Endangered Productions was thrilled to welcome baritone Ziggy Harris as a cast member our 2025 production Arlecchino. Ziggy's performance as free-wheeling Abbate Conspicuo was an audience favourite. With Matthew Avery as Dottor Bombasto, the pair at times stole the show.
Born and raised amidst the frosts of Armidale, Australian baritone, Ziggy Harris, holds a Master’s of Music (Voice & Opera) from the Schulich School of Music, where he studied under the tutelage of baritone Brett Polegato and coach/pianist Louise Pelletier, and received funding from McGill's Fellows Scholarship Program.
In competitions, he has appeared as an award-winning finalist of the 2026 MTO German-Australian Opera Grant, a finalist of the Prix D'Art Vocal Wirth, a semi-finalist of the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship, and is a recipient of awards from the Bill Diamond & Megan Evans OAM Memorial Awards and the Sydney Eisteddfod Jubilee Fund.
As a soloist, he has appeared at Montreál's Maison Symphonique under the baton of Dr Jean-Sebastien Vallée, the 2024 Montréal Bach Festival with Les Muses Chorales, and the 2025 Sydney Fringe Festival in the new musical, 'PYRATES!', by Jassy Husk.
His concert repertoire as a soloist includes 'Johannespassion' (Bach), BWV82 'Ich Habe Genug' (Bach), 'Messiah' (Handel), 'Petite Messe Solennelle' (Rossini), 'Requiem' (Duruflé), and 'Requiem' (Faure). As a keen recitalist, and having developed his song-recital artistry with Michael McMahon, He has performed sold-out recitals for the community of his hometown, Armidale, alongside pianist Dr Robert Manley, which showcased a mix of operatic arias and lieder cycles
In March of 2025, he workshopped and performed a song cycle of graphic scores by composer, pianist, and friend Toby Stanford (Répétiteur - Scottish Opera EAP) titled 'When I was A Boy, I Lived Like Water', set to texts by poet and friend Cyrus Larcombe Moore. In April of 2024, Ziggy performed the world premiere of Canadian composer Sylvie Rickard’s song cycle 'Answering The Call', which was set for baritone, guitar and clarinet, and revised by guitarist Dr Razvan Bezna.
A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Ziggy earned his Bachelor of Music (Voice) with Distinction, studying with baritone Dr Simon Lobelson, countertenor Andrew Dalton, and coach/pianist Alan Hicks, having been awarded the Pete Davidson and Patricia Long Scholarships.