Margaret Haggart

alt=Margaret Haggart standing looking at camera smiling, she is wearing a jacket with the label "The Silent Anzac" behind her a stacked chairs and marble columns. Margaret Haggart OAM is an Australian operatic soprano and community arts founder based in Melbourne, Australia. Her career spans over 90 operatic, operetta and cabaret roles, performed in the United Kingdom, Italy, France, the United States of America, South America, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. She is a board member of Melbourne Opera, Green Room Awards and a committee member for the now finished Mietta Song Competition.

In June 2023 she was awarded an Order of Australia for services to the performing arts.

Early life Haggart grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, her father a Scottish coal miner migrated to Australia and met her mother of English heritage when they were working at a zip factory in Deer Park. In France she sang with the Opéra national de Lorraine (formerly known as Opéra de Nancy) and Chorégies d'Orange.

Association with Gian Carlo Menotti Haggart was invited by Gian Carlo Menotti to perform in his Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto in 1986. This included the recorded-to-video performance of Menotti's La santa di Bleecker Street for the festival. She then travelled to the US and performed in the same production for the 10th U.S. Spoleto Festival. Menotti founded the Spoleto Festival Melbourne, where she was invited to perform in its opening season. Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck (1999) – Opera D'Oro, OPD-1204

Filmography

"Mrs Grosse" in The Turn of the Screw: Britten, Opera Australia, ABC Video (1991) "Witch" in Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck, Opera Australia ABC Video (1992) "Maria Corona" in La santa di Bleecker Street, Menotti, Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto (1986) "Berta" in The Barber of Seville, Rossini, Victoria State Opera, ABC Video (1984)