Eugene Raggio

Australian-Maltese Performing Artist Eugene Raggio is an Honours graduate of the Elder Conservatorium (Adelaide), a graduate actor of the Adelaide Centre for the Arts and a graduate screenwriter/director/producer of the International Film School Sydney. 

Eugene is the Associate Director of the Australian Remembrance Foundation and founding conductor of Lest we Forget – an Anzac Day Tribute, a National commemorative event to support Australian Veterans that broadcasts on Channel 7.

Eugene’s short film "The Lover’s Coat" has screened and claimed prizes at LA Shorts Awards, Hollywood Film Festival, LA Cinefest and International Festival of World Cinema – NICE where it was nominated for best cinematography.

His short film "Restitution for a Manes – an Elegy" was nominated at Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest and Salair International Independent Film Festival.

Eugene is a co-writer and producer with acclaimed Lithuanian Filmmaker Tomas Donela. Their two screenplays Bloodlands and Dance for Rain are both in preproduction in the EU. 
His debut Anthology feature Trittico is now in post-production.

In 2014 Eugene was a young artist with Australian Contemporary Opera Co. He has appeared in the Inaugural Nagambie Lakes Opera Festival Vic and toured with Opera Australia in Victoria/NSW and nationally with Co-Opera. In the EU he has appeared with Berliner Wagner Gruppe, Berlin Summer Festival, Berlin Dramatic Voices; York Trust and Dei Gratia (UK). He has toured the German speaking world with Das Phantom Der Oper (Arndt/Gerber - ASA Events) successive years. Eugene’s repertoire includes: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Lohengrin, Eugene Onegin, Hänsel and Gretel, Gianni Schicchi, Armide, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata, The Consul and Mozart y Salieri. 
A former organist at St Francis Xavier Cathedral Adelaide, Eugene has long been associated as the with the choir of St Peter’s Catholic Church Surry Hills, in the heart of Sydney where he was organist and music director over 10 years. A respected champion of choral and sacred music, he is now running one of the most competitive choral programs in The Sydney Catholic Archdiocese for the Catholic Parishes of Bondi. 

Eugene was recipient of the Sheila Prior Memorial Scholarship, and has received scholarship awards from the Wagner Society of New South Wales, the Australian Cultural Fund, The Opera and Arts Support Group and the Performers Trust Foundation (PPCA)