Steven Gallop began his professional singing career with the Queensland Lyric Opera then was later engaged by the Australian Opera. He took part in the ESSO Young Artist Programme singing many roles between 1990 and 1994. In 1992 he won the Sydney Operatic Aria Award and used this opportunity to study in Vienna. His European debut in Vienna was as John Claggart (Billy Budd). With Welsh National Opera he sang Don Fernando (Fidelio) and Varlaam (Boris Godunov), and was involved in the English National Opera’s production of Lulu.
Acclaimed performances of Thomas Ades Powder Her Face have taken him from Vienna to Odense, Tel Aviv National Opera, Zagreb Concert House, Chicago, Nantes, Winterthur, Rome and San Carlo Theatre, Naples. Other performances have been at the Vienna Volksoper and in the Klangbogen Festival as Barbemuche in Leoncavello’s La Boheme. Concert performances include highlights from Don Carlos (King Philip, Friar), Rigoletto (Sparafucile), Faust (Mephistopheles), The Magic Flute (Sarastro), Fidelio (Rocco), and Boris (Boris Gudonov), Der Freischutz (Kasper).
In 2004 he sang in the Chilean premiere of Peter Grimes (Swallow) in Teatro Municipal in Santiago.
Among other performances in 2007 he sang in Der Freischutz (Kasper); the Reinsberg Festival, Austria; Tan Dun’s opera Tea (The Emperor), Don Giovanni (The Commendatore),UK and in The Magic Flute (Sarastro) for Eugene Opera, Oregon, US. He gave performances of the Verdi Requiem in Arundel Cathedral and Bury St. Edmunds, UK.
Recently Steven sang the role of Mephistopheles in Gounod’s Faust for Opera Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.