Meet Dr Holman Koops who sings opera to his patients at Waverley

MEET the Waverley doctor who sings opera to his patients. Doctor Holman Koops says there should be more music in people’s lives and he is taking the matter into his own hands.

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MEET the Waverley doctor who sings opera to his patients.

Doctor Holman Koops says there should be more music in people’s lives and he is taking the matter into his own hands.

The 54-year-old is always singing songs in between appointments at his Bronte Rd medical practice.

Dr Holman Koops sings opera to his patients.

“I’ve been singing seriously for 15 years,” Dr Koops said.

“I was thinking about taking up the piano again which I studied as a child (but) my piano teacher said to go and study singing.

“So I took up classical voice training.”

Dr Koops studied part-time with a professor of voice from the conservatorium for more than a decade.

For the past 10 years, he has taken every Friday off work to study singing and opera.

One of his biggest fans, his patient Wendy Miller, said it always brightened her day to hear her doctor sing.

“It always cheers us up and makes us happy,” she said.

Dr Holman Koops sings opera to his patients.

“Every Tuesday, he gives us a little concert.

“He’s wonderful and it brings a tear to my eye to hear him.”

Dr Koops is preparing to have a concert in July at the Mary Immaculate Church with a fellow soprano singer, accompanied by a pianist.

“It’s going to be an all-Italian concert to celebrate the long established Italian community in Waverley,” he said.

“Many of them were very familiar with opera — they know it all.

“I’m not Italian (but) I’ve been linguistic all my life, it was no difficulty for me to learn.”

Dr Koops, a Randwick resident, said he didn’t sing to his patients until he started at the Charing Cross Medical Practice three years ago.