2022 Guest Appearances
Saturday 20 August 2022 (7.30pm) Michael Fowler Centre
Robert Schumann Cello Concerto
Inbal Megiddo cello
Felix Mendelssohn — Midsummers Night’s Dream (complete)
Barbara Paterson, Michaela Cadwgan (sopranos)
Orpheus choir female chorus
Saturday 3 December 2022 (7.30pm) Michael Fowler Centre
Scenes from Goethe’s “Faust”
Emma Pearson, Wade Kernot, Christian Thurston, Jared Holt, Michaela Cadwgan, Barbara Paterson, Margaret Medlyn, Maaike Christie-Beekman, Jamie Young
- Orpheus Choir Wellington
- St Mark’s Schola Cantorum
9 and 11 December 2022, Te Rauparaha Arena, Porirua
Ihitai’avei’a Star Navigator
Co presented by NZ Opera and Orchestra Wellington
This beautiful and haunting new work by composer Tim Finn, co-composer Tom McLeod, with Tahitian monologues by Célestine Hitiura Vaite, tells the story of Tupaia, the Tahitian star navigator who sailed with James Cook, on the maiden voyage of the Endeavour in 1769. Ihitai’Avei’a. Star Navigator explores the relationship between two master mariners, each from vastly different worlds, both far from home and unable to find their way into each other’s world.