Beyond the Cabaret

ALI MCGREGOR
www.alimcgregor.com

Ali McGregor traverses the worlds of opera and popular culture like no other, either as an award winning principal Soprano with Opera Australia; as a regular cabaret performer in The Famous Spiegeltent around the world; or as a regular guest on ABC TV's 'Spicks & Specks'.

As an actress her most recent role was Polly Peachum/Grace Madden in the 'Convict's Opera' for The Sydney Theatre Company and Out of Joint directed by Max Stafford Clarke.

'...I don't think there was a woman in the audience who didn't want to be her, nor a man who didn't just want her.' Independant weekly


In the late 19th Century, a group of chorus girls used to creep out of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, dash across to the east end and perform their arias in their corsets and drawers for the vaudeville loving public.

in 2005 Ali was inspired by these ladies of the operatic night to do the same. She crept out of Opera Australia's production of 'Manon' and into The Famous Spiegeltent creating the very first Opera Burlesque.

She has now been firmly bitten with the cabaret bug and although she still regulary sings operaticaly around the world, her reputation as a unique interperator of mordern day pop and rock classics is growing ever stronger.
Oh, and she plays the autoharp, omnichord and stylophone which they never let her do in opera.