Wanganui Collegiate School is the venue chosen to host the NZ Opera School from 3-15 January each year. The School offers young singers the opportunity to develop their vocal techniques, their language and performance abilities during twelve days of intensive tuition.

Wanganui Collegiate School offers excellent facilities with accommodation, dining room, The Prince Edward Auditorium, Chapel and music rooms. The facilities are excellent for fostering and nurturing the training of New Zealands emerging Opera Stars.

The tutors who are selected to teach at the NZOS are of the very highest standard and come to Wanganui from around the world as well as New Zealand .

The NZ Opera School
If you have never been to a Masterclass before, we urge you to experience a training session in progress. The masterclasses give a greater insight into the development of the human voice, and are great fun!
Bring a friend and you will be invited to enjoy a glass of wine or juice after the masterclass.
The singers have been selected as Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artists of the NBR New Zealand Opera.

The lunchtime recital at our Sarjeant Gallery has proven to be a very popular event and we will be repeating it again this year. The venue and food add to the special ambience as we listen to the recital given by the students of the school.

Each year, another of the highlights is the non-denominational service held in the beautiful Wanganui Collegiate School Chapel. The emphasis throughout is on music and you can be assured that with between twenty and thirty professional singing voices, along with the congregation and the stunning sounds of the beautiful organ, you will be moved. This is an experience not to be missed, so please join us.

And finally, the concert in our Royal Wanganui Opera House is a special experience for the audience as well as for the singers who, over the years keep telling us how they love singing there. Many of the students are already singing professionally but they don’t always get to enjoy as fine a building as this. The concert is a culmination of all they have learned over the last twelve days and they truly deserve our support. WOW is proud to say that we now have visitors from all over NZ who come to Wanganui for this event.