Anna Pierard
NZSO - Stabat Mater (A Mother's Love)
The NZSO, Voices New Zealand and four extraordinary singers present Rossini’s Stabat Mater and the world premiere of Kiwi composer Victoria Kelly’s response to that work.
Project Prima Volta: A decade of helping teenagers to find their voices
Festival Opera is celebrating 10 years of introducing, training and supporting young people in the opera through the Project Prima Volta community programme in Hawkes Bay. Audio
Project Prima Volta update
Upbeat catches up with Project Prima Volta founder, Anna Pierard, to find out what's been happening recently for the Hawke's Bay youth project. Audio
Fonoti-Fuimaono brothers win the trifecta in DMM Waikato Aria competition
Congratulations to opera-singing brothers Emmanuel, Alfred and Jordan Fonoti-Fuimaono on their competition success. Audio
Festival Opera takes on gripping double bill
Hawke's Bay's Festival Opera starts off this year's Art Deco celebrations with opera's most gripping double bill: Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci. Audio
Out of the mouths of babes: Anna Pierard
Kiwi professional mezzo soprano Anna Pierard and Kathryn Ryan talk about how music can change children's lives. Anna is the co-creator of the Prima Volta Charitable Trust which introduces Hawkes Bay… Audio
Festival Opera to stage one of Verdi's most loved
Festival Opera returns, this year with one of Verdi's most loved. Anna Pierard and John Wilkie discuss the work and why it has come to Napier. Audio
Thank you for the music: changing children's lives
A once failing primary school in a deprived area of West Yorkshire has shot into the top 10% performing schools in England, after rebuilding its curriculum around music. Meanwhile here in New Zealand… Audio
Festival Opera’s Anna Pierard’s five favourites
Festival Opera founder Anna Pierard took time out of her busy Madame Butterfly schedule to discuss some of her favourite pieces of music. Video, Audio
Anna Pierard: Festival Opera
Festival Opera Creative Director previews their season of Donizetti's The Elixir of Love. Audio
Anna Pierard: NZ Soprano and Director
Hawkes Bay Festival Opera Artistic Director speaks about her upcoming performance singing soprano role in NZSO/NZIAF Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular. Audio
Opera star Anna Pierard
Anna Pierard is involved in starting up Festival Opera in Hawkes Bay to delight opera lovers and to help disadvantaged young people in the region. Audio
Anna Pierard and Henare O'Keefe
Festival Opera NZ operatic mezzo soprano and Hawke's Bay community leader on Festival Opera initiative. Audio
The "Valkiwis": singing Wagner
Morag Atchison, Amanda Atlas, Sarah Castle, Kristin Darragh, Wendy Doyle, Lisa Harper-Brown, Anna Pierard, and Kate Spence will sing the roles of the Valkyries in the NZSO's production of Wagner's The… Audio
Eight Months to Mars - Anna Pierard
Anna Pierard's singing career has taken her all over the world, but she's now returned to New Zealand after being based in Spain. Audio
Anna Pierard
NZ soprano performing Messiah with Christchurch City Choir and Auckland Choral Society. Audio
Anna Pierard
NZ soprano playing the role of Hansel in NZ Opera's production of Humperdinck's 'Hansel and Gretel'. Audio
Hansel and Gretel
Fairytale favourite Hansel and Gretel is about to tour the country with an all Kiwi cast under the direction of Michael Hurst. Audio
Anna Pierard and Jose Aparicio
NZ mezzo soprano and Spanish tenor performing Zarzuela! 7:30pm; Thurs 31 Jan; Ilott Theatre, Wgtn. Audio