Paull-Anthony made his European debut in 2018 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. As a member of the company’s ensemble he appeared in eleven productions including Nabucco, Die Zauberflöte, Salome and Eugene Onegin. The following two seasons, he was a member of Theatre Basel’s ensemble apprearing as Colline in La Bohème, Hobson in Peter Grimes and in Die Zauberflöte and Al gran sole carico d’amore. After the 2021/22 and 2022/23 seasons as a member of the full-time chorus at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, he will return to Australia to join Opera Australia’s full-time chorus.
He began his professional career at the West Australia Opera singing Pinellino in Gianni Schicchi, Sciarrone in Tosca, Colline in La Bohème, Parson & Badger in The Cunning Little Vixen and Zuniga in Carmen. His operatic repertoire includes Leporello in Don Giovanni, Frank in Die Fledermaus and The Ogre in Montsalvatge’s El Gato con Botas. On the concert stage he has performed the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah and soloist in Vaughn Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Faure’s Requiem, Bach’s Cantata BWV. 147, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Mozart's Missa Brevis in F major.
A graduate of Manhattan School of Music and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Paull-Anthony was named the winner of the 2017 Opera Foundation for Young Australians' Deutsche Oper Berlin Award, received the Richard Bonynge Award in the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award and the ROSL award IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition. He was awarded scholarships from the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund, the Australian Music Foundation, the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and the Royal Schools of Music Club and is the proud recipient of the Amelia Joscelyne Memorial Scholarship from the Melba Opera Trust, Sir Robert William Askin Operatic Scholarship, Tait Memorial Trust’s Julian Baring Award and a 2017 Mike Walsh Fellowship.
In adition to his work as a singer, Paull-Anthony is vocal coach, working alongside his husband Thomas Victor Johnson as paull&thom.