2025

ChorusFest 2025

Dates: 2nd – 3rd August 2025

Workshop 1: Saturday 2nd August, 11 am – 3 pm at Hanover Hall (65 Hanover Street, Dunedin)

Movement Workshop with Emma Donaldson: Saturday 2nd August, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm at OUSA building (640 Cumberland Street, Dunedin)

Workshop 2: Sunday 3rd August, 1.30pm – 5.30pm at Hanover Hall (65 Hanover Street, Dunedin)

5:30 pm Complimentary supper

Informal concert @ 7:00pm at Hanover Hall (65 Hanover Street, Dunedin) ; Entry by Koha

An Enchantment of Nightingales

A one-act theatre piece by John Drummond, created from an idea by Claire Barton

19, 20 and 22 March 2025

2024

ChorusFest – Demonstration Concert

Sat, 19 Oct 2024, 7:30pm – 9pm 

Intimate Opera

Conversazione:

Jonathan Lemalu talks with John Drummond

Join John Drummond as he sits down with Jonathan Lemalu for an in-depth discussion; delving into the intricacies of his career, the highlights and the lessons he has learned along the way.

Sun 7th Jul 2024, 2:00 pm at Fable Dunedin, 310 Princes Street, Dunedin

Dunedin Fringe Festival 2024

The Trapeze Artists : a chamber opera by Anthony Ritchie ; created by Louise Petherbridge, QSO

17, 18 and 19 March 2024

2023

Soirée

November 1 2023

Celebrate Opera, Otago!

24 and 27 August 2023

Dunedin Fringe Festival 2023

An Incomplete Education (Une éducation manquée) by Emmanuel Chabrier

22, 23 and 25 March 2023

2022

The Mansfield Trilogy by Dorothy Buchanan

10 and 11 September 2022

The Woman at the Store – Directed by Lisa Warrington, Musical Direction by Mark Wigglesworth

Miss Brill – Directed by Clare Adams, Musical Direction by Sandra Crawshaw

The Daughters of the Late Colonel – Directed by Kim Morgan, Musical Direction by David Burchell

Road to the Lexus

27 March and 10 April 2022

Concert one (March 27 2022) featured Olivia Pike, Sarah Hubbard, Erica Paterson, Calla Knudson and Marcus Millad, accompanied by Andrew Crooks.

Concert two (April 10 2022) featured Lillian Gibbs, Rhiannon Cooper, Emma McClean, Scott Bezett, Ingrid Fomison-Nurse and Cathey Highton-Sim, accompanied by Andrew Crooks and John Van Buskirk.

2021

17-25 September 2021

Goldilocks à la Mozart by William Green

Schools Tour, 28 Jun-02 Jul 2021

2020

The Baritone Must Die! A Notflix Original

20-21 Nov 2020

Soirée, 22 Oct 2020

Suor Angelica
Postponed due to COVID-19

4 – 7 June 2020, St Hilda’s Collegiate School Chapel

2019

The Telephone, Menotti
And Other Christmas Cheer!
13 – 14 Dec 2019

Stage Director: Claire Barton

Principal Cast:
Ingrid Fomison Nurse (Lucy England)
Scott Bezett (Ben Upthegrove)

Click here to read the Review for The Telephone

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The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan
3 – 10 Aug 2019

Stage Director: Bryan Aitken
Music Director: John Buchanan
Assistant Stage Director: Mārama Grant
Repetiteur / Pianist: Mike Crowl

Principal Cast:
John Milligan (Mikado)
James Adams (Nanki-Poo)
Alex Derbie (Ko-Ko)
Scott Bezett (Pooh-Bah)
Kieran Kelly (Pish-Tush)
Erica Paterson (Yum-Yum)
Emma McClean (Pitti-Sing)
Rhiannon Cooper (Peep-Bo)
Claire Barton (Katisha)

Click here to read the Reviews for The Mikado

2018

Little Red Riding Hood, Seymour Barab
4 – 5 Dec 2018

Stage Director: Bryan Aitken
Music Director: David Burchell

Principal Cast:
Erica Paterson (Little Red Riding Hood)
Claire Barton (Grandmother)
Scott Bezett (the Wolf)

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Don Giovanni, Mozart
18 – 25 Aug 2018

Stage Director: John Drummond
Music Director: Jonathan Drummond

Principal Cast: in order of appearance
Adam Jon (Leporello)
Ingrid Fomison-Nurse (Donna Anna)
Robert Tucker (Don Giovanni)
Robert Lindsay (The Commander)
Ben Madden (Don Ottavio)
Olivia Pike (Donna Elvira)
Josephine Chan (Zerlina)
Scott Bezett (Masetto)

2017

The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan
12 – 19 Oct 2017

War Hero, John Drummond
22 – 29 July 2017

2016

A Christmas Carol, Philip Norman
26 Nov – 4 Dec 2016

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List of Past Productions – Opera Otago