
Age: 32
female
Amy is an Australian-born Opera singer currently performing as Christine Daaé in Andrew Loyd Webber’s, The Phantom of the Opera. Prior to her West End debut last September, Amy had performed internationally as a soloist with the London Handel, London Cello and the Perth Symphony Orchestras. She had also sung at iconic venues such as the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea and at Buckingham Palace for the Prince of Wales. Most recently she was the featured performer at the closing event of London Fashion week 2018. Amy graduated with honors from the Royal College of Music studying a Masters in Vocal Performance. Throughout her time at the RCM, she held a Basil Coleman Opera Scholarship and studied with world-renowned lyric soprano, Janis Kelly. Here she sang the title roles of Gontran in Chabrier’s Une éducation manquée with the RCM International Opera School and Clotilde in the London Handel Festivals production of Faramondo. Amy’s undergrad was completed at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts where she received a Bachelor of Music in Classical Voice in 2013 and Post-Graduate Diploma in Music in 2014 under the tutelage of Patricia Price. She was awarded the prestigious Barbara MacLeod Scholarship for Most Outstanding Female Classical Student in 2014 and also received the Michelle Robinson Award for most outstanding first-year recital in 2011. Title roles at WAAPA include Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel and Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. A diverse performer, Amy also has a unique history in rhythmic gymnastics and pole vaulting, winning gold medals at the Australian National Championships in both fields. She has also completed up to grade 7 in the AMEB exams for violin, under the teachings of Loretto Pell.

Amy Manford

Princess Aurora
for Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty (Live Action)
Suggested by lump0324

Born in the light of the dawn, the princess known as Aurora was blessed with the gifts of beauty and song, beloved by all who know her. However, because of a terrible cursed placed on her by the spiteful and ruthless fae Queen Maleficent, she is doomed to fall into a death like sleep before the sun sets on her 16th birthday. However, thanks to the efforts of a trio of fairies and a handsome young prince she had met in the woods, the wicked fae’s curse is well under way on being broken. In this version of the story Aurora is half fae and her mother was a fae princess who fell in love and married the crown prince in hopes that their kind unite. This angered her eldest sister, who happens to be Maleficent and she sought to take vengeance upon the two, so what better way than cursing their precious daughter. Also, in addition to Aurora’s curse the whole kingdom becomes engulfed in snow and everyone freezes when the princess falls asleep. Plus, Aurora and Phillip get to know each other more often…..yeah I don’t believe in love at first sight….love takes time.

