Due to impact of COVID on our touring ensemble this week, we regretfully have to cancel this tour.

Ticketholders will be contacted and a full refund offered.

“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” – W.H. Auden

We are head over heels with opera, wide eyed for Monteverdi and smitten for Britten. VOICES LOVE OPERA is coming to southern stages in Invercargill, Dunedin and Oamaru. Some of New Zealand’s best singers feature in this operatic romp, exploring both the triumphs and the heartbreaks of love. Straight from the opera stages comes this romantic tour-de-force involving Carmen, Madame Butterfly, Lucia de Lammermoor and other operatic favourites.

Wild, surprising, jubilant, funny and sometimes disastrous, this story was created and directed by well-known opera director Jacqueline Coats. Through well-loved arias, duets and choruses, the story is being told by a 16-strong Voices ensemble joined on stage by soloists Morag Atchison (Soprano), Catrin Johnsson (Mezzo Soprano), Andrew Grenon (Tenor), and Chris McRae (Bass) accompanied by Rachel Fuller.

Join us for this uplifting concert and you will recognise the songs from L’Orfeo, Dido and Aeneas, Gloriana, The Tales of Hoffman, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, The Merry Widow, Madame Butterfly and more.

Soprano Morag Atchison

Tenor Andrew Grenon

Bass Chris McRae

Rachel Fuller