Opera Factory

Our next night at Cafe du Marche is on Friday 5th June and tickets are going fast! Singers include Nathan Hauraki (Tenor) and Antonia Brightwell (Soprano). Come and enjoy a relaxed night of good food and music. All bookings through Cafe du Marche with details below.

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Café Du Marché Casual French and Mediterranean dining.
Enjoy a coffee & bite amongst our gorgeous chandeliers.

A full crowd tonight at Cafe du Marche featuring Holly Evans, Jack Doyle and Maia Amosa with Rosemary Barnes at the piano. An exciting night as we get to hear two of the Kiri Te Kanawa Song Quest semi-finalists..Holly and Jack... and wish them both all the very best. As a little gesture from Sally and the Opera Factory library we gifted them some song albums to add to their collection!

Congratulations to the following New Year's honours recipients - they have been supporters of Opera Factory over the years!

CNZM - Mr Donald Trott (ONZM) - for services to opera. A huge contribution over many years since the 70s in Auckland with Sally at Perkel Opera, and then guiding the subsequent opera companies through many iterations; a long term supporter of Sally and Opera Factory and more recently in Wanganui running the NZ Opera School each summer. A true supporter and advocate for the operatic art - thank you Donald!

ONZM - Elizabeth Whiting - costume designer extraordinaire for theatre, dance and opera. Many young and upcoming singers have been costumed by Elizabeth over the years when they joined NZ Opera. I still have one of her early sketches from my first professional opera and she has always been generous in loaning or hiring costumes to Opera Factory when we had specific or grand requirements!! Thank you Elizabeth.