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What makes us special?
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A Message from Sue -
What makes our trips special?
John and I started Operatunity Travel 17 years ago. We specialise in seniors’ music and arts tours both in New Zealand and overseas, presenting around 25 trips per year. These can include seeing operas in Italy, to musicals in Australia, to presenting our own music festivals in New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific across a wide range of musical genres.
Our artists who perform in our Daytime Concert Series escort the trips and miraculously turn from attentive hosts by day to stars of the stage by night, performing music concerts in amazing locations all over the world. These include on a chartered paddle steamer on the Murray River, a private concert in Pavarotti’s house in Italy, Cardiff Castle, in a pub in Ireland, in the Waitomo Caves, or our own boat in Doubtful Sound.
Coupled with this we take travellers to see amazing performances like the Verdi Opera Festival in Italy, the Nashville Country Music Festival, musicals in Australia and on Broadway and the West End, André Rieu in Maastricht, Andrea Bocelli, and Michael Bublé to name but a few.
Our seniors’ tours are planned with longer stays rather than moving to a new place each day. The activities planned are senior-friendly, treating you with respect, as adults with a brain and a keen interest in learning about the places you are travelling to but at a pace which is manageable and makes the trip enjoyable.
When you travel with Operatunity you are travelling with like-minded people. Music helps to provide a common bond. Seniors are often put in a position where they feel they are a burden, a nuisance, someone to be tolerated. We want our seniors to feel the opposite. We want them to be themselves, have fun, and enjoy exceptional experiences. We want them to see places they never thought they could. We want them to experience life to the fullest. We want them to forget they are older. We want them to laugh and live. We do this through music, companionship, a high level of care and safe travel.
