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Christopher Doig

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Christopher Doig

Tenor Christopher Doig (right) is shown singing the duet 'In the depths of the temple' with baritone Paul Neal in a 1986 Wellington City Opera production of Bizet's The pearl fishers. After an international singing career, Doig returned to New Zealand and became a chief executive for arts and cricket organisations.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

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Peter Walls, Classical musicians – Singers of the 1970s and 1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/45409/christopher-doig (accessed 23 June 2026).

Story by Peter Walls, published 3 June 2014.