Joshua Rowe

Josh has performed for opera companies around Australia; including Opera Queensland, Victorian Opera, State Opera South Australia. His many awards include the 2007 Queensland Arts Council Performing Arts Scholarship and Runner Up in the Dame Joan Sutherland Awards.

Josh has performed in many operas: including Romeo and Juliet, Lucia di Lammermoor, Nabucco, Turandot, The Magic Flute, Otello and Tosca for Opera Queensland and Richard Mills’ The Love of the Nightingale for Victorian Opera.

Josh made his role debut for State Opera SA as Krishna in Philip Glass’ Satyagraha in 2014 and has gone on to perform many roles for the company, including Wagner in Faust, the role of Wal in Boojum, Dr Falke in Die Fledermaus and the role of Roo in Richard Mills Summer of the Seventeenth Doll  in 2020.

On the concert platform Joshua has performed as soloist for numerous popular works: including Britten’s War Requiem, Vaughan William’s A Sea Symphony, Bach’s St John Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s The Creation and Handel’s Messiah to name a few.

Josh was a 2008 Opera Queensland Developing artist and a 2014 State Opera South Australia ‘James and Diana Ramsay Foundation Emerging Artist’.

This year Josh will be performing the role of Palfreyman in Richard Meale’s Voss for Victorian Opera and State Opera South Australia.