2022 Season

Verdi, La Traviata

9-16 July 2022

St James Theatre, Wellington

Emma Pearson – Violetta

Oliver Sewell – Alfredo

Phillip Rhodes – Giorgio Germont

Tianyi Lu – Conductor

Sara Brodie – Director

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Audience reached in 2021

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10,500

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About Wellington Opera

Wellington Opera will take audiences on an exciting journey of musical and theatrical discovery, featuring world-class Wellington and New Zealand artists and creatives working to a sustainable model for producing opera in Wellington, in collaboration with the broader opera scene in New Zealand.

Wellington Opera is grateful to the foundations, companies, and private benefactors that have come in behind this important initiative. If would like to join them, please get in touch.

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Wellington Opera will lead the sector as a carbon neutral arts organisation from inception

Wellington Opera thanks the following funders, foundations and donors:

Margaret Doucas Trust

Wellington City Council, Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation, Creative New Zealand, Lion Foundation, Four Winds Foundation, New Zealand Community Trust, New Zealand Opera Foundation, Pub Charity, ONE Foundation, Pelorus Trust

John and Margaret Hunn, Turnovsky Endowment Trust, Adam Foundation, Anonymous x2

C Ferguson, S des Tombe, L Holborow, E McLeay, G & H Hawke, P Ridley-Smith & F Wong, G & H Hawke, A Young, S Perry, A Bushell, N Young, A Mallinson, C Gibbons, J & M Milne, V Breen, G West, A Evans & O Alleyne, S Rinaldi