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Opera Australia
“It would be challenging not to love (and pity) Italian/Australian Rebecca Gulinello as the pious Micaëla. Even before her character is portrayed to us, we are given by her costuming, the 1950s bluebird cardigan and petticoated full skirt, the contrast to the rock rebels. Her clothes speak chastity, her eyes of innocence. Her gestures are demure. Her voice serenades us hopefully, dutifully and with longing for her betrothed. I'm convinced.”
Scoop, 26th Nov 2022
Bel Canto Award 2023
“It was a great honour,” the artist told SBS Italian.
“I feel very close to this music, not only because it’s about singing in my language... Italy is in my blood... The only Australian thing I have is the accent,” the singer jokes.
A rising star in opera, the young artist ended her debut year with a prestigious award that will take her to study in Italy.
Singing arias by Puccini, Mozart and Massenet, Italian-Australian soprano Rebecca Gulinello won the Bel Canto Award 2023, a prestigious award made available by the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation to support new opera talent in Australia.
Rebecca didn’t just get the podium but also the audience award, thanks to which she will be able to spend a study trip to Italy at the Georg Solti Accademia in Tuscany next year.”
SBS, 2nd January 2024
Bel Canto Award 2023
“Singing arias by Mozart, Cilea, Puccini and Massenet, the winner of the 13th Annual JSRB Bel Canto Award was the Melbourne soprano Rebecca Gulinello. In addition to her $30,000 prize and trophy, Gulinello also won the Audience Prize and a place in the 2024 Solti Accademia di Bel Canto Summer School in Tuscany.”
Limelight, 1st November 2023
Rebecca Gulinello Singing in giant theatre in Cockatoo Island
“Carmen is going to be a great show on Cockatoo Island and I'm really excited," Rebecca admits.
"They're doing a really cool production, inspired by rock 'n' roll, incorporating the environment and the industrial area. And the motorbike stunts too."
Opera Australia is completing one of the largest outdoor opera productions ever staged in Australia: George Bizet's Carmen on a giant stage on Cockatoo Island, which includes a motorcycle show prelude.
Italian-born soprano Rebecca Gulinello stars as Micaela in George Bizet's Carmen, which will open Opera Australia's new theatre on Cockatoo Island, the former NSW shipyard that was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.”
SBS, 30th October 2022
Rebecca Gulinello, the Ambassador of the Aeolian Islands
“The Australian soprano of Aeolian origins, Rebecca Gulinello, is the ambassador of the Aeolian Islands society and is ready to return to Lipari, where her grandparents were born.
They are Giuseppina Paino from Pianoconte and Giuseppe Barca from Varesana, villages on the main island. Rebecca Gulinello made her mark last year. In Australia she won several awards and also made her debut at the Sydney Opera in the role of Mimì, achieving great success. Now her return to the Aeolian Islands is once again awaited, where however she has already performed, in the church of Pianoconte, singing Ave Maria and receiving thunderous applause.”
Giornale di Sicilia, 25 April 2024
Opera singer Rebecca Gulinello ready for European career
“Australian-Italian soprano opera singer Rebecca Gulinello is set to relocate to Italy, and launch her European career.
Before she takes-off, Rebecca performs "Mi sono innamorato di te" for RN Breakfast. ”
ABC Listen, 7th April 2024
La bella voce e la grande bellezza
“Rebecca Gulinello nata con la passione per la lirica e il suo mondo, la Callas, l’applauso come un fiore, concerti alle Eolie, il lavoro sacro dell’artista...”
Notiziario delle Eolie, 25th March 2024
Carmen on cockatoo Island
First time opera; first time opera singer
“The mindset of a singer is also similar to that of a professional athlete. You must maintain a sense of rigour, routine, mental fortitude and humility that enables one the grace to ride the very highs and very lows that come with the journey of this career.”
The F, 10th March 2023