Amelia Farrugia (often misspelled as "Ferrugia",[1] born 28 July 1970)[2] is an Australian soprano opera singer[3] of Maltese descent.
[2] She won awards in the Sydney Eisteddfod and the 1996 Australian Singing Competition, and the 1995 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in New York[4] where she covered leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera in 2012 and 2015.
After winning awards in such events as the Sydney Eisteddfod and the Australian Singing Competition, she started performing with Opera Australia,[5] first performing lead roles in 1994.
[7] Farrugia sang the title role in Opera Australia's 2010 staging of Giles Havergal's production of The Merry Widow opposite David Hobson's Danilo.
[8] She sang Cunegonde, again opposite Hobson, in Lindy Hume's production of Bernstein's Candide for Opera Queensland in 2015.