The West Australian Opera selected Roberts-Smith as a Mentored Artist in 2015 . He was invited to sing the national anthem that year at a commemoration in Melbourne of the victims of shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 . He then toured China in 2015 with the Australian International Opera Company as Count Almaviva in Mozart 's '' The Marriage of Figaro '' . On the concert stage , he sang with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in '' Messiah that year
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Sam Roberts-Smith