CONCERTS & NEWS
Paco Peña
Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall
17th April, 2026, 8pm
$76.46 - $100.93
Tickets:
https://www.ticketmaster.co.nz/paco-pena-flamenco-in-concert-auckland-17-04-2026/event/2400632493CC12A9
17th April, 2026, 8pm
$76.46 - $100.93
Tickets:
https://www.ticketmaster.co.nz/paco-pena-flamenco-in-concert-auckland-17-04-2026/event/2400632493CC12A9
Paco Peña is internationally acclaimed as the greatest living exponent of flamenco guitar. For over five decades, he has transformed the way audiences across the globe experience this most passionate of art forms. To see him perform is to witness flamenco at its purest—alive, uncompromising, and utterly captivating.
Rooted in the culture of Andalucía, flamenco blends centuries of song, dance, and rhythm into a powerful expression of human emotion—grief and joy, struggle and celebration, passion and hope. In Peña’s hands, it becomes both profoundly Spanish and universally moving, resonating with audiences whether or not they know its traditions.
Each concert begins with Peña’s spellbinding solo guitar and expands into a full flamenco experience with singers, dancers, and musicians, igniting the stage with fire, virtuosity, and soul. More than a performance, Paco Peña: Flamenco in Concert is an invitation to feel the heartbeat of Andalucía.
Rooted in the culture of Andalucía, flamenco blends centuries of song, dance, and rhythm into a powerful expression of human emotion—grief and joy, struggle and celebration, passion and hope. In Peña’s hands, it becomes both profoundly Spanish and universally moving, resonating with audiences whether or not they know its traditions.
Each concert begins with Peña’s spellbinding solo guitar and expands into a full flamenco experience with singers, dancers, and musicians, igniting the stage with fire, virtuosity, and soul. More than a performance, Paco Peña: Flamenco in Concert is an invitation to feel the heartbeat of Andalucía.
Concierto de Aranjuez
Jiji with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Auckland Town Hall
Date: Thursday 31st of July 2025, 7.30pm.
Conductor Pablo González
Guitar JIJI
Turina Danzas fantásticas
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Falla La vida breve: Interlude & Dance
Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Suites Nos.1 and 2
Programme Notes
Your Spanish adventure starts here! After Turina’s evocation of the sun and the limitless blue sky, South Korean guitarist JIJI plays Rodrigo’s evergreen concerto, much loved for its ravishing slow movement.
Falla’s opera La vida breve tells of the life and love of a gypsy girl. In his ballet of village life, the miller’s wife is pursued by the oafish magistrate whose official headgear gives the piece its title. When she outwits him, everybody dances an exuberant jota, castanets blazing.
Date: Thursday 31st of July 2025, 7.30pm.
Conductor Pablo González
Guitar JIJI
Turina Danzas fantásticas
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Falla La vida breve: Interlude & Dance
Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Suites Nos.1 and 2
Programme Notes
Your Spanish adventure starts here! After Turina’s evocation of the sun and the limitless blue sky, South Korean guitarist JIJI plays Rodrigo’s evergreen concerto, much loved for its ravishing slow movement.
Falla’s opera La vida breve tells of the life and love of a gypsy girl. In his ballet of village life, the miller’s wife is pursued by the oafish magistrate whose official headgear gives the piece its title. When she outwits him, everybody dances an exuberant jota, castanets blazing.