Ms Jopson secured the 2017 Vienna State Opera Award from the Opera Foundation for young Australians.  

“I’m incredibly excited,” she told family and friends on Facebook.

“This will see me working at the Wiener Staatsoper from January to May next year.

“Thank you to the Opera Foundation for young Australians for supporting me to take up this award.”

Possessing an exciting lyrico-spinto voice that is not often encountered, Ms Jopson is an artist with a “widely expressive soprano impressing from the steaming lower range through to her evenly controlled top notes”.

She made her Western Australia debut performing Ariadne and Prima Donna in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos with OperaBox in September 2016.

In 2015, Ms Jopson won the 91st Herald Sun Aria Competition, the oldest and most prestigious contest in Australia, which has been a launching pad for many international singing careers. 

She was previously awarded third prize in 2012.

Born in Scone, Ms Jopson moved to Melbourne in 2007 to start her studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, where she graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Music Performance (Repertoire).

Since completing her studies, she has had extensive performance experience with Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, Melbourne Opera and Citi Opera. 

Roles include Mimi (La Boheme), Marzelline (Fidelio), Melpomene (Halcyon Days – The Quest for a Wife), Suor Zelatrice (Suor Angelica), Micaëla (Carmen), Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Witch 2 and Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas). 

She has also been part of “live” broadcasts on 3MBS-FM and ABC Classic FM (Melbourne) and has performed as a Soprano Soloist in Bach’s Magnificat in D and Mass in F Major.

Ms Jopson has been the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships such as the Amelia Joscelyne Memorial Scholarship (Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust), Opus 50 Charitable Trust and the Thomas Baker Acclaim Opera Fellowship (Acclaim Awards) to study at the Accademia alla Scala in Milan, Italy with world-renowned soprano, Luciana Serra.