https://www.emmamuirsmith.com/home daily 0.75 2020-04-17 https://www.emmamuirsmith.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-08-29 https://www.emmamuirsmith.com/about daily 1.0 2022-08-29 https://www.emmamuirsmith.com/curriculumvitae daily 0.75 2023-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6e07696fd54b65baec46eb/1587270721429-5OWN6ZDVAWVP8GR3F1DI/PHOTO-2018-03-28-09-38-27.jpg Nitty Gritty - CV Upcoming/In Development Song Cycle | Writer | with composer Anne Cawrse Diary of a Madman | Librettist | An opera-ballet in one act, adapted from Nikolai Gogol Writing/Directing: A Christmas Carol | Director | Victorian Opera | Dec 2022 A festive (!) new opera by Anna Goldsworthy and Graeme Koehne Education Workshop | Director | Opera Australia | Aug 2022 Carnival of the Animals | Director Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 2022 The Selfish Giant (another season!) | Librettist with composer Simon Bruckard, Victorian Opera, Arts Centre Playhouse Melbourne 2022 La Juive (Halévy) | Assistant Director Dir. Constantine Costi (Olivier Py), Cond. Carlo Montanaro. Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House 2022 Atelier Opera Scenes | Director with Masters of Opera Students, Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, 2021 Die Freunde von Salamanka (Schubert) | Writer (adaptation)/Director Victorian Opera Youth Company, 2021 Performance of a Lifetime | Writer/Director COVID-19 vaccination social media campaign, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 2021 Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)| Writer/Director Physical theatre and puppetry production for children, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, cond. Nicholas Bochner, 2021 Listen to My Story (Van Konkelenberg) | Librettist Co-Opera Adelaide/Tour, 2021 The Selfish Giant (Bruckard) | Writer Victorian Opera, Gasworks Theatre 2019 Missing | Assistant/Tour Director National Youth Orchestra GB 2019, Dir. Karen Gillingham Alice Through the Opera Glass | Writer Victorian Opera, Playhouse Arts Centre Melbourne 2019 The Top of the Hill | Writer/Director RADA 2019 Surrogacy | Writer/Director RADA 2019 Cool Air (Ron Sandahl) | Director (staged reading) Old Red Lion Theatre, London, 2019 The Tempest (Shakespeare) | Director RADA, 2018 Terra Nulls | Writer/Director RADA, 2018 Singing Romeo (cover), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini), cond. Richard Mills, Victorian Opera, 2018 Giannetta, L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti), Amici in Musica, Netherlands, 2018 Flora, La Traviata (Verdi), dir. Sophie Gilpin, cond. Sam Evans, Hampstead Garden Opera, London, 2018 Opera Australia Chorus, La Boheme (Puccini), 2016 Opera Australia Chorus, The Pearlfishers (Bizet), 2016 Opera Australia Chorus, Luisa Miller (Verdi), 2016 Victorian Opera Chorus, Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), 2016 Victorian Opera Chorus, Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), 2016 Anna (cover), Die Sieben Todsünden (Weill), cond. Tahu Matheson, Victorian Opera/Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, 2015 Katja/Marianne/Commentator, Seven Deadly Sins (Various), cond. Tahu Matheson, Victorian Opera/Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, 2015 Enrichetta (cover), I Puritani (Bellini), Victorian Opera, 2015 Marianne (cover), The Riders (Ian Grandage), Victorian Opera, 2014. Nurse/Wife, Remembrance (Richard Mills), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra/Victorian Opera, 2015 Hänsel, Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck), cond. Fabian Russell, Victorian Opera, 2014 Alice, Alice’s Adventures in Operaland (Various), Victorian Opera, 2015 Victorian Opera Chorus, Norma (Bellini), 2014 Training Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, MA Text and Performance Victorian College of the Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, MMus Opera Performance Victorian College of the Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, BMus Vocal Performance, Hons Musicology Other Training Lighting workshop with Elliot Griggs, Young Vic, 2020. Introduction to Screenwriting, University of East Anglia, 2020 Viewpoints physical theatre with Jay Paul Skelton, 2018/2019 Frantic Assembly physical theatre artist workshop, 2019 Second City Improvisation, London, 2018 Extensive language and phonology/pronunciation training in German, French, Italian. Awards 2020 Green Room Award for Outstanding Musical Achievement: New Australian Opera The Selfish Giant City of Melbourne Quick Response Arts Grant, 2020 Australia Council for the Arts Career Development Grant, 2018 A E Floyd Memorial Travel Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2015 Harold Clarke and Elizabeth English Scholarship for Best Essay on a Musical Subject, University of Melbourne 2012 Global Mobility Travel Grant, University of Melbourne 2011