Deborah Riedel [SEP] voice type
Deborah Riedel
Deborah Riedel (31 July 19588 January 2009) was an Australian operatic soprano. Hers is generally regarded as one of the greatest voices ever produced in Australia. She died of cancer at the height of her career, at the age of 50.
Riedel was born in Carlingford, New South Wales (in north-western Sydney). She gained a Diploma of Music Education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and taught for some time at Riverstone High School. She joined the chorus of Opera Australia (
Sam Moran, former member of The Wiggles
- James Morrison, trumpeter
- Kim Moyes, band member of The Presets, The Dissociatives and Silverchair
- Margaret Packham Hargrave, poet, writer
- Geoffrey Parsons, piano
- Geoffrey Payne, trumpet
- Deborah Riedel, voice
- Kathryn Selby, piano
- Larry Sitsky, composition and piano
- Rai Thistlethwayte, lead singer of Thirsty Merc
- Katia Tiutiunnik, composer
- Richard Tognetti, violin
- Esme Tombleson (1917–2010),