News & reviews
Two very special additions to our lineup
Orpheus is delighted to announce that two notable Wellingtonians have agreed to become Vice Patrons. Dr Margaret Medlyn ONZM needs
A very sad day for music in NZ!
With three self-presented concerts and a number of other engagements it’s going to be a busy year for the choir.
Orpheus Choir Wellington launches its exciting 2020 programme
With three self-presented concerts and a number of other engagements it’s going to be a busy year for the choir.
Abbott leads a reflective and dramatic ‘Messiah’
For the last few years the annual ‘Messiah’ has been a NZSO initiative and conducting duties have been shared by a number of Australians and the baroque specialist Nicholas McGegan. This year it was back, for the third time, to Graham Abbott, a conductor who was conducting his 75th performance of the work.
Conductor takes his bow at helm of NZSO with Mahler symphony
The orchestral playing was immensely incisive with the off stage band beautifully managed, and the combined choirs, from their hushed entrance to the blazing finish, were wonderfully taut and confident.
What the critics say
A packed Cathedral was here treated to a concert
of variety and solid achievement…. the choir sang
beautifully, and the halo effect of the Cathedral’s
acoustics suited it ideally.
John Button, Dominion post
…I thought the chorus work among the best I’d ever
heard in a “live” Messiah performance’