Meet Naomi Johns - West Australian Opera Cast

Naomi Johns is a Perth based Australian Soprano. She has worked professionally in Music Theatre and Opera around the country since finishing her studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She is known to demonstrate versatility and substance across both Lyric and Coloratura repertoire and recently has shown her ability to “capture the purity and pathos” of more serious lyric roles.

She was overjoyed to be the first female winner of the Bel Canto Award from The Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Opera foundation before studying extensively overseas and debuted the role of Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme in Canada before being called home to Perth.

Since her return to Australia, Naomi made her principal debut in 2020 with West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) for the Last Night at the Proms concert series and also made her West Australian Opera principal debut as Berta in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia which was closely followed by her role debut as Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello last year.

For Opera Australia, Naomi has covered the role of Madama Cortese in their production of Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims and has also made her principal debut with Opera Australia as the opera singer Carlotta Giudicelli in the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour production of Phantom of the Opera in 2022.