“Opera changes...your consciousness, your mental state and your disposition, and you come out...with a more creative mindset. You are different afterwards...transformed.”
- HANS HENKELL
Philanthropist/Businessman
ACOCO Donor since 2010
Director, German Australian Opera Grant
PHILANTHROPY
Financial support through donations has resulted in 16 years of innovative, engaging and inspiring stories, shared with over 200,000 people live, and 13M online/globally, as well as forging the careers of many Australian opera artists working on stages across Australia and internationally.
Donors and Partners are at the core of what we do - through our connection we all create scope to imagine, collaborate, commission and present exceptional opera, which in turn stimulates, connects and delights audiences.
DONORS
PODIUM
Maureen Wheeler AO
Hans & Petra Henkell Australian Communities Fund
The Urquhart Charitable Fund
Bill Gillies
Gertrude Johnson Estate
Leanne & Emeri de Bortoli
Lorna Nash
E T Mooney
Marjorie & Eduard Eshuys
Amy Poynton in memory of Patricia Batista
Pivotal Gifts:
The Dowd Foundation (Yarra Valley Interests 2018-2021)
Margaret Lawrence Bequest (Yarra Valley interests: Perpetual Trustees 2020-2021)
FRONT ROW
Helen Sykes AM
James McKeon
Josie Rizza
Michael Anderson & Khoi Bui
Nadia Taylor
Professor Charles Qin OAM & Kate Ritchie
Ruth & Tom O’Dea
Amy Poynton
DRESS CIRCLE
Barbara & Robert Paterson
Chin Communications
Christine Christian AO
Craig Lidgerwood & Stephen Ryan
Howell Williams
Jane & Malcolm Steel
Joy Villalino & Alan Shaw
Kathryn Fagg AO
Liz Nield OAM
Margaret & John (dec.) Dumesny
Michael A. R. Anderson & Dr Khoi Bui
Dr Michael Troy
STALLS
Brenda Dobia
Brian Castles-Onion AM
Caroline Travers OAM & Richard Travers OAM
Daniel Szesiong Todd
Genevieve Overell AM
Irina Kuzminsky & Mark Delaney
HH Frances Millane
Joan Spiller
Mary Hemming AO
Meyer & Carole Sibbel
Nance Grant AM MBE & Ian Harris
Paul & Gay Rosen
Paul Gardner AM
Rupert Myer AO
Suzanne Halliday
BALCONY
Alex Walters
Andrew Gissing
Anne & Denise Neri
Christine O’Reilly
Daniel & Susan Feldman
David & Margaret Young
Dr Christina Thomas
Ella Caldwell
James Moffatt
Jason Catlett
Katy Turbitt
Monica Lim
Orlando de Pury
Patricia Stabile Wells
Paul Selar
Peter Georgiadis
Seri Renkin OAM
Simon Lewis
Snowe Li
Stephanie & Peter Exton
Stuart & Sue Hamilton
Stuart Cairns
Tony Nicholson
Warwick Bray & Lida Rahdon
Donors and Partners are have facilitated enduring impact through their investment in ACOCO, particularly in the advancement of careers of Australian performing artists, and in expanding contemporary operatic story-telling, in Australia, on a global stage.
