About
Yasmin Arkinstall is an opera singer for hire in Sydney, NSW.
Yasmin Arkinstall is a mezzo soprano who finished a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium in 2018. Opera, classical, musical theatre and classical crossover all sit inside her range, which is why the same singer works for a traditional ceremony and a modern party. A typical 45 minute set is multi lingual: O Sole Mio, O Mio Babbino Caro, Habanera from Carmen, La Vie En Rose, Ave Maria, Somewhere Over the Rainbow. She has sung on Studio 10 in 2019 and 2023, featured in the Australian Women's Weekly and on ABC News, supported Bill Bailey's En Route to Normal at the State Theatre in 2022, and received two Creative Australia grants to tour her one woman show OCDiva around NSW. In 2025 she sang for the Women's Ashes. She brings her own mic and battery powered PA, and works weddings, funerals, dinners and parties. Insured, with a current Working With Children Check.
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The show
Yasmin is a classical singer, a mezzo soprano, and her sets take in opera, classical, musical theatre and classical crossover alongside contemporary songs given the operatic treatment. A typical programme runs from operatic staples such as Ave Maria through musical theatre standards like Somewhere Over the Rainbow and into more recent material, La Vie En Rose among it. She has set lists ready for weddings, funerals, dinners and parties, and will recommend one for the occasion. Requests are welcome.
On the day
Yasmin arrives with her own microphone and a battery powered PA, which she sings over backing tracks through. Because the power comes from the PA itself, a garden ceremony or a spot with no outlet nearby is no barrier.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured
Working with Children Check
Song list
12 songs
Ave Maria (either in Latin or German) - Franz Schubert and Sir Walter Scott or Adam Storck
Funiculì, Funiculà - Luigi Denza & Peppino Turco
Habanera (from Carmen) - Georges Bizet
La Vie En Rose - Marguerite Monnot, Louis Guglielmi and Édith Piaf
O Mio Babbino Caro (from Gianni Schicchi) – Giacomo Puccini & Giovacchino Forzano
O Sole Mio (It’s Now or Never) - Eduardo di Capua, Alfredo Mazzucchi & Giovanni Capurro
Santa Lucia - Teodoro Cottrau
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) - Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg
Sous le Ciel de Paris (Yves Montand version) - Jean Dréjac and Hubert Giraud
Voi che sapete (from Le Nozze di Figaro) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Lorenzo Da Ponte
Volare (Nel blu, dipinto di blu) - Domenico Modugno & Franco Migliacci
You Raise Me Up - Rolf Løvland & Brendan Graham
