sharma has a voice that exemplifies the principles of bel canto – an ease throughout his much extended range, musical clarity in all fioritura and a melting command of morbidezza...."

Victoria Watson

"Particular mention must be made of tenor Shanul Sharma. The role of the Student is extraordinarily demanding, and he was flawless throughout, depicting the considerable emotional range throughout the vocal demands."

Peter Hurley

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