WAnderlust

Two days and twenty hours in a car together was all it took for singers Georgia Jamieson Emms and Robert Tucker to come up with their latest venture: the Marlborough Opera Festival.

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Robert and Georgia first met in the New Zealand Youth Choir in 1999. Not long after leaving the choir, they were cast as the ill-fated lovers Fiordiligi and Guglielmo in Opera Otago’s Cosi fan tutte directed by Jacqueline Coats and conducted by Holly Mathieson. Their careers took them to Europe and home again.

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Robert and Georgia were both recently cast in NZ Opera’s The Unruly Tourists, a ground-breaking New Zealand-written production which was sadly thwarted by Covid-19 in early 2022. And it was out of this disappointment, and the afore-mentioned twenty hours in a car, that the Marlborough Opera Festival was born.

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