Auckland's premier opera and ballet theatre, Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre is a 2,139-seat, tiered auditorium that can be configured acoustically for choral performance. Attracting such huge international stars as Prince, Ed Sheeran and Tom Jones, among many others, the theatre is New Zealand’s largest tiered auditorium.

Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre is also the Auckland home of New Zealand Opera and the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

Its approximate reverberation time in choral mode is 1.8 seconds.