The Opera Foundation For Young Australians has announced that former Parkes resident Aleisa Jelbart, is the recipient of the prestigious Rockend Berlin New Music Opera Award.
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Aleisa attended Parkes Public School and Parkes High School.
She was also captain of her peers at both schools.
She is now a Sydney-based costume and set designer.
The award enables an Australian artist engaged in some facet of opera to further expand their skills in Berlin.
For Aleisa, this allows her to continue developing her craft alongside some of the world’s most progressive theatre makers.
During her three month stay, Aleisa will work as an assistant designer on Petrushka/L’Enfant et les Sortilèges at the Komische Oper Berlin and will attend a number of opera productions in the city and throughout Germany.
The award follows Aleisa’s 2014/15 Hephzibah Tinter Fellowship for Production Design, which gave her the opportunity to work with Opera Australia, Sydney Dance Company and The Australian Ballet.
Over these two years, Aleisa designed costumes for a number of shows with Sydney Dance Company and assisted designers on Opera Australia’s Don Giovanni (2014) and The Marriage of Figaro (2015).
After completing her fellowship at the end of last year, Aleisa was asked to return to Sydney Dance Company to design costumes for Rafael Bonachela’s Lux Tenebris.
The work premiered in Sydney in February and will make it’s international debut in Frankfurt, Germany this September.
Aleisa is currently working on a number of projects at SDC and is the resident designer for Matriark Theatre.
Aleisa will fly out to Berlin at the end of October.