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Picnic benefits from return of opera stars
Amelia Berry wowed last year.
Six of New Zealand’s top opera stars will perform at Auckland Opera Studio’s Matakana Summer Picnic Concert this month.
The event will see the return of favourites, soprano Amelia Berry and tenor Ipu Laga’aia, who performed at the picnic last year. They will be joined by sopranos Amina Edris and Natasha Wilson, bass-baritone Paul Whelan and tenor Oliver Sewell.
They will be accompanied by pianist Claire Caldwell.
Opera Studio director Frances Wilson says one of the positive outcomes of the Covid-19 pandemic is that many gifted singers usually based overseas have returned home to New Zealand
Mountain Scene
January 29, 2021
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
Closed borders are providing an extra boost for next month’s Twilight Opera, the stage for which is a recently-designated ‘garden of national interest’ at Dalefield.
Produced by the Arrowtown Creative Arts Society (ACAS), with Auckland’s Opera Studio, it’ll be the second event of its kind held at Bruce and Margot Robinson’s ‘Birchwood Garden’, at Birchwood Road.
Five of the seven names now signed on for the February 21 concert should be on contract overseas, singing with American and European companies, were it not for Covid.
Following on from last year’s operatic coup, which saw ACAS secure leading opera tenor Simon O’Neill to perform at Arrowtown’s Athenaeum Hall a sold-out performance regarded as one of the best staged in the historic hall the society’s now doubled down.