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Ali McGregor

'More High C's than Sleaze..'

About Me



As a principal soprano for Opera Australia for over 5 years Ali McGregor won awards (Green Rooms) and sang with some of the worlds great singers and conductors. She developed a show called 'The Opera Burlesque' which boasts "More high C's than sleaze but just enough tease to please". Took it to Melbourne, Adelaide Fringe Festivals (with Dimity Shepherd, Antoinette Halloran, Ben Winkelman & Jason Bunn) - and sold out every show.

Ali joined the Cast of 'La Clique - A Sideshow Burlesque' in which she gets away with singing both Puccini and Radiohead in the same program. She has performed with the famous tent in Melbourne, Adelaide and Edinburgh Festival. A regular guest on ABC Australia's Spicks and Specks, Ali has also sung at the Melbourne Comedy Festival with Eddie Perfect, Martin Martini and the Bone Palace Orchestra & The Drowsy Drivers..
The Opera Burlesque now has a UK cast - Jacquline Tate, Catherine Friel join Ali and they will be making their second appearance at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival 20 - 27th August 2007. They will then be performing at various venues in the UK and Ireland - including Waterford Festival 28/29th September. See www.operaburlesque.com for more details.Here is some footage from the BBC's final Edinburgh Fringe round-up. A little Bon Jovi for you all...

And here are highlights from The Opera Burlesque at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2006
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/19/2006
Band Website: operaburlesque.com
Band Members: in Australia -Dimity Shepherd (mezzo soprano) Antoinette Halloran (soprano) Ben Winkelman (piano accordion, keyboard) Jason Bunn (viola)in UK -Jacqueline Tate (mezzo soprano) Catherine Friel (soprano) Phil McLeod (piano accordion, double bass) and occasionally, if we are very good and very lucky - Captain Frodo (Saw)
Influences: Yma Sumac, Sarah Vaughan, Renata Tebaldi, Jeff buckley, Gotye, Ben Folds, Theresa Cahill, Thom Yorke, Maria Callas, Theresa Stratas, Dita von Teese, ACDC, Bon Jovi
Sounds Like: Moments of operatic purity with dashes of Berliner Kabarett and lashings of Wagnerian inspired rock-opera...
Record Label: www.alimcgregor.com
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Variety Night - Last Days!

Hi All, Just a quick note to remind you that this is the last weekend of the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Highlights of our line up include:Wil Anderson, Mark Watson, Adam Hills, Selina Jenkins, Kurt Br...
Posted by Ali McGregor on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:47:00 PST

Lullabies for the Angkor Orphanage

Dear Friends, This Saturday 5th April at 5pm sees the return of the beautiful concert to raise money for the Angkor Orphanage in Cambodia. Last year we managed to raise over $3,000 with the Melbourne ...
Posted by Ali McGregor on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:44:00 PST

Summer soirees, Jazz Cigarettes & a very Specky Christmas...

Hello All (or whomever is actually reading this...),I haven't written for a while because, well I have been busy and was waiting for a good chunk of interesting to happen before I wrote again.Since my...
Posted by Ali McGregor on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:11:00 PST

Searching for Ali McGregor...

Many years ago at the dawn of the computing age (or at least when computers came to my university in Manchester) I decided to get my first email address. Of course, I tried to just get my name and tho...
Posted by Ali McGregor on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:21:00 PST

A Convict no more!

You know you have had a crazy few weeks when you arrive in Edinburgh for the fringe and are glad for the rest& You know the story: 5 hours in detention cell at Heathrow, flight back to Australia via ...
Posted by Ali McGregor on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:14:00 PST

Convict report...

Singing too-ra-li oo-ra-li ad-dy...So where was I? Ah yes, Bangkok.. So I finally got a little bit of a break. The Thai airways lady felt sorry for me and let me have a day room for no cost. Essential...
Posted by Ali McGregor on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:22:00 PST

Still Convicts...

Hello Myspace, I am writing this from hell. I have found out where and what hell actually is and I was suprised to find that it is spending a week flying long haul with nothing but The Librarian (has...
Posted by Ali McGregor on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:57:00 PST

Beat Magazine Article 'Comics in the Doghouse' April 25th 2007

The Spice of Life Article written for Beat Magazine 'Comics in the Doghouse' section Issue 1061, April 25th 2007In the past few years I have become increasingly enamoured by tales of Victorian Music H...
Posted by Ali McGregor on Tue, 01 May 2007 10:40:00 PST

Variety-Nite is far from shite-shite..

Dear peoples,Firstly let me thank those of you who came to the show in Adelaide and made yourselves known. It was lovely to meet some real life cyber friends (and not in a scary web dating kind of way...
Posted by Ali McGregor on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:10:00 PST

Butterfly a go-go...

Hello All, I keep neglecting this blog as I can't imagine who would want to read it but over 1700 of you have so I should keep writing I guess.. I do have to say (in case someone from myspace reads th...
Posted by Ali McGregor on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:54:00 PST