Entertainment
3 May, 2025
Music on a high in FNQ
TO celebrate 30 years of singing beautiful music together, the Ten Tenors are back in Cairns for an epic show of vocal mastery filled with everything from classical arias to Motown and disco hits on Monday.
What started as a one-off performance for a corporate event by a slightly rag tag group of young blokes from Brisbane’s Conservatorium of Music in 1995 has gone on to become a musical and touring juggernaut.
Thirty years later the Ten Tenors have toured around the world but always return to where it all began, and in this 30th anniversary tour they’re returning to the Cairns Performing Arts Centre on Monday, May 5 for a show full of beautiful operatic and classical songs and some funky hits.
“It’s really exciting to be celebrating 30 years of the Ten Tenors. We have done a lot of touring recently but to finally be celebrating 30 years is amazing and we’re all really excited,” said one of the tenors, Cameron Barkley.
“This is my fifth time coming to Cairns and I just really love Far North Queensland, it almost feels like a holiday,” he said.
“For people in Cairns who haven’t been to this show before they can expect a very fun night out.
“The word tenor makes people think of classical music or opera and that’s where the roots of our group are but among the 10 singers we have expertise across all different styles of music. That allows us to present a very varied program, there’s a bit of choreography, lighting and we chat to the audience a lot so it’s quite relaxed although the music is presented very seriously.
“It’s just very fun and everybody will be dancing by the time they leave.”
Mr Barkley said people could expect a great catalogue from music ranging from classic to R&B. “Our roots are in classical music so we’re bringing some classical Italian songs.”
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