Wellington Comic Opera
Wellington Comic Opera has delighted and amused audiences across New Zealand since 1957. Our productions are done to a professional standard drawing on the region's best singers and actors.
We are an incorporated society. Our legal (and original) name is the Wellington Gilbert & Sullivan Society. We changed to Wellington Comic Opera in 2021.
We have yet to announce our next full production but see below for some photos of our very successful 2023 production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates! and our 2024 songs from the shows concert series "It's a grand night for singing".
Below are a few photos from our July 2024 concert series where fifteen of our performers did selections from My Fair Lady, Hello Dolly, The Music Man, Calamity Jane, Call Me Madam, and State Fair.
It's a grant night for singing
Music director: Lesley Graham
Accompanist: Dayle Anderson
Movement Director: Shirley Kauter
Performers: Kassandra Wang, Gisela de la Villa, Melody Holmes, Rosie Knight, Margaret Mabbett, Antonia Selby, Matilda Wickborn, Kevin O'Kane, David Cox, Ian Graham, Lindsay Groves, Steve Hendry, Yang Liu, Josh Long, and Vincent Wong.
PHOTOS: the team on the Khandallah Town Hall stage
Pirates!
Our most recent season of PIRATES! toured Wellington, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, Raumati, and Palmerston North in May 2023. Directed by the talented Alison Hodge with Music Direction by Michael Vinten, Theatreview described it as "Spiffingly good fun, genuinely rollicking, tuneful, and a super-intelligent update".
Photos of a few of our older (pre-Covid) shows are shown below...
Though we are still getting plans in place for our next production, please email us at wco@wellingtoncomicopera.nz if you would like to either (a) hear about upcoming auditions, or (b) receive information on upcoming productions and ticketing. We would love to hear from you. You can also follow us on our Facebook page.
