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Submitted by Mark Leicester on February 17, 2011 - 19:39.
Helen Oakes writes,
My late father, Thomas Tague was a member of the opera society and has left us a huge collection of opera records on his death. I would like to offer these to sale to collectors. Attached is the list of the records.
Please contact Helen for more information.
Submitted by NZ Opera News on October 20, 2010 - 21:19.
This course offers a comprehensive view of the range of operatic voices, interspersed with opportunities to listen and to view performances of opera. You will hear famous voices from the past, such as Maria Callas, and be able to compare them to contemporary performances. You will also gain an appreciation of the demands on opera singers and the ways composers have utilised voices in their compositions. Participants will receive notes covering the operatic voices and a suggested listening list.
Over two sessions you will hear examples of the different type of voices required for operatic roles: the first session focuses on the female operatic voices; and the second session highlights male voices.
Date: Saturdays 6 & 13 November, 2pm-5pm
Fee: $92 ($82.80)
For full course information and to enrol visit http://www.victoria.ac.nz/CCEShortcourses/seminars-workshops.aspx and click on Music.
Submitted by chocoholic_chic92 on September 24, 2010 - 23:04.
Hello, my name is Kayla, and I am 17 years old. I have been taking singing lessons for around 3-4 years now and have decided to pursue classical singing as a career. I have been studying music since I was quite young, but my family never expected that I would do it as a career as we are quite an ordinary family, I am the first to go to university. Only in the last few years have I had the confidence in myself through the help of others to think that I could succeed in the area of music, and so I have been working very hard with my singing, piano, viola, and general music studies. I am planning to study classical singing at university next year. I recently had my first audition, and did not get in as I was not as prepared for the audition as I thought I was, and was also quite sick, as well as the chances of getting in being very slim. I have more auditions coming up. These are my questions:
1)Any audition tips and things I should know?
2)Are there areas other than opera and oratorio that are available for classical singers to head into?
3)How do I go about beginning a career in classical singing once I get into university?
Thanks!
Submitted by NZ Opera News on August 5, 2010 - 05:24.
Join Tre-Belle, three stunning voices, for one night of cabaret performing your favourites from Opera to Broadway.
Tre-Belle, NZ Pop-Opera trio comprises Karyn Andreassend, Jennifer Little and Jess Segal. All are experienced, classically trained singers who have performed professionally in New Zealand, Australia and Europe. At home, they have performed with, amongst others, NBR NZ Opera, Wellington Musical Theatre, Lyon Opera, Pan Pacific Productions, Royal Wanganui Opera Foundation and Theatre Hawkes Bay.
Tre-Belle dazzles with their striking blend of coloratura agility, beautiful lyric and rich mezzo.
Come along and enjoy the plush cabaret environment, food, wine and the stunningly moving music of ‘Opera to Broadway’.
First Floor Gallery, St James Theatre, Courtenay Place. Doors open 6.30pm. On Stage 8pm.
Thursday 12 August 2010. Tickets $35.00 (service fees apply)
Submitted by NZ Opera News on December 6, 2009 - 10:16.
Date/Time: Saturday 12 December 2009 7:30pm Location: St Andrew’s on The Terrace, Wellington On Saturday, December 12 the Wellington Branch of The New Zealand Opera Society is presenting its annual End-of-Year Recital. We are pleased to announce that the featured artist this year will be Wendy Dawn Thompson last seen in Wellington earlier this year as the sultry star of NBR New Zealand Opera’s production of Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri. She received rave reviews for her performance and we are delighted that she has agreed to do this recital for us.
She is returning to Wellington especially to do this recital for the Society.
Joining her will be two rising stars. Soprano Amelia Berry has just finished her Bachelor of Music at The New Zealand School of Music in Wellington. She is a student of Flora Edwards. She starred as Semele in the School of Music’s production of Handel’s opera this year and is moving on to do Honours in Performance in 2010. She won this year’s Dame Malvina Major Foundation Wellington Aria competition.
Baritone Matthew Landreth is originally from Dunedin and is now resident in Wellington. Matthew has been a PricewatersCooperhouse Dame Malvina Emerging Artist with NBR New Zealand Opera and has recently been made a Resident Artist for the company. He appeared in Opera Otago’s production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte last year and has toured the country with Operatunity in 2009, as well as appearing as a member of the Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus in both L’Italiana in Algeri and Eugene Onegin this year.
The three singers will present a varied programme of both opera and song. Wendy Dawn will sing arias by Handel and songs by Richard Strauss and de Falla’s Seven Popular Spanish Songs. Amelia will sing songs by Mahler and Canteloube and Puccini’s popular aria ‘Chi il bel sogno di Doretta’ from La rondine. Matthew will sing Lilburn’s Sings Harry and an aria from Wagner’s Tannhäuser. Additionally each will present a Mozart aria and there will be duets and trios.
They will be accompanied by the highly experienced, Emma Sayers. Emma is a Lecturer in Piano and an accompanist at the New Zealand School of Music.
It will be a great night of fine music by three outstanding singers and continues the Opera Society’s commitment to supporting younger singers.
Submitted by NZ Opera News on November 2, 2009 - 18:24.
The New Zealand Opera Society Inc. is pleased to announce that the Opera Grant inaugurated last year will continue in 2009 and will be awarded to an opera project which enhances the art form in New Zealand and reflects the Society’s national status.
This grant is open to all New Zealand opera practitioners in all forms, including singers, technicians, pianists, conductors, opera groups, composers and writers. This year it will be worth up to $5,000.
The overall aim is to raise the national profile of the Society.
The Society is now seeking applications for projects planned for 2010.
Founded in 1979 the New Zealand Opera Society was established to support opera, opera performance and singers throughout New Zealand. Over the years the Society has supported many young singers, including many who have gone on to work professionally, Vocal Competitions and Opera and Singing Schools. In recent times grants have been given to Sirius Opera of Wellington, Canterbury Youth Opera, Opera Otago and NIMBY Opera. It also produces a monthly magazine for members, New Zealand Opera News, currently the only opera focused journal in Australasia, which covers operatic activity at home and abroad. Amongst the Society’s other activities are monthly screenings of opera DVDs in both Auckland and Wellington, and live concerts.
Download application form (Adobe PDF - 192 KB)
Submitted by Te Wano on April 16, 2009 - 08:07.
my husband has a wonderful tenor voice which he has done nothing with although in his earlier years he sang a lot pop modern songs on stage and TV in perth, we live in kaitaia now ,every now and then I hear this most beautiful voice singing out over the garden so have decided its now time to do something about it and share him with NZ . Help! what do we do. He is constantly practising with his phrasing pitch and breathing.
Submitted by katej.webber on January 18, 2009 - 09:49.
I have recently inherited a large collection of Opera albums from my Aunt - I mentioned once that I liked an album we were listening to and now I have all of them :)
I'm looking to sell or donate them, I really don't need this many records :)
I would be happy to provide a full list of all the albums I have, either here or by fax or email. (it might take a little while to compile the list)
3/4 of them are stored in proper record 'suitcases'(?) and the rest are kept upright in a cupboard so they are in great condition
Please post a reply if you are (or you know someone who might be) interested
Thanks
Kate
Submitted by NZ Opera News on July 31, 2008 - 19:02.
In the 2006-07 season, the Metropolitan Opera launched Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD, a series of performance transmissions shown live in high definition (HD) in movie theatres around the world. The series expanded from six to eight opera transmissions in 2007-08, reaching over 600 participating venues in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia — and now in New Zealand. Don’t miss your chance to see The Met Opera captured live on the big screen, at a participating cinema near you!
During August and September 2008 eight operas will be shown in Auckland, Tauranga, Hamilton, Havelock North, Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin. The operas being screened are Roméo et Juliette, Hansel and Gretel, Macbeth, Manon Lescaut, Peter Grimes, Tristan und Isolde, La Bohème and La Fille du Régiment.
All sessions: Adult $30, Concessions $25 (Senior Citizens/Children Under 16 yrs-old)
For screening times, theatre and booking information visit http://www.nzmetopera.com/
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