One of the things we love most is following our alumni and seeing where life takes them. 🤍 After attending NZOS most recently in 2026, tenor Ivan Zhang has had quite a year. Soloist for Bach, Schubert and Haydn with Pakuranga Choral, tenor soloist at Nelson City Brass' A Night at the Opera, finalist in the University of Auckland Concerto Competition, and a cultural exchange workshop in Singapore. All in six months. Keep going, Ivan. We're watching. 🎶 #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #Alumni #OperaTraining

🎟️ GIVEAWAY: Win a Double Pass to Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far Walking Whanganui friends, this one is for you. 🤍 Fresh from Brisbane Festival, Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far Walking is coming to the Royal Whanganui Opera House on Friday 16 October at 7.30pm. A powerful bilingual Auckland Theatre Company production following 186-year-old matriarch Tiri Mahana through nearly two centuries of Aotearoa history, from the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi to the present day. A rare opportunity to experience this extraordinary work written by Witi Ihimaera right here at home. We're giving away a double pass. Here's how to enter: ✅ Follow @nzoperaschool ✅ Follow @festivalofdesignaotearoa ✅ Comment below and tell us who would you invite to join you? Tag them! 👇 Winner announced Saturday 10 October. Good luck! 🎶 📷 Photography by Andi Crown

It's closer than you think. 🎶 Opera Returns Home. Auckland. Watch this space. #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #Auckland

Our alumna Libby Montgomery just performed in The Water Mark, RNCM's community opera involving nearly 200 people in its creation and performance. Playing a Victorian schoolteacher, working with children, devising, performing and leaving with a pile of letters and drawings from the kids backstage. This is what a singer can be beyond the stage. So proud of you, Libby. 🎶 #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #OperaTraining #alumni 📷: Robin Clewley Photography

Holly Evans is back on our LinkedIn and this one is about the question every young singer asks. 🎶 How do you go from student to professional? Holly's been doing it in Auckland for the last three years and her answer might surprise you... Head to our LinkedIn to read the full story https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-zealand-opera-school #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #OperaTraining #LinkedIn

Bruce Greenfield has been with us since the very first New Zealand Opera School in 1994. 🎹 One of New Zealand's finest accompanists and vocal coaches, formerly Principal Repetiteur and Vocal Coach for New Zealand Opera, official pianist for Government House, and a man who has worked alongside some of the greatest voices this country has ever produced. He keeps coming back to Whanganui. And we keep being grateful. 🤍 #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #NZOS2027 #OperaTraining

One of Aotearoa's most sought-after pianists, winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Accompanist Prize, the Gerald Moore Award, and hailed by The Times for her "breath-taking range of colour, tone and inflection", Somi Kim brings all of that extraordinary artistry to Whanganui every January. 🎹 We are so lucky to have her. 🤍 #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #NZOS2027 #OperaTraining

One of the most dedicated members of our faculty and one of the warmest presences in the room. We are so grateful to have David Kelly back with us again in January. 🤍 #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #NZOS2027 #OperaTraining

Holly Evans is back on our LinkedIn this week and this post takes us right back to the beginning. 🎶 Eight years old. A school audition. The start of something that would shape everything. Head to our LinkedIn to read the full story: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-zealand-opera-school #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #OperaTraining #LinkedIn

Meet Jacqui Coats, our Director of Stagecraft for NZOS 2027. 🎭 Jacqui knows this school well and she keeps coming back. The results, as she says, always speak for themselves. We cannot wait for January. 🤍 #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #NZOS2027 #OperaTraining #whanganui

You loved Opera Fridays. We've been quietly working on something much bigger: a full cultural programme, all year round, in the heart of the city. Every week. Every season. Every reason to celebrate. Details coming very soon. 🤍 #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #Auckland #JWMarriott

Holly Evans, the soprano taking over our LinkedIn, is back with a new post this week. 🎶 This one goes right back to the beginning. She was 15, sitting in the Isaac Theatre Royal with her mum, watching Madama Butterfly. She didn't understand a word of Italian. She couldn't look away. Every opera singer has that moment — when they just know this is what they want to do with their life. Holly is sharing hers. Head to our LinkedIn to read the full story: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-zealand-opera-school #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #OperaTraining #LinkedIn