Subscription Series
Welcome to Viva Voce's 2008 subscription series. If you’ve never been that fussed on choral music, and find the thought of a choral concert unappealing, then here’s a choir that should completely change your mind.
Viva Voce, now in its 24th year, is one of the longest-lived and most popular chamber choirs in New Zealand. All three of its subscription concerts each year are heavily attended, and by a wide-ranging audience.
Whilst you can book tickets for each concert separately there are many benefits to becoming a subscriber - including ticket price reductions and access to the best seats. If you're not already a subscriber you can easily sign up.
Subscription concerts for 2009 ...
A FANTASY OF FLIGHT
SUNDAY 26 APRIL 5.00PM. AUCKLAND TOWN HALL, CONCERT CHAMBER
Even now that we’ve solved – with the help of Daedalus, da Vinci and the Wright Bros – the problem of getting about in the sky, we still dream of fl ying. Really fl ying, like an eagle, an angel, the wind. Perhaps we’re searching for freedom, grace, lightness, elation... much as we do in singing. So in our fi rst outing of the year, Viva Voce takes you up, up and away in a swirl of partsongs, madrigals, orchestral re-takes and lighter numbers in a journey whose highlights include Brazilian Luciano Lunkes’ beautiful Lasciatemi Fly to Death and the wonderfully evocative Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine by stellar modern American composer Eric Whitacre. A concert in which we’ll make your spirits soar, and then set you down gently.
HUMBLE HENRY
SUNDAY 26 JULY 5.00PM. AUCKLAND TOWN HALL, CONCERT CHAMBER
TUESDAY 28 JULY 7.30PM. AUCKLAND TOWN HALL, CONCERT CHAMBER
We’d already decided to continue our recent series of singlecomposer concerts before realising that our latest victim would be celebrating his 350th birthday this year. But we refused to be put off . In fact, it’s inspired us to devise a concert that includes not only a selection of the superb anthems, odes, part songs and catches of this great choral writer but also (yes!) a semi-staged version of his poignant opera Dido and Aeneas, accompanied by Baroque-style orchestra. A celebration of perhaps the most original and infl uential, yet unassuming, of all English composers – Henry Purcell!
TWELVE DAYS
SUNDAY 13 DECEMBER 5.00PM. AUCKLAND TOWN HALL, CONCERT CHAMBER
With a date of 13 December for our Christmas concert you can imagine how diffi cult it was for the VV Programme Inventor to resist the title “Twelve Days”.....so he didn’t. We’ll be presenting a seasonal variety concert, of the type we haven’t done for a while, blending traditional and popular carols with some of those lighter favourites, and throwing in the odd surprise. A song for each of the days, with a few more for good measure. And yes, we know that the twelve days are meant to start on the 25th, but you’ll get more goodies this way!