of the Bulletin Magazine's Smart 100 series. In the Australia Day Honours of 2006, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). In 2008 she was forced to suspend her singing career due to neuro-muscular spasms in her neck. She returned to the stage in May 2011, in a recital with Simone Young on piano. In August 2013, she made her return to the Sydney Symphony, performing Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder. Lisa Gasteen is currently on the staff of the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University as a singing teacher and Practice Professor of Opera. In 2011, she founded the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School, an intensive, four-week summer school with international guest coaches. References External links Lisa Gasteen - The Wagner in a travelling divas tale Lisa Gasteen - Opera~Opera article 2005 Lisa Gasteen National Opera School - Lisa Gasteen National Opera School 1957 births Living people Australian operatic sopranos Helpmann Award winners Musicians from Brisbane Officers of the Order of Australia Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University alumni Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University faculty 20th-century Australian women opera singers 21st-century Australian women opera singers