Abstract:
One of the year’s musical highlights, Opera Scenes prevails in its capacity to captivate and delight audiences. A vocal feast previewing the future of New Zealand opera you will experience resounding performances from the School’s talented voice students. This year’s programme comprises a wide variety of familiar and unfamiliar repertoire, ranging from Mozart to Lehár, Blitzstein to Offenbach, Thomson to Humperdinck, and all set as a vaudeville show straight out of 1910 New York. Opera Scenes is the culmination performance of The Wallace Opera Training Programme, made possible by generous support from The Wallace Foundation. The cast consists of undergraduate and postgraduate voice performance students, coached and led by the School of Music’s accomplished academic and performance staff. Contributors: Camp, G (Director); Johnsson, C (Co-Director; Grylls, K (Conductor) Fuller, R (Pianist); Wiremu, R (Pianist)