Opera Festival

4 days of opera related events.
Music by Mozart, Gounod, Puccini, Strauss, Verdi, Mascagni and others.
Ravishingly beautiful orchestral music, exhilarating chorus music and a selection of arias and duets that draw us into worlds we can only imagine ...

Music and Artistic Director Jason Balla shares a lifetime of experiences on the international opera stage and brings to life some of the most well-known and beloved operatic favourites along with the combined forces of the Nelson Civic Choir and the Nelson Male Voice choir, an orchestra comprised of many of the best orchestral players in the Nelson/Tasman/Marlborough regions and a trio of accomplished opera singers from near and far and with a range of international experience on the operatic stage both nationally and abroad.