ROGER LEMKE Javert

TOURED: Melbourne, Auckland, Perth, Brisbane

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Roger Lemke's career spans music theatre, opera, film and concert performance. His first professional engagements were as an actor in television, following which he pursued a career in music and the stage. Roger made his operatic debut in 1985 with Victoria State Opera as Schaunard in La Boheme, and with Opera Australia (formerly The Australian Opera) as Schaunard in 1986. He has since appeared with all the Australian opera companies, as well as in New Zealand in a diverse range of roles which include Papageno in The Magic Flute, Taddeo in The Italian Girl in Algiers, Giuseppe in The Gondoliers, Count Boni in The Gipsy Princess, two seasons as Marcello in the highly acclaimed Baz Luhrmann production of La Boheme (televised throughout the USA, the UK and Europe), the Engineer in the world premiere of The Eighth Wonder by Alan John, Lescaut in Manon Lescaut, the Count and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Sharpless in the Ken Russell production of Madam Butterfly, Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos, Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, Anckarstroem in A Masked Ball, Valentin in the acclaimed lan Judge production of Faust, Elviro in Xerxes and Marcello in The Puccini Spectacular. In addition to his opera engagements, Roger is seen regularly in concert at Carols in the Domain and Carols by Candlelight, both televised nationally, and with the Australian Pops Orchestra. Other concert appearances have included performances for the ABC's Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, as well as numerous festival performances including Mangus in The Knot Garden (Melbourne), and Maximilian in Bernstein's Candide (Brisbane Biennial). He received a Green Room Award in 1990. In musical theatre, Roger has performed the roles of Old Deuteronomy in Cats, and Javert in the recent Melbourne season of Les Miserables.
He appears in the ABC videos La Boheme, The Gondoliers and The Gipsy Princess, and on the highlights CD of La Boheme on ABC Classics. He recently made his big screen debut in The Wiggles Movie.

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