Taonga Moana – A love letter to the oceans
This event will now take place on Sunday 21 March at 7.30pm. If you already hold tickets to this event, you will receive confirmation of the new date and time by email. No action is needed.
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Aotearoa's outstanding national chamber choir, Voices New Zealand, presents a breathtaking musical and visual homage to the beauty and vulnerability of our oceans.
Celebrating our moana as precious taonga with uplifting music from around the globe, this beautiful concert accompanies the flight of the kuaka/godwit, from icy northern seas all the way down to a fragile sanctuary in Antarctica.
Starting in the North with a new work by eclectic Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi about the Arctic Ocean, we encounter whales, turtles and mysterious serpents on this musical journey following the great Māori navigator Ui-Te-Rangiora on his quest to save the oceans. Travelling through Latvia, Canada, the US and Indonesia, we arrive at a sanctuary, the majestic Antarctic captured in a new work by New Zealand’s Warren Maxwell, inspired by his own, personal experiences on the ice.
Conducted by Dr Karen Grylls, with elegant direction and choreography by Arts Foundation Laureate Sara Brodie, Taonga Moana is set to a stunning landscape of projected moving images.
This spectacular theatrical event is an ode to the power and poetry of oceans – essential, now more than ever, to survival on our planet.
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Supported By
With Support From
Platinum Patrons Andrew & Jenny Smith, and Sir Roderick & Gillian, Lady Deane
“Moving, uplifting, and thought-provoking. A very special evening of music indeed.”
“Impressions.... ranged from full blown despair to total joy and delight.”
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