Page 7 - Simon Oneill News Today

Global tenor star joins fight to save historic Auckland church for acoustic music centre 10 May, 2021 04:39 AM 2 minutes to read Tenor Simon ONeill who is urging New Zealanders to help buy the historic World War I Soldiers Memorial Church. Photo / Dean Purcell Tenor Simon ONeill who is urging New Zealanders to help buy the historic World War I Soldiers Memorial Church. Photo / Dean Purcell NZ Herald Global tenor star Simon ONeill has added his voice to buy St Davids Church on Khyber Pass in Auc...

Supporters of an Auckland church want to turn the building into a music centre. Supporters of an Auckland church have launched an ambitious fundraising campaign to save it, aiming to raise $1 million in 23 days. St David’s Church, also known as the Soldiers’ Memorial Church, was built on Khyber Pass Rd in 1927 as a “living memorial” to those who died in the war. Friends of the church said they were “blindsided” by news it would be put up for sale following the dissolution of the co...

Fidelio from Auckland, New Zealand. Our friends in Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra are livestreaming many of their concerts this year and are kicking things off on Saturday 8th May with Appropriately, Fidelio celebrates the triumph of freedom over oppression. Music Director Giordano Bellincampi will lead a cast of stellar talent including Simon O’Neill and Kirstin Sharpin. More information about the concert can be found here. Concert Halls are open as normal in New Zealand and APO have been...

On Saturday 8 May the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (APO) will present Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio under the baton of Music Director Giordano Bellincampi and featuring an all-star kiwi cast, led by international opera sensations Kirstin Sharpin and Simon O’Neill. Audiences can look forward to being swept away by Beethoven’s lyrical genius paired against a story of political and ethical resolve. A so-called “rescue opera” inspired by a true story of the French Revolution, Fideli...

Press Release – Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra   On Saturday 8 May the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (APO) will present Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio under the baton of Music Director Giordano Bellincampi and featuring an all-star kiwi cast, led by international opera sensations Kirstin Sharpin and Simon O’Neill. Audiences can look forward to being swept away by Beethoven’s lyrical genius paired against a story of political and ethical resolve. A so-called “rescue opera” inspi...

Ireland’s Grande Dame of singing, Veronica Dunne, has died Dr Veronica Dunne, known to most as Ronnie, made her operatic debut at the age of 21 in Dublin and dedicated her entire life to the art. Veronica Dunne pictured in 2006. Picture: Billy Higgins Mon, 05 Apr, 2021 - 19:14 Michelle McGlynn Tributes have been paid to renowned opera singer, Veronica Dunne, who has passed away at the age of 93. The President led the tributes this evening saying the news "will have deeply saddened all those ...

Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 6:18 am Photo credit: Stephen ACourt BBC Radio 3, which has more than two million listeners, will broadcast six concerts by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Te Tira Pūoro o Aotearoa on its popular Afternoon Concert programme this week. A Week in New Zealand, broadcast 22-26 February, includes performances of works by New Zealand composers alongside classical giants Mozart, Beethoven and more, and New Zealand soloists. The NZSO concerts were performed in Wellingt...

Singing School NZ brings romance to CHB 8 Feb, 2021 10:24 PM 3 minutes to read Soprano Larissa Kent has recently been accepted into the chorus of Opera NZ. CHB Mail Sam Draper performed recently as the Princes evil sidekick Dan Dini in Waipawa M&Ds pantomime, Cinderella. Soprano Larissa Kent has recently been accepted into the chorus of Opera NZ Bringing a bouquet of romantic songs to Waipawa on Valentines Day will be singers from Singing School New Zealand who will be in concert at the Central...

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 Febru...

Local Focus: Founder reflects on NZ Opera School and Opera Week success 21 Jan, 2021 05:10 PM 4 minutes to read Future looks bright for Whanganui opera. Made with funding from NZ On Air. Video Journalist Whanganui, Manawatū and Taranaki, NZH Local Focusgeorgie@localfocus.nz Its been another successful year for the NZ Opera School. The summer school has been a January fixture in the Whanganui calendar for almost three decades. The school started in 1994, founded by Donald Trott (ONZM) who is al...