Charis Postmus
MetSO Artist Charis Postmus; MetSO Young Artist 2022,2025
Charis Postmus is a 25-year-old Perth soprano with a First-Class Honours Degree in Classical Voice from WAAPA. She began her vocal training in 2018.
She returned to post-graduate studies in 2023 to conduct research in the comparison of classical and jazz singing and has since developed into a versatile cross-genre vocalist.
Charis currently works with Freeze Frame Opera Company in both an administrative and performance capacity.
She is also a frequent performer with West Australian Opera, Opus WA, Bloomhouse Projects, the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and the FRINGE Festival.
As the 2023 recipient of the Barbara MacLeod Scholarship,
Charis undertook further jazz studies at The New York Jazz Academy in 2024.
Freeze Frame Opera Schools Tour
2025 Role of ‘Baby Bear’; Goldilocks (a.k.a The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart)
2024 Role of ‘Pamina’; The Magic Kazoo (a.k.a. The Magic Flute – Mozart)
2023 Role of ‘Aunty Bertha’; Rapunzel (a.k.a. The Barber of Seville – Rossini)
Selection of Recent Musical Highlights
- Artist in Residence with The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra [2025]
- Role of ‘Gianetta’; in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’Amore [Opus WA, 2024]
- Soloist in the Enchanted Encounters production ‘Songs of the Supernatural’ [West Australian Opera, 2024]
- Soloist for regional tour of Handel’s Messiah [Perth Symphonic Chorus, 2023]
- Soloist in regional tour of J.S. Bach’s St Matthews Passion. [ Opus WA, 2023]
- Young Artist with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra [2022 + 2025]
- Featured Artist in Opus WA’s Opera Gala [Government House Ballroom, 2022 / 2023 / 2024]
- Prize winner in the Vocal Recital Championships [The North of Perth Music Festival, 2020]
- Winner of the Young Singers Competition [Royal Overseas League, 2020]
- Role of ‘Eliza’ in Elena Kats-Chernin’s Wild Swan Suite [Warana Prize, 2021]
- Role of ‘Ruth’ in The Pirates of Penzance [WAAPA, 2021]
- Role of ‘Cupid’ in Orpheus in the Underworld [WAAPA, 2020]
- Vocal soloist in Steve Reich’s Drumming [Defying Gravity Ensemble, 2020]
- Finalist in the 2020 Julie Michael’s Cabaret Awards with the original work: “The Extra-Ordinary Victor Borg... and friends”