From mechanical fitting in the mining industry to opera singing in one of Australia’s biggest musical ensembles isn’t your usual career pathway, but for Rockingham man Ammon Bennett it’s been a dream come true. 

Since graduating from WAAPA, Bennett successfully auditioned and has joined the internationally renowned Ten Tenors. 

The Western Australian opera singer Ammon Bennett told Julie-anne Sprague on 6PR Afternoons he knew he could make the dramatic side step into the arts. 

“When I was working in the mines it was this thought or feeling about wanting to do something and singing was always something I grew up with,” Mr Bennett said. 

“I just happened to be working in the mines and had that burning desire to just pursue music and singing, I knew I could do it, I just needed that opportunity.”