Mark Opitz Net Worth

Mark Opitz Net Worth is
$700,000

Mark Opitz Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Mark Opitz is an Australian record producer who was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1952 and moved to Brisbane in 1959 spending his teenage years there. He is a childhood friend of Kym Gyngell.Opitz started his career with ABC TV in Sydney in the 1970s and has since gone on to work with many of the great Australian musicians that have graced both the Australian and international music charts for the past 25 years.When Australia's pre-eminent production team, Vanda and Young, offered Opitz, fresh from his job as at EMI Music (Capitol & Local Artists Label Manager), a position as their apprentice producer he accepted immediately and started working with their artists that included AC/DC, Rose Tattoo and John Paul Young and Flash In The Pan. Opitz learned the skills necessary to be a top music producer through this on the job training.It was during this period Opitz was given the job of producing Alberts artists The Angels producing theirFace To Face & No Exit albums. Opitz stumbled upon gold by creating The Angels signature, thick guitar sound that ruled Australia's '80s/90s airwaves.Around this time Warner Music offered Opitz the position as Head of A&R while he was producing the East album for Cold Chisel. He accepted and went on to sign Billy Field, The Divinyls and many others. He also produced further albums for Cold Chisel ( Circus Animals and Swingshift), Richard Clapton (Great Escape), Swanee and the Hitmen.After leaving corporate A&R Opitz entered into a partnership in the legendary Rhinoceros Studios in Sydney, set up his own production company and went on to produce albums for Jimmy Barnes, INXS' first classic album, Shabooh Shoobah, Models "Out Of Mind Out Of Sight", Hoodoo Gurus "What's My Scene", Australian Crawl's "Reckless", Noiseworks and The Reels as well as many others.The 1980s saw Opitz win the industry voted Australia's Best Producer Award 7 times. (2x Aria's and 5 ABC TV Countdown).In the '90s, Opitz was based primarily overseas working with International artists. During that time he also produced several more INXS albums, including Welcome to Wherever You Are and Full Moon, Dirty Hearts. He also produced "Live Baby Live" for the band while accompanying them on their yearlong international tour while acting as their music production advisor. This climaxed with the legendary Wembley Stadium show that was released in DVD format in 2003.Marks career also has a solid international profile; he is included in Billboards All Time Top "Producer Encyclopaedia", which covers all genres of music. He has more recently worked with likes of Bob Dylan on his Academy Award ceremony performance of "Things Have Changed" from the movie The Wonder Boys as well as the more recent US double platinum award winning KISS / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra TV/ DVD/CD Kiss Symphony/Alive 4. Other international artists Opitz has worked with during his career include Lenny Kravitz, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys and many other European and

ProfessionMusic Department, Soundtrack
#Fact
1A well respected music producer in Australia, Opitz has produced albums for artists such as INXS, Cold Chisel, The Angels, Paul Kelly, Hunters and Collectors, Jimmy Barnes, Mental as Anything and much more.

Music Department

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Cut2000/Imusic consultant
INXS: The Great Video Experience1994Video documentary song producer
Australian Made: The Movie1987Documentary music supervisor

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Lost Boys1987producer: "Good Times", "Laying Down The Law"

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Blood and Thunder: The Sound of Alberts2015TV Mini-Series documentaryEngineer / Producer Albert
Australian Story2014TV Series documentaryHimself - Record Producer
Spicks and Specks2010TV SeriesHimself

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1987ARIA Music AwardARIA Music AwardsProducer of the Year

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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