Shanul Sharma is an Indian-born Australian tenor acclaimed for the brilliance, precision, and clarity of his voice. After beginning his career as the lead vocalist of heavy-metal bands and releasing three studio albums between 2004 and 2012, he moved to Melbourne in 2013 to pursue operatic training.

He made his Opera Australia debut in 2014 as Don Ramiro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola and later joined the company’s Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Programme from 2018 to 2021. His notable roles include Il Conte di Libenskof in Il viaggio a Reims, Il Conte d’Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, M.K. Gandhi in Philip Glass’s Satyagraha, Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia, Lindoro in L’italiana in Algeri, and the title role in Mozart’s Mitridate, Re di Ponto.

Shanul has performed with leading companies and festivals including the Bolshoi Theatre, Rossini Opera Festival, Norwegian National Opera, and Victorian Opera, and with orchestras such as the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, and West Australian Symphony Orchestra. In 2023, Australian composer Richard Mills wrote the role of Pope Urban VIII in Galileo specifically for him.

Alongside his operatic career, Shanul has toured internationally with French new-age project +eRa+, performing to a combined audience of more than 60,000. He holds an MA in Advanced Vocal Studies from the Wales International Academy of Voice and is the winner of both the 2017 Canto Lirico and Rossini International Award, as well as Broadway World Sydney’s 2019 award for Best Performer in an Opera – Male.