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05/10/2011
Tragedy, comedy and history underpin 2012 Opera Season
The NBR New Zealand Opera has announced its 2012 Season, revealing an exciting and diverse programme for audiences....
Read full review20/06/2011
Two operas, three murders, four love affairs, and a string of greatest hits
Two one-act operas, with emotive, true-to-life storylines told through passionate and thrilling music....
Read full review14/02/2011
Under 25s: switch off your phones and tap into live performance
The NBR New Zealand Opera is encouraging under 25 year olds to switch off their phones for one night (actually only for a couple of hours) and head to a compelling live performance of Handel’s Xerxes...
Read full review31/01/2011
No castrati in this Xerxes, but plenty of other thrills
"They create sound worlds for Handel’s music that are similar to what audiences would have heard when Handel wrote the music.”...
Read full review10/01/2011
Operatic Oppulence with Trelise Cooper
Prada, Armani, Lacroix, Gaultier, Versace, Dior, Chanel – many of the world’s leading designers have put their creativity to work on costumes for opera, ballet and theatre....
Read full review30/09/2010
Programme of exciting contrasts for 2011 Opera Season
The NBR New Zealand Opera has launched its 2011 Season, revealing a programme of richly contrasting operas...
Read full review16/08/2010
Opera and theatre combine for compelling entertainment
The first of Verdi's three Shakespeare operas, Macbeth is the classic tale of ambition, corruption and bloody revenge, illustrating with shocking clarity the trail of death and destruction caused by a...
Read full review19/07/2010
"Thoughtful and penetrating" production comes to NZ
Down to the last detail, Albery's production of Macbeth is thoughtful and penetrating...
Read full review17/06/2010
Young opera stars given chance to shine
Four young opera singers have been selected to join The NBR New Zealand Opera's PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artist programme....
Read full review12/04/2010
Marriage triumphs, on and off stage
In a case of Life imitating Art, real-life couple Wade Kernot and Emma Pearson take to the stage as Figaro and Susanna....
Read full review08/04/2010
A career opportunity made in heaven
A groundbreaking new scholarship is giving talented and ambitious young New Zealand arts practitioners an unrivalled career opportunity in music theatre....
Read full review22/03/2010
Englishmen give opera a creative new look
For his NZ directing debut in May this year, Aidan Lang has teamed up with fellow Englishman, Robin Rawstorne, to present what they believe to be a first for New Zealand, and perhaps even the world....
Read full review14/10/2009
Vibrant Drama at Heart of Season
The NBR New Zealand Opera launched its 2010 Season today, revealing a programme rich in drama as two masterpieces of the theatre, The Marriage of Figaro and Macbeth, are brought to New Zealand's opera...
Read full review14/09/2009
A Catch 22 Where You Can Win!
The NBR New Zealand Opera has declared war on empty seats in its performances with the implementation of Catch $22...
Read full review12/08/2009
Stars Line Up On Grand Scale
NZ soprano Anna Leese, a rising star of international opera, returns to New Zealand in September to debut as Tatyana, the lead female role in Eugene Onegin....
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