Tenor singer, finalist in the Caltex Opera scholarships in 1988. He was originally from Dunedin, was educated at Burnside High School, and studied under Flora Edwards at the Wellington Polytechnic Executant Music Course. He was also a member of the National Youth Choir, and of Wellington City Opera. In the 1990-2000s, he worked in the Music Department of the National Library of New Zealand (Some information from Caltex Opera Scholarships finalists' programme 1988, at Eph-B-OPERA-WCO-1988).
Anderson, Christopher, 1966-
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Wellington City Opera :[Programmes, pamphlets and flyers for opera performances, operas...
Date: 1988
By: Wellington City Opera Trust
Reference: Eph-B-OPERA-WCO-1988
Description: Includes: Caltex Oil (NZ) Ltd and Wellington City Opera presents 1988 Caltex Opera scholarships in association with the New Zealand Opera Society and the New Zealand Opera Trust. Pamphlet and entry form (2 copies) Caltex Oil (NZ) Ltd and Wellington City Opera presents 1988 Caltex Opera scholarships in association with the New Zealand Opera Society and the New Zealand Opera Trust. Finalists (Daryn Edmondson, Christopher Anderson, Nadia Bishara, Kerry Henderson, Valerie Wycoff, Matthew Keeton, Vicki Poole, Joseph Christenson); judges (Ronald Maconaghie, Malvina Major, Peter Averi); regional judges (Christopher Doig, Corinne Opie, Timothy Hawley, Alan Foster). State Opera House Wellington, 13 July 1988. Programme (2 copies) The Wellington City Opera presents the 1988 Caltex season at the opera. "Lucia di Lammermoor" (Conductor Patrick Thomas, director Richard Campion, designer Dave Taylor, chorus master Peter Lockwood, musical director Alan Foster, lighting designer Ian Nicholls, choreographer Erica Stephenson; with Malvina Major, Richard Greager, Timothy Hawley, Roger Wilson, Denise Wilson, Revel Rice, Matthew Keeton). State Opera House Wellington, 15 October 1988. Programme (2 copies) Wellington City Opera presents the 1988 Caltex season at the opera. "Il seraglio", by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Conductor Patrick Thomas, director Raymond Boyce, musical director Alan Foster, lighting designer Malcolm Brodie, choreographer Dawn Sanders; with Glenn Winslade, Grant Dickson, Leslie Dorizac, Ian Cochrane, Malvina Major, Patricia House). Wellington, 1 March 1988. programme (2 copies) Quantity: 4 programmes and fliers. Physical Description: Offset prints on booklets and fliers, sizes varying beneath 350 mm. Provenance: One item from the collection of A M Webster, 1999; one donated by Loretta Lander, Wellington, in 2014.
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Poems of solitary delight by Jack Body
Date: 28 August 1987
From: Body, John Stanley (Jack), 1944-2015: Collection
By: Hopkins, John Raymond, 1927-2013; Anderson, Christopher, 1966-; Hornblow, Philip, active 1987
Reference: MST7-2753
Description: Audio recording of 'Poems of solitary delight', a work for orchestra, speaker and tenor. Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under the conductor John Hopkins, with Chris Anderson (narrator) and Philip Hornblow (tenor). For another recording of this work refer to MST7-2737. Title and date transcribed from tape housing. Open-reel received in a Radio New Zealand housing, with spool number 2599. Housing indicates 'tail out'. Quantity: 1 7" reel(s). 12.46 Minutes and seconds. Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.