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, and one of our best yet productions.
This year’s program features a number of amazing artists performing some of opera’s most celebrated showstoppers – Nessun dorma, The Doll Song, Lakmé duet, Pearl Fishers’ duet and a bracket from Verdi’s Rigoletto. There is also a Neapolitan Song theme flowing throughout.
The event is supported by the wonderful young players from the Central Coast Chamber Orchestra conducted by Patrick Brennan.
If you'd like a little taste of what to expect at the Opera in the Arboretum, 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!
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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
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