Indulge in the wonderful atmosphere of a traditional Chinese tea ceremony.

Come and enjoy a unique cultural experience! 

Celebrate the first day of Lunar New Year 2020, the year of the Rat!

For the first time in New Zealand, Te Tuhi and Auckland Live present the artist's magnificent Chromointerference (1960-2019)...

More than 500 of Tāmaki Makaurau’s best kapa haka performers will contend in a fierce competition to represent Auckland at...

A topical new play, by award-winning writer Aroha Awarau and directed by Jennifer Ward-Lealand, about the gay panic defence –...

The APO concert season blasts off with seven minutes of simple, uncomplicated fun, courtesy of Shostakovich’s helter-skelter...

Giordano Bellincampi opens the New Zealand Herald Premier Series with a sparkle of trumpets in Bach’s cheerful Suite, which...

The centrepiece of this concert features our very own principal flute, Melanie Lançon and principal harp, Ingrid Bauer, who...

Join APO for their 2021 season for a performance of The Classicist - Right from the very first note of his very first...

After the revolutionary Third Symphony, the ‘Eroica’, Beethoven returned to his Classical roots. Lithe and sophisticated, the...

It’s said that when Beethoven became deaf, the music he missed above all was birdsong. The Pastoral Symphony is a tender...

Enjoy this performance of The Radical as part of the APO's 2021 season 

‘Once upon a time there was a prep school boy,’ wrote Britten. ‘There was one curious thing: he wrote music, reams of it.’...

Ross Harris is an artist of deep integrity and powerful imagination. He’s also an old friend of the APO, which has given the...

Rodrigo’s elegant concerto was inspired by the royal gardens in the city of Aranjuez, and it summons up the dignified...

The Overture is hugely popular, but the opera it precedes itself is very infrequently heard. A shame, as William Tell crowned...