Opera in the Arboretum 2024

Saturday 23rd March 2024

3:00pm - 5:30pm

Welcome to our 17th Opera in the Arboretum charity event on Saturday 23rd March 2024. Updates will be posted here and on our Facebook page.

Beautiful music, beautiful voices, beautiful setting.

Following an enforced break due to COVID, 'Opera in the Arboretum' is back, and the 2024 performance will be our 17th production.  Take 3 minutes to watch this beautiful video, then click on the About menu, and buy your tickets for 23rd March 2024.

Special thanks to everyone who helped with this project: Our stunning sopranos from Opera Australia, Jane Ede - Soprano and Clarissa Spata - Soprano; Super talented film maker Benjamin Fraser; Joan Redmond Rotary Club of Woy Woy President who facilitated the idea at every turn; Pearl Beach Progress Association; Pearl Beach Arboretum; and Everglades Country Club. We dedicate this project to John Greenway, the original founder and organiser of Opera in the Arboretum.
 
Can't wait to see you all again in 2024!
Michaele x
Artistic Director Michaele L Archer
 

Sull'aria from Le nozze di Figaro - Mozart

Sopranos: Jane Ede and Clarissa Spata
 
Produced by Rotary Club of Woy Woy with Michaele L Archer, Artistic Director, Opera in the Arboretum
Filmed and edited by Benjamin Fraser at Crommelin Native Arboretum, Pearl Beach NSW
Vocals recorded at Crash Symphony Productions
Mastering by Damien Gerard Studio
Special thanks to Everglades Country Club (joint sponsor) and Pearl Beach Progress Association
In memory of Rotarian John Greenway, Founder/ Organiser of Opera in the Arboretum 2005-2019

About the event

Opera in the Arboretum is an open-air, all-weather, BYO picnic style annual charity event hosted by the Rotary Club of Woy Woy.
 
This community event brings together a star-studded line-up of artists to perform Opera’s much loved arias, duets and ensembles in the coastal rainforest setting of the Crommelin Native Arboretum in Pearl Beach on the Central Coast. This unique venue is an easy 60 to 90 kilometres drive north of the Sydney CBD, and about 80 kilometres south of the Newcastle CBD.
 
Since the event's inception in 2005 hundreds of thousands of dollars have been raised for deserving causes, charitable organisations and Rotary humanitarian projects.