Susan Boland, married to John Cameron, is owner and co-founder of Operatunity. She has been a professional singer for 30 years. Her achievements include winning all major aria competitions in NZ, finalist in the Mobil song and Dame Sister Mary Leo competitions and soloists with most of the NZ major companies including New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonic and New Zealand Opera. She has also sung and produced numerous CDs and radio and TV recordings. She is the artistic director of Operatunity. 

John Cameron, owner and co founder of Operatunity has enjoyed a singing career spanning several decades. His primary musical love is the romantic ballad and he gets a chance to sing those in plenty on Operatunity tours. Past singing experience has included pretty much all tenor leads in Gilbert and Sullivan including Nanki- Poo five times plus lead roles in musicals and operas. 

Awarded the Iosefa Enari Scholarship Award for the support and development of Pacific Island Opera Singers in 2004 and was a finalist for the New Zealand Aria competition in 2007-08. One of Operatunity’s New Zealand Three Tenors and has toured with Operatunity in both the Class Act Concert series and the Daytime Concert Series.

Karl has a string of credits to his name having performed lead roles in Les Miserables and recently landing the title role as 'The Phantom' in The Phantom of the Opera. He has recorded an album with good friend Vicki Lee called 'Music of the Night' a gentle mix of popular standards and musical theatre. A career highlight has been touring NZ with Dame Malvina Major for her heartland tours.

Alexandra is a classical music major from the University of Auckland, she has performed in many musicals and operas and she is also a vocal coach. Alexandra belongs to a singing trio called The Velvetines. 

Alex holds a BMus (Performance) from the University of Auckland. Since graduating, Alex has maintained a busy and varied performance career around New Zealand including regular appearances with Operatunity over the past six years. Alex has also performed in the NZ Opera Chorus in their productions of The Flying Dutchman, The Rakes Progress, Otello, An afternoon of Gilbert and Sullivan and Opera at Ayrlies Garden. Other appearances include performing as a soloist with the Pakuranga Choral Society, post-concert entertainment for the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotorua Lakeside Concert and many private events and functions around Auckland. A highlight of his career has been performing as a backing vocalist for Dame Kiri Te Kanawa on several occasions with the Opera Factory ensemble. He has also performed leading and principal roles in The Pirates of Penzance, Curtains, Anything Goes, The Wizard of Oz, Orpheus in the Underworld,  The Impresario, The Daughters of the Late Colonel and Carmina Burana.  

One of New Zealand's most respected sax players and a professional musician for most of his life, Bruce has performed with a wide variety of artists including Tom Sharplin, Sonny Day, Ritchie Pickett, Mark Heke, Peter Morgan and Bunny Walters. Bruce currently performs with Auckland bands Tongue And Groove and The Recliner Rockers.

Bruce also performs on his own playing a wide range of popular instrumentals; he has played at The Auckland Home Show, The Ellerslie Flower Show and Heineken Tennis Open as well as many weddings, restaurants, shopping malls, garden parties and various other events and functions. Bruce has performed in many of Operatunity’s concert tours, including Rock Around The 50’s’, Era Of Swing, Hits Of The 60's and 70's, Quintessentially Kiwi, and Tribute to the Rat Pack.

Cameron is a graduate of both the University of Auckland and the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, where he studied singing, French and Italian.

He was a 2010/2011 PwC Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist for NBR New Zealand Opera and was also a member of the Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus for three years.

Derek is a graduate of Montreal University and has performed with many NZ opera companies including NBR NZ Opera. He is a Freemasons Opera Scholar, proudly supported by Freemasons Roskill Foundation. 

Grant Winterburn is one of New Zealand’s leading keyboard players. His wealth of experience across a wide range of musical genres has made him in demand as a musical director, pianist, accompanist, jazz organ player, session musician and music tutor. Grant is also a Performance Teacher and Professional Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland School of Music.

Jess has successfully toured internationally with world music show “Barrage” for almost 5 years through 5 continents. Her work encompasses classical, world, gypsy, jazz, country, and Celtic music.

Kalanui is a member of the Auckland Chamber Choir, that represented Auckland University overseas in Singapore and the United Kingdom in 2010 under the conduct of Professor Karen Grylls. He is a winner of the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Award for the most promising classical singer at the NZ Singing School 2013 and winner of many other awards.

Lynette is well known to Operatunity audiences. She has performed for over 30 years including principal roles with Auckland Opera, Wellington City Opera and Opera Hawkes Bay along with many local theatre companies.  Lynette’s performing experience extends to TV, Radio and the concert platform. She first joined Operatunity over 10 years ago performing in both Class Act Opera and the Daytime Concert Series and of course was Operatunity’s first staff member when they opened their office.  These days she spends less time in the office but still helps to escort our trips and never misses a chance to perform in our concerts.

Mike Booth (trumpet) has maintained a freelance career performing a wide variety of music. Before locating to Europe Mike performed with Cats Away, Netherworld Dancing Toys, Dave Dobbyn and many other familiar NZ icons.

Returning to NZ early in 2008 Mike is teaching (NZSM Auckland and Wellington; Auckland University; High School itinerate in Auckland and Hamilton), has co-founded the Auckland Jazz Orchestra, and performs with a wide variety of musicians including Tui Jazz award winners Phil Broadhurst, Nathan Haines, and Rodger Fox.

Pat Urlich grew up in West Auckland, studying piano and singing. After leaving school he studied classical singing with Dorothy Hopkins and performed in several musical theatre productions.

He was awarded NZ Male Vocalist of the Year in 1986 as lead singer of hit pop band Peking Man. Since that time Pat has performed in various shows including Porgy and Bess and Messiah.

Pat lives in Auckland where he plays solo jazz and popular classics, accompanying himself on piano and guitar. He also runs a couple of bands and a men's choir.

Paul is a pianist, song accompanist and musical director whose performance interests span classical genres, opera, jazz and musical theatre. Paul grew up in Hawkes Bay where he maintains a teaching practice and is a faculty member of the New Zealand Singing School. Away from the piano Paul’s interests include architectural history and practice, which he studied at Victoria University between 2003 and 2010. Paul has performed with Operatunity since 2013.

Penny Dodd is a pianist, arranger, and conductor with over thirty years experience in NZ, UK and Australia. 

She spent five years as a musical director at Mercury Theatre before moving to London and working in the West End, the National Theatre and in touring shows. She has arranged and conducted Symphonic Rock Concerts with the APO, and seventeen years of Coca Cola Christmas in the Park. Musicals Penny has conducted at the Civic in Auckland include Evita, Chicago, 42nd St, Cats, and Anything Goes. 

Penny has performed with Helen Medlyn in their "hell" cabarets since 1998 and is a well known regular accompanist with Operatunity.

Pete has played at jazz festivals and concerts throughout New Zealand with the Rodger Fox Big Band, One Million Dollars, King Kapisi, Shane Cortese’s band Class of 58, Natalie Cole, Randy Crawford, Steve Smith amongst others. He has performed in Australia, UK, Europe, Asia and USA as well as performances at the Monterey Jazz festival USA and other international festivals. He is a tutor of saxophone, theory and improvisation at the New Zealand School of Music. He was currently voted NZSM, Albany lecturer of the year and on several previous years.

Ray lives in Auckland but was born and raised in Invercargill. Ray developed his immense musical skills on the Bass guitar in various Invercargill groups including the legendary ‘Vision’ band.  He moved to Auckland in 1979 and joined up with Tom Sharplin.  Becoming Tom’s musical director, Ray has performed in Australia, Fiji, Rarotonga and Papua New Guinea.  Ray has appeared many times on television over the years and has worked with almost every Kiwi entertainer over the last 40 years.  In 2009 Ray was indoctrinated into the ‘Southland Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’.

Rebecca Wright has enjoyed an illustrious career in the Musical Theatre industry, most recently performing the lead role of Eva Peron in Hamilton Operatic Society’s successful production of ‘Evita’, where she received critical acclaim. Previous highlights include the title role of ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Mimi’ in ‘Rent’ - both staged at Auckland’s beloved Civic Theatre. Prior to that she lead a stellar cast around the country and learned to roller skate as the lead role of Pearl in the Starlight Express NZ Arena Tour. Other credits include the lead role in homegrown musical, ‘Amour Fantastique’ and the beginning of her professional Musical Theatre career as part of the cast of the NZ tour of ‘Evita’ in 2004. She has starred in both Coca Cola Christmas In The Park and Symphony Under The Stars, was a finalist in NZ Idol back in 2006 and even held the Guinness World Record for Singing Upside Down.

Rebekah Head is a graduate of the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art  (Bachelor of Performing Arts)

She has been involved in Theatre in Education shows touring New Zealand since she was nine and spent 2015 touring Australia with Jack Flash and the Jumping Beanstalk and The Importance of Being Earnest (New Zealand Playhouse)

Her theatre credits include A Midsummer Nights Dream; Cops and Robbers; The Little Mermaid (Court Theatre); Dare To Indulge (NZ Fringe 2016) Robin Hood & Maid Marian (Fantail Farm Productions) and most recently A Very Gloomy Holidays (Whoa! Studios)

She is also a member of the exciting entertainment trio The Velvetines and is thrilled to be performing with them in the upcoming 'Glen Miller and The Andrews Sisters' NZ tour.

Robert graduated from the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Arts (NASDA) gaining a Bachelor of Performing Arts.

Since then he has been involved in numerous productions all over New Zealand.

Some highlights include:

‘The Blue Rose’ TV3, 'Action Central' TV3, 'Christmas in the Park' Auckland & Christchurch TV3, ‘ASB Starry Nights' and 'ASB Classical Sparks' for Christchurch City Council. 'Avenue Q' Fortune Theatre and ‘Starlight Express’ NZ Tour for the Stetson Group. 

He is also a guest entertainer for Princess Cruises and is proud to be part of the Operatunity family and looks forward to singing for you all.

Ron has played the piano in dance and jazz bands from the age of 15.  When he was 21, he left NZ and spent many years working as a pianist with jazz, pop and rock, and as a hammond organist in London, Paris and New York. 

From 1990 – 2000 Ron was house band pianist in the Park Royal Hotel, Wellington.  He was a music teacher for C.H.I.M.E.S. Lower Hutt, teaching jazz and popular music harmony and chords etc.  A couple of prominent students included Brooke Fraser and Anna Paquin.

He performed with Princess Cruises throughout the world, working in the orchestra as well as smaller groups and as a solo artist before returning to New Zealand in 2012, settling in Auckland.

Apart from teaching, Ron works as a jazz pianist in various venues in and around Auckland and together with a fellow musician, he runs a Jazz club called JAZZnJOE, holding 10 weekends of jazz throughout winter, featuring Auckland’s most prominent jazz musicians, and always enjoys his five week tours each year with Operatunity.   

Rory Nolan is a singer/actor with vast experience in musical theatre.

Rory has toured with Operatunity since 2013, completing three previous national tours, and is thrilled to be returning to work for the company after several years practising as a corporate lawyer at a large commercial law firm in Auckland.

Previous theatre credits include: Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny in Phantom of the Opera (2016) (Auckland cast - Amici Productions), a leading role in the concept show Home is Where the Art Is (2016) (Rebel Theatre Company),Sky in Mamma Mia! (2014) (Auckland cast - Amici productions), The Artilleryman in Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds (2012), a leading role in Songs for a New World (2011), and a member of the company in Miss Saigon (2011). 

His film and television credits include: Jimmy Taylor in Shortland Street (2014 – South Pacific Pictures), Mike Antonovic in Dear Murderer (2016 - Screentime NZ),  television commercials and voice work for radio, and appearing as a semi-finalist on TV One’s Find a Star Competition.

Rory is the lead singer and songwriter of Auckland-based alternative-country band Elephant Country.

Entertainer, Rutene Spooner is a graduate of the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Arts with a Bachelor of Performing Arts in Musical Theatre. In the final year of his training, Rutene was awarded the position of the 2009/2010 summer intern actor with the professional theatre company, The Court Theatre, in Christchurch. His passion lies in musical theatre however he has been fortunate enough to work professionally throughout New Zealand as a singer, actor and dancer.

Since Graduating, he has been working professionally, touring with various companies like Duffy Theatre Company, NZ Playhouse, Echelon Productions (AUS) and also with Tim Bray Productions based in Auckland.

As a soloist, Rutene has performed to some of New Zealand’s largest audiences. He has featured as a Soloist in TV3s Coca Cola Christmas in the Park and with the likes of the Christchurch Symphony orchestra. He was also a member of the Southern Opera's Solid Energy Ensemble.

Rutene also jumps at the chance to teach. Delivering workshops in Maori Performing Arts, Vocal coaching and Drama. He is delighted to be back, working with the talented team at Operatunity and looks forward to seeing you all once again.

Scot is a freelance singer and actor. He performs frequently with Operatunity, as well as recent engagements with Vicki Millar Creative (I Wish I Learned, Vicki at the Vic Cabaret), NBR NZ Opera (Rigoletto) and Hamilton Operatic Society (The Phantom of the Opera, The Secret Garden). He graduated as a Hillary Scholar from The University of Waikato, and is an alumnus member of the NZ Young Shakespeare Company. Scot was the New Zealand Top Scholar for Drama in 2007.

Suzanne was discovered along with her sister Judy by New Zealand guitarist Peter Posa. The two sisters became regular performers on the New Zealand  television show ‘C’Mon’ in the late 60’s and in 1971 as a soloist, Suzanne was also a regular on the television show ‘Happen In’, having established a name in New Zealand as the blonde member of the popular 60's duo "The Chicks" and then as a solo performer. She travelled to England and soon became one of London’s first call session singers, singing on albums by Chris De Burgh, Art Garfunkel, ShaWaddyWaddy, Cleo Lane, The Walker Brothers and Cat Stevens to name just a few and also performing on tour with Neil Sedaka and Charles Aznavour.  Suzanne performed on many English TV shows including a Lulu Special and a series with Leo Sayer.

Suzanne has been vocal coach for NZ Idol, Stars in Their Eyes, and for New Zealand’s Got Talent. 

Currently Suzanne teaches contemporary vocal technique and stage performance, and is still busy performing as a soloist, and as a member of the well known vocal group “The Ladykillers, with Tina Cross, Jackie Clarke and the The Ladykillers special guest Annie Crummer.

Tizane McEvoy is an award winning actress and singer. She has studied with Francis Wilson and David Harper, and holds a Masters degree in music (performance voice) with first class honours. 
She has performed numerous leading roles in opera and music theatre, in such shows as The Secret Garden, Orpheus and the Underworld,The Telephone, Buddy - The Buddy Holly story, The Pirates of Penzance, Oklahoma! HMS Pinafore, Menopause the Musical, South Pacific and The Sound of Music. Other theatre credits include Oliver!(Auckland Theatre Company), Mikado, Blood Brothers and Mary Poppins (Court Theatre) and Sweeney Todd (Peach Theatre Company)

Tizane has also been a guest soloist with the CSO performing at Last Night of the Proms in 2014 and 2015 Tizane has performed with world class opera stars including Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Simon O'neil, Andrea Bocelli and Teddy Tahu Rhodes at some of New Zealand's premier venues.

Along with performing Tizane also works as a choreographer and musical director. She also performs with her corporate cabaret group The Velvetines and has just released her debut album; Moonfall with Penny Dodd on piano.