Australian Soprano Diipti Firmstone is a gifted artist currently based in Berlin, specializing as a Verdian and bel canto soprano. Diipti is living the life she has always dreamed of. Collaborating with local musicians, conductors, and directors in various endeavors from Opera to Cabaret, Jazz to Operetta, Diipti enjoys performing a wide range of musical styles, especially repertoire that fulfills all her dramatic desires.

Highlights in Diipti's career include singing Gulnara in Il Corsaro at Teatro Verdi in Busseto, Italy (2023); Mimi in The Berlin Opera Group’s La Bohème (2016); starring in a one-woman show Interdependency at the English Theatre Berlin (2015); solo Lieder recital as part of the Bundesgartenschau ‘BUGA 2015’; Musical Theatre Gala Concert in Hamburg (2013); English Theatre Berlin’s Cabaret Festival (2013), presenting excerpts from Pierre Luniere (Schönberg); Frasquita (Carmen) at Potsdam’s Stadtwerkefest (2012); gala concerts in Berlin - Aria Abend (2012) & Lieder Abend (2012); yearly Advent concerts in Berlin Brandenburg (2012 - 2024); performing the role ‘Wife’ in the Australian premiere of The Juniper Tree at The Abbotsford Convent Opera Festival (2011); soprano soloist in Dvořák's Stabat Mater at St John’s Southgate Melbourne (2011); and soprano soloist for the Shandong China Tour Gala concert in Jinan, China (2008).

Diipti has recently deepened her expertise in Verdian and bel canto repertoire through studies with renowned maestri at the Accademia di Carlo Bergonzi, including M° Fabio Armiliato, M° Alessandro Trebeschi, M° Simone Maria Marziali, M° Cristina Ferri, M° Giorgio Surian, M° Laura Giuseppina Bulian, and M° Alberto Gazale.

Upon completing her formal studies in 2009, Diipti was immediately taken into the Melbourne Opera Studio’s Young Artist program, where she performed the roles of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Miss Pinkerton in The Old Maid and the Thief, Geraldine in A Hand of Bridge, Mother in Hansel & Gretel, and understudied Galatea in Händel's Acis and Galatea. The Age Melbourne reviewed Don Giovanni and noted that Diipti “sang memorably in the role of Donna Anna, including a particularly fine ‘Non mi dir’.” During her time as a Young Artist, she also appeared on Melbourne Radio 3MBS performing live and on Melbourne TV, singing the Collingwood Football Anthem on Channel 10 TV special.

Diipti has had success in several major singing competitions, namely as a semi-finalist in the 2014 Elizabeth Connell Prize for Aspiring Dramatic Sopranos. She was a semi-finalist in the 2011 and 2012 MTO German-Australian Opera Award, a semi-finalist in the prestigious Australian Lieder Competition ‘Mietta Song Recital Award’ (2008), awarded second place in the South East Queensland Aria & Concerto Competition (2007), and won the Senior Operatic Aria Music Teachers Association QLD (2007).

Diipti graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music (Honors) in Performance and Pedagogy (2006) and a Graduate Certificate in Music (2007), before earning her Graduate Diploma in Opera Performance (2009). She has also studied privately with esteemed singing teachers Laura Sarti in London, Gundola Hintz in Berlin, Roxane Hislop and Rosamund Illing in Melbourne, and Jason Barry Smith and Prof. Janet Del Pratt AM in Brisbane. Her studies were supported by scholarships including the Amy Alice McDonald Award International Study Grant (2013), Opus 50 Scholarship International Musical Study Grant (2012), Hans Henkell Scholarship (2010), Dr Francesco Castellano Operatic Italian Award (2008), and Linda Edith Ellen Postgraduate Prize Operatic Scholarship (2007).