Five years of Friday evenings. Five years of champagne, harbourside sunsets and voices that stopped people mid-sip. 🥂 On June 19 we close our final Champagne & Opera at the Hilton Auckland - and what a run it has been! Some of Aotearoa’s most exciting young operatic voices have graced that stage, and the Bellini Bar has never quite been the same. Thank you to everyone who showed up, brought friends, and fell a little more in love with opera over a glass of champagne. One last night. Come and celebrate with us. 🤍 Friday 19 June · 6.30pm · Bellini Bar · Hilton Auckland #NZOperaSchool #NZOS #Alumni #Hilton #Auckland

You've met our alumni. You know what they're up to. 😏 Would be great if you would be NEXT! Applications for New Zealand Opera School 2027 are open. 🔗 operaschool.org.nz/applications/application-form #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #OperaTraining

Boys Night Out is back. 🎉 In August 2020, a bunch of talented lads took over the Auckland Opera Studio stage. Ready to take on the world. Turns out — they did. Now it's 2026, and a new generation steps up. Join Alfred, Nu and Jordan Fonoti-Fuimaono, Ridge Ponini, Sam Mataele, Sam McKeever and Tomarangi Henare with Somi Kim on keys for an evening that might just be the beginning of something very special. Toi toi toi boys — we'll be in your corner. 🤍 Sunday 21 June · Auckland Opera Studio 3 Glenside Crescent Tickets at 🔗 aucklandoperastudio.co.nz #NZOperaSchool #NZOS #Alumni #Auckland #Opera

Thomas Atkins is one of the busiest tenors working right now — and we couldn't be more proud. 🤍 The First Night of the BBC Proms 2026 as tenor soloist in Finzi's For St Cecilia with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The Dream of Gerontius at Suntory Hall in Tokyo with Ivor Bolton and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. A role debut as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus at Opera Holland Park this summer. And a return to the Norwegian National Opera in September for The Rake's Progress — a production he clearly loves. From stage to concert hall, Tokyo to London to Oslo. Thomas is everywhere — and he's magnificent in all of it. #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #Alumni #OperaTraining

Two weeks. Whanganui. The most intensive opera training in Aotearoa — and the launchpad for some of the most exciting careers in opera right now. Applications for New Zealand Opera School 2027 are now open: 🔗 operaschool.org.nz/applications/application-form #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #NZOS2027 #OperaTraining #Aotearoa

❗️ 2 DAYS left ❗️ until you can apply for New Zealand Opera School 2027. June 1st | www.operaschool.org.nz #nzoperaschool #nzos #operatraining #nzopera opera

What you find at the New Zealand Opera School doesn't end when the two weeks of training do. The NZOS whanau stays with you — a community of singers, mentors and music-makers who show up for each other long after Whanganui, through every step of a career. That's not something you find everywhere. Applications for NZOS 2027 open June 1st! Spread the word! #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #OperaTraining #Whanganui

Aotearoa's premiere residential opera training programme. A fortnight. Total immersion into opera training. The kind of focus an aspiring talent needs. APPLICATIONS open June 1st! #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #NZOS2027 #OperaTraining

Most of New Zealand's finest opera singers — the ones now gracing the stages of Covent Garden, the Met, Oslo and many more — once stood exactly where you'll be standing. Right here in Whanganui. At New Zealand Opera School. Be ready. Spread the word. June 1st! #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #NZOS2027 #OperaTraining

❗️ ONE WEEK TO GO until applications for NZOS 2027 open on our website ❗️ www.operaschool.org.nz #nzoperaschool #nzos #operatraining #nzos2027

🎶 Our alumnus Ben Kubiak is Musical Director for Flyby — a new musical which made its world premiere at Southwark Playhouse Borough this April. Critics have called it "deeply ambitious" with "rich melodies" and praising Ben's band for bringing the whole thing to life. From The Enormous Crocodile across the UK and US to a world premiere in London — Ben is doing the work and then some. Bravo, Ben! 📷 Photography by Alex Brenner and Tristram Kenton #NZOS #NZOperaSchool #NZOS #Alumni #OperaTraining

Today in Wellington, something quietly wonderful happened. 🤍 Our founder Donald Trott was awarded the CNZM by the Governor-General of New Zealand — Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit — in recognition of his extraordinary services to opera. We won't say too much. Donald is a man who lets the work speak for itself. But everything this school is, every singer who has passed through Whanganui, every voice that has gone on to grace the big stages — it all traces back to him. To his belief that New Zealand singers deserved world-class training, and that Whanganui was exactly the right place to give it to them. This one's been a long time coming. Congratulations, Donald! #NZOperaSchool #NZOS #DonaldTrott